Erased Tapes’ David Allred shares moving new track "Nature’s Course" ahead of Piano Day

Erased Tapes’ David Allred shares moving new track Nature’s Course ahead of Piano Day
Nature’s Course is the first taster of new record The Cell, out June 14th 2019
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“This is music of transcendent beauty” #17 Album Of The Year
The Sunday Times
“Mournful piano Allred’s delicate baritone stretched and often glazed with subtle FX, like an ecclesiastical reading of John Grant’s brooding pop”
MOJO
“There cannot be many albums of emotional resonance inspired by a spell of employment in a retirement home”
The Line Of Best Fit
“The way that Allred has sonically represented his struggles is tender and touching”
The 405
“Weltschmerz (world weariness) has seldom been as movingly beautiful as on this debut” ★★★★
Rolling Stone (Germany)

Following on from last year’s acclaimed debut with Erased Tapes The Transition —named #17 album of the year by The Sunday Times — Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with The Cell, a mini album set for release on June 14th. Today the musician shares the first cut from the new record – a moving live version of ‘Nature’s Course’ recorded live at Erased Tapes’ own east London Sound Gallery. The track itself lands on Friday 29th March in celebration of Piano Day.
Meant as a companion piece to The Transition, The Cell picks up where The Transition left off, with David continuing the search to find his place in the world. “The Cell is about warmly acknowledging the darkness in our individual lives as a strategic method of gaining a deeper understanding of how to move forward in a vastly dissonant world with optimism, harmony and light.”
Lead track Nature’s Course finds David delving deeper into existential questions about the human condition and its relation to nature, set to a gentle, melancholy piano ballad.“Nature’s Course is a feeling pertaining to the way our subjective human experience is subconsciously directly related to the slow steady pace of nature and our ability to cope with our inner struggles accordingly” explains David.
Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body, Masayoshi Fujita, and many more. He quickly found himself touring Europe with Peter Broderick, culminating in a Royal Festival Hall performance, and contributing the arresting voice and double bass piece Ahoy to the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary box set 1+1=X.
David will return to Europe with more dates to be announced soon.