BERNARD BUTLER Good Grief (First Edition 2024
UK/EU limited edition 9-track LP pressed on Silver Vinyl, limited to just 700
copies that include an autographed art print inside. Good
Grief is his first new solo album in 25 years and finds
Bernard Butler owning three decades of work, free to perform,
bookended by wildly contrasting experiences of loss, joy, and
bewilderment. The album is a journey from city to coast and
back, and between it, an entire spectrum of human emotion.
Picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed).
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Bernard Butler Good Grief - Silver Vinyl + Signed Print - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record)
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| Tracklisting / Additional Info: |
Good Grief is the first new solo album in 25 years from songwriter and producer Bernard Butler. Between then and now, Butler had ventured into the world of pop songwriting and producing, including two seminal albums with folk musician Sam Lee, a Mercury nominated project with actor Jessie Buckley as well as working with Bert Jansch and Ben Watt From Everything But The Girl, The Libertines, Tricky and an eight-million selling, Grammy-winning record with Duffy.
Of returning to solo work after two and a half decades, Butler says ‘For a good while I was scarred and I was scared. I was happily distracted and joyously involved with so much music. I realised just being there was more than I had ever hoped for. I gave a lot to other people, but realised that my story was defined but what I was, rather than what I am. I set myself a modest commercial goal, an expectant creative one: perform to 10 people without being bottled, then find 11 the next night. Thus began the undoing of my own embarrassment. I would write as I thought and sing as I wrote until the bottles fly. And so, the songs arrived.’
Bernard booked himself into a rehearsal space in Holloway every Wednesday afternoon for months, just him, a guitar and a microphone. The first fruit of these sessions is the new single ‘Camber Sands’, “For years and years I have drawn straight lines from North London to every coastline I could see. To life-worn Londoners escape is the dream and return most likely. The story I found was not the sea but the journey. Camber Sands, Mersea Island, Dunwich, or a dozen more horizons of possibility, the sea and the seawalls, and the endless return to face the city. Camber Sands is a love song - we flee the past, the present, ourselves, to survive, to defy. The loneliest music of the resolute, the half-light and the saddest tunes.’
Round circle shows with friends Norman Blake and James Grant across Scotland gave Butler the taste for venturing back out on stage, and while writing with Jessie Buckley for the Mercury Prize nominated For All Our Days That Tear the Heart album, Bernard tucked away his own discoveries and continued the journey once Buckley returned to the silver screen. Confronting his own songwriting process, he wrote words down, away from the security of his guitar, before carving music around the lines.
Side A
Camber Sands
Deep Emotions
Living the Dream
Preaching to the Choir
Pretty D
Side B
The Forty Foot
London Snow
Clean
The Wind
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
| Availability: |
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| Year of Release: |
2024 |
| Artist: |
Bernard Butler (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Good Grief (click here for more of the same title) |
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| Format: |
vinyl LP album (LP record) |
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| Record Label: |
355 Recordings |
| Catalogue No: |
355REC001LPX |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
31 May 2024
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
BEBLPGO837848 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
5053760115205 |
| Genres: |
Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Male Solo
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| Related Artists: |
Brett Anderson, David McAlmont, McAlmont & Butler, Suede, The Tears, Trans |
| Complete Stock List: |
Bernard Butler |
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| Alternative Names: |
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UK/EU limited edition 9-track LP pressed on <B><FONT COLOR
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copies that include an autographed art print inside. <I>Good
Grief</I> is his first new solo album in 25 years and finds
Bernard Butler owning three decades of work, free to perform,
bookended by wildly contrasting experiences of loss, joy, and
bewilderment. The album is a journey from city to coast and
back, and between it, an entire spectrum of human emotion.
Picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed) )
