Good Grief shall be Bernard Butler’s first solo album in 25 years

Bernard Butler has revealed particulars of his new studio album, Good Grief.

His first solo LP in 25 years, the songwriter and producer has been busy working with a wide range of completely different artists throughout that point. Notable initiatives embody two seminal albums with people musician Sam Lee, a Mercury nominated venture with actor Jessie Buckley in addition to working with Bert Jansch and Ben Watt from The whole lot However The Lady, The Libertines, Tough and an eight-million promoting, Grammy-winning document with Duffy.

Butler says: “For a very good whereas I used to be scarred and I used to be scared. I used to be fortunately distracted and joyously concerned with a lot music. I realised simply being there was greater than I had ever hoped for.

“I gave loads to different folks, however realised that my story was outlined however what I used to be, fairly than what I’m. I set myself a modest industrial aim, an expectant artistic one: carry out to 10 folks with out being bottled, then discover 11 the subsequent evening. Thus started the undoing of my very own embarrassment. I might write as I believed and sing as I wrote till the bottles fly. And so, the songs arrived.”

Escape is the dream…

Bernard booked himself right into a rehearsal house in Holloway each Wednesday afternoon for months, simply him, a guitar, a microphone, and his new songs.  The primary fruit of those periods is the brand new single Camber Sands. “For years and years I’ve drawn straight strains from North London to each shoreline I might see,” he says. “To life-worn Londoners escape is the dream and return probably. The story I discovered was not the ocean however the journey. Camber Sands, Mersea Island, Dunwich, or a dozen extra horizons of chance, the ocean and the seawalls, and the infinite return to face the town. Camber Sands is a love tune – we flee the previous, the current, ourselves, to outlive, to defy. The loneliest music of the resolute, the half-light and the saddest tunes.”

Hearken to Camber Sands under:

Metropolis to coast

Spherical circle reveals with buddies Norman Blake and James Grant throughout Scotland gave Butler the style for venturing again out on stage, and whereas writing with Jessie Buckley for the Mercury Prize nominated For All Our Days That Tear The Coronary heart album, Bernard tucked away his personal discoveries and continued the journey as soon as Buckley returned to the silver display. Confronting his personal songwriting course of, he wrote phrases down, away from the safety of his guitar, earlier than carving music across the strains. 

Good Grief finds Bernard Butler proudly owning three many years of labor, free to carry out, bookended by wildly contrasting experiences of loss, pleasure, and bewilderment. The album is a journey from metropolis to coast and again, and between it, a complete spectrum of human emotion.

Good Grief Tracklisting

Camber Sands
Deep Feelings
Residing The Dream
Preaching To The Choir
Fairly D
The Forty Foot
London Snow
Clear
The Wind