Fyfe Dangerfield
Location: London
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Bio: Following Guillemots 2008 album ‘Red’, mercurial singer-songwriter Fyfe used the window of time created before the band’s next record to lovingly record his beautiful debut ... (more)
solo LP ‘Fly Yellow Moon’, released January 18th on Geffen UK.
‘Fly Yellow Moon’ is written entirely by Fyfe and produced by Adam Noble in Urchin Studios, London – the same studios where Guillemots recorded their first classic E.P. ‘I Saw Such Things In My Sleep’. The 10-track record startles from start to finish, magnificently eclectic, warm and uplifting, haunting and melodic – it sounds like a classic upon its first listen.
Opening track ‘When You Walk In The Room’ is the first teaser from the album and is available as a free download for fans from www.fyfedangerfield.com. It strikes the perfect chord for the following nine sublime tracks, capturing Fyfe’s truly remarkable voice, while flaunting his daring, expansive and captivating songwriting.
The record flows with highlights including from the beautiful ‘So Brand New’, the brooding ‘Faster Than The Setting Sun’ to the scintillating ‘She Needs Me’ (Main single out January 11th) and the stunningly reflective ‘Don’t Be Shy’.
Fyfe recorded the album in five days in what he describes as ‘the best ever little studio’, which ended up being the happiest days he has ever spent in studio land. The songs were written over a 12-month period in snatched moments after soundchecks, before nights out, and after moments of unmitigated lovestruck bliss.
He met up with Bernard Butler to mix a couple of songs (‘She Needs Me’, ‘Faster Than The Setting Sun’) on a 1960s-mixing desk to colour the record in a different shade. The rest of the tracks remained just as they were from their first recording session. “It often sounded best this way, says Fyfe. “Capturing the moment they were recorded and not being painted over too much.”
“A good time was had by all,” notes Fyfe, and we hope you do too!
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