Hayden Thorpe will launch new album ‘Ness’ on September twenty seventh.
The previous Wild Beasts singer is on a solo roll proper now, and for his subsequent endeavour Hayden Thorpe goals to soak up a literary affect. Incoming LP ‘Ness’ was prompted by best-selling creator Robert Macfarlane’s e book of the identical title.
The music cycle takes you to Suffolk’s Orford Ness, the previous Ministry of Defence weapons improvement website utilised throughout each World Wars and the Chilly Warfare. In 1993 the Nationwide Belief acquired the positioning and left it to re-wild, nature reclaiming a spot of wartime paranoia.
Uniquely atmospheric, Orford Ness frames the songs on the album. Lead single ‘They’ is on-line now – opening with a spoken phrase studying, it then turns into a fusion of effervescent, bucolic instrumentation and skittering electronics.
The monitor was written after Hayden Thorpe’s first go to to the positioning with Robert Macfarlane, the place the 2 rd Ness with Macfarlane the place they ate lunch “beside bomb craters and destroyed buildings” in a spot the place “inside residing reminiscence an Armageddon was being ready”.
“For me, it’s Ness in summertime,” says Thorpe. “Filled with the lightness and looseness of a blue afternoon. Musically talking, it’s a riff on our expertise of time. The interweaving polyrhythms and delays are a play on that.”
The video, directed by Hayden Thorpe and Andy King and filmed at Orford Ness, could be discovered under.
Tracklisting:
1. Merman
2. WTF Is That?
3. In The Inexperienced Chapel
4. It
5. Gull
6. He
7. Hagstone
8. She
9. Track Of The Bomb
10. They
11. V.
12. As
13. Nearer Away
