Gruff Rhys is set to return to Dublin with a show celebrating his forthcoming seventh solo album “Seeking New Gods”out 21.5.2021 via Rough Trade. The Super Furry Animals man will play Dublin’s intimate Liberty Hall, this October. The Super Furry Animal frontman will also make an appearance in Limerick’s finest musical establishment Dolan’s the previous evening.
“Seeking New Gods” was recorded following a US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys).
The typically beautiful art direction is by long-time collaborator Mark James and the record will feature a Mountain Die Cut envelope-style sleeve, numbered Belly band, 2 colour Splatter Vinyl, Flexi Disc and a 10” signed print. The standard LP edition is equally appetizing, featuring the same Mountain Die Cut envelope-style sleeve, Belly band, and dark green vinyl. The CD will be housed within a digipack.
“The album is about people and the civilizations, and the spaces people inhabit over periods of time. How people come and go but the geology sticks around and changes more slowly. I think it’s about memory and time,” he suggests of Seeking New Gods’ meaning. “It’s still a biography of a mountain, but now it’s a Mount Paektu of the mind. You won’t learn much about the real mountain from listening to this record but you will feel something, hopefully.”
“The monochrome has made it look much sharper and stylish (for want of a better word – I don’t think I know what style is!!) like a Japanese 60’s pop show or something!” explains Gruff of the Loan Your Loneliness video. “We added a layer of cloud to add some spot colour and to integrate the album sleeve aesthetic to the video. The colour was always stronger at the very end – I don’t particularly like the brown slippery dinosaurs but love the mammoths and northern lights…. so we bought it back to colour by the end – the narrative being that a soloing guitarist accidentally invented colour TV with sheer exuberance! “
Track listing:
01 Mausoleum Of My Former Self
02 Can’t Carry On
03 Loan Your Loneliness
04 Seeking New Gods
05 Hiking in Lightning
06 Holiest of The Holy Men
07 The Keep
08 Everlasting Joy
09 Distant Snowy Peaks
Album Pre-Order Link: https://gruffrhys.ffm.to/
Gruff Rhys at Dolan’s, Limerick on Friday, 29th October 2021. Tickets on sale Thursday, 1st April at 10am here
Gruff Rhys live at Liberty Hall, Dublin Saturday, 30th October 2021. Tickets €25.00 on sale Thursday, 1st April at 10am from Ticketmaster.ie