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Singer-songwriter, maar daar is zeker niet alles mee gezegd. Luister en geniet. Net even anders.

20 albums and 25 years into her recording career, Thea Gilmore has finally decided to release a self-titled album which lands on UK shores on October 6th 2023. The album was entirely written, played and produced by Gilmore.  “That’s why this is my first self-titled album,” she explains. “On my last album I changed my name to Afterlight and drew a line under everything I’d done up to that point. Not to invalidate it, but to put an end to the ‘before’. It was a very inward-looking record that was rooted in the darkness of everything that happened to me up to 2019, whereas this album has its head up and is eyeing the world as a challenge. It’s a logical forward motion – the emergence from the shadows of Afterlight into the relative lightness of Thea Gilmore – in a renewal of my vows to music; my first love. In a weird way it feels like a debut of sorts so it made sense to make it eponymous.”

Across 12 tracks Thea “delves into the cracks between the paving slabs of life’s big themes” (we have not come across that analogy before but we like it); songs include ‘She Speak In Colours’, written as part of BBC Radio 2’s critically lauded 21st Century Folk project; while ‘The Next Time You Win’ with its simple piano figures and its collage of spoken and sung lines seems to both accept the way the world works while reaffirming the pledge to stand on the frontline of change. Thea Gilmore will be available on all digital platforms as well as CD and Vinyl. Exclusive bundles are also available on the official store here.

Gilmore will be touring the album, playing London’s Union Chapel on 12th October and then an 11-date tour around the UK in early 2024. Fans who pre-order the Thea Gilmore album on the official store will get access to a ticket pre-sale that will run for 48 hours from Wednesday 5th July. General on sale will open on Friday 7th July. Tickets can be purchased from here.

Thea Gilmore has worked with and won the admiration of cultural icons such as Bruce Springsteen, Martha Wainwright, John Cooper Clarke, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle and Beth Orton. Neil Gaiman (writer/showrunner of Netflix #1 show, The Sandman) is also a long-standing fan, describing her last album Afterlight (2021) as an “emotional rollercoaster in a musical wrapper… a postmortem with better lyrics, executed by someone who can sing her heart out even as she slices

Tracks:
1. Nice Normal Woman
2. Bones
3. Hope And Fury
4. Unravel Me
5. Ride On
6. The Next Time You Win
7. That's Love Motherfucker
8. The Chance
9. She Speaks In Colours
10. Talking Out Of Tune
11. Home
12. The Bright Service

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1HoyWSgkY