The Quiet in the Land (teaser-trailer)

Here’s a short video teaser-trailer I made for my new album:

The Quiet in the Land

I have a new album I’ll be releasing soon.

It’s called ‘The Quiet in the Land’.

Here’s the gorgeous front cover artwork (designed by Al)

I finished this album a few months ago but I’ve been putting off releasing it. It’s funny, it doesn’t matter how long I do this music lark, I still get fearful about letting other people hear the noise that I’ve made. And in this case there is quite a lot of noise, which is perhaps why I’m feeling a bit reticent.

When I put out my last long-player ‘Each Dirty Letter‘ (which was, to my ears, my most accessible album to date) I had this to say:

“Look, I l know I’ve been doing this with little success for over 10 years, and have at times been unfocused and genre-hopped way too much, BUT when I do focus, and when I get the right people to help me out, this is the kind of music I’m capable of making. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done and I hope it’s the start of something new.”

Well, my new album genre-hops all over the place, sounds NOTHING like my last album and was predominantly written, played, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by me alone.

So much for not being unfocused then.

Most, if not all, of the music I’ve made has felt like something I’ve had to get out of my system, but this album feels even more like that than usual. It’s noisy, angry, experimental, at times poorly recorded and, all in all, pretty frickin’ dark.

And speaking of frickin’, there’s a few choice words on the album as well. So if that’s not your thing then please just avoid it altogether. Normal service will be resumed soon enough… probably.

‘The Quiet in the Land’ will be out on the 14th November 2011.