'Dead Letters' - OUT NOW!
Hello to you wherever you may be. I hope that today is going reasonably well and there's something in the near future that you are looking forward to.
For ages I've been looking forward to sharing a new collection of songs with you but sadly I have to stop looking forward to that now. Because my SEVENTH album as Aqualung "Dead Letters" is OUT NOW!!! (distant cheering). You heard me, it's OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!! (very quiet applause).
You can find it in the usual digital places, or get a fashionable vinyl copy, or even an unfashionable CD. Signed versions of these things are also available if you're into that sort of thing....
FIND IT here
It's been 4 years since I decided to celebrate being back in the UK by getting my favourite musical friends and family together to make some new AquaThings. There was a lot i wanted to write about, and a strong urge to write about them at my old wonky piano. So 4 years ago we went to the studio where we recorded much of "Still Life" and drank tea and wine and recorded delicious sounding sketches of the piano-y new songs. I then spent 2 years developing those sketches into song-shaped items, turning them inside out and upside down, rendering them in monochrome then carving them out of soap, turning everything off but the bongos, turning off the bongos, trying Faded Glamour, trying Everything Too Long, then Everything Too Dense, then seeing if I could make the whole thing out of space and ambient drones. I tried it in the box, out of the box, in then out of the box, no box at all. I put the bongos back in. And.... eventually.... this record emerged. And hopefully it will arrive in your brains and hearts as candid and thoughtful and enjoyable and familiar and unexpected. And all you really need to know is the people who have made it for you cared deeply about it, and it represents a serious endeavour. And i'm very proud of what we found. and i love it and it's true and i really hope these songs and the recordings they live in will bring a little consolation, companionship and calm to whoever fancies a listen.
Music is Love
Matt x