Release Datum: Nov 23, 2018
The album, which follows Furnaces, his 2016 album for Polydor, sees Ed Harcourt add another new string to his multi-faceted musical bow. Something of a left-turn after its busy, big-screen, somewhat under-appreciated predecessor, it sees the supremely versatile singer, writer and
Talking about the gestation of the album, which was written and recorded at his ‘Wolf Cabin’ studio in Oxfordshire Harcourt said, “I knew I wanted to buy a new piano.
“So from around February I’d get up on the cold mornings, have a coffee after the kids had gone to school, then come in here, shut the door, just play…with the snow coming down outside the window. When I found something I thought worked, I’d play it over and over again…”
With the piano accompanied on occasion by Ed’s wife Gita Langley’s violin and Amy Langley’s cello yet in some phases as minimal as Furnaces was maximal, the album carries you through deceptively calm waters while nonetheless stirring up your stormiest inner passions. Reflective, but never passive it’s a quiet storm and a curveball which will gently woo you rather than boisterously bundle you over.
“It’s not contrived, this. It’s come from the heart. I feel like someone might enjoy it on headphones while walking around an unfamiliar city for the first time.” It’s a foreign affair, but only if you’ve never noticed the depth and diversity that’s always infused Ed Harcourt’s music.
Diving Bell | 4:41 | $2 |
Wolves Change Rivers | 3:50 | $2 |
Duet For Ghosts | 3:42 | $2 |
Empress Of The Lake | 3:38 | $2 |
Keep Us Safe | 4:00 | $2 |
Faded Photographs | 1:55 | $2 |
For My Father | 3:10 | $2 |
For My Mother | 2:40 | $2 |
Beneath The Brine | 3:19 | $2 |
There Is Still A Fire | 2:59 | $2 |
Circling Red Kites | 2:47 | $2 |
Whiskey Held My Sleep To Ransom | 3:36 | $2 |