Label: Rough Trade
Released 1/26/2024
In a career that has taken him from the slate-mining towns of north-west Wales, down to the expat communities of Patagonia, up to the Mandan tribe of the Great Plains of North America and across to the Tuareg rock groups of the Saharan Desert, Gruff Rhys, one of Britain’s most beloved and successful singer-songwriters, has always been willing to follow an opportunity wherever it may lead him. And so it was that Gruff and his band – Osian Gwynedd (piano), Huw V Williams (double bass) and former Flaming Lips drummer turned Super Furry Animals archivist Kliph Scurlock (drums) – piled into a van to La Frette Studios, a recording facility installed in a 19th-century manor house on the outskirts of Paris, to record Sadness Sets Me Free in just three days.
Track listing:
- Sadness Sets Me Free
- Bad Friend
- Celestial Candyfloss
- Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)
- On The Far Side of the Dollar
- They Sold My Home To Build A Skyscraper
- Peace Signs
- Cover Up The Cover Up
- I Tendered My Resignation
- I'll Keep Signing