Take heed to Hayden Thorpe’s hypnotic new single ‘Parallel Kingdom’
Hayden Thorpe has shared a brand new monitor referred to as ‘Parallel Kingdom’ – you may hearken to it beneath.
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The music will seem on the previous Wild Beasts frontman’s second solo album, ‘Moondust For My Diamond’, which arrives on October 15 through Domino. Its lead single ‘The Universe Is All the time Proper’ got here out earlier this month.
Launched at the moment (August 3), the throbbing and hypnotic ‘Parallel Kingdom’ arrives with an official Tom Haines-directed video.
“The music itself is a little bit of zombie, refusing to die after years of being written off,” Thorpe defined. “However that’s the essence of ‘Parallel Kingdom’. It’s the fantasy we reside alongside till in the future, we step throughout.”
The musician beforehand mentioned that his forthcoming new document issues “the assembly level between science and faith, the grand wrestle for actuality that shapes a lot of our time”.
In a press release, he added: “What about nature? What concerning the cosmos? What about all this stuff that break by way of the tyranny of the self? Our sense organs carry the world inside us in spite of everything, I simply needed to sing it again out.
“I used to be enchanted once more with the thriller of science and the way I’d converse from the center in an age the place metric is gospel.”
Hayden Thorpe will showcase ‘Moondust For My Diamond’ at a pair of UK dates scheduled for this October. He’ll carry out in his hometown of Kendal on the Brewery Arts Centre on October 9, earlier than coming to London on the LP’s launch date (October 15) for a gig at Chat’s Palace.
Reviewing Thorpe’s debut album ‘Diviner’ upon its launch in 2019, NME wrote: “Wild Beasts generally appeared overly enamoured with ideology, self-aware to a fault, whereas Thorpe’s solo album is easier, extra direct, extra self-contained – and therein lies its energy.”