PHILIP SELWAY has today announced a headline UK tour for February 2015

With the release of his much-anticipated second album Weatherhouse just two weeks away on 6th October, PHILIP SELWAY has today announced a headline UK tour for February 2015, performing with his band at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank followed by shows in Leeds, Glasgow and Manchester. Dates/info below:

Wednesday 11 February – LONDON – Queen Elizabeth Hall

Tuesday 12 February – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club

Wednesday 13 February – GLASGOW – King Tuts

Thursday 14 February – MANCHESTER –  Deaf Institute

Selway has also just unveiled a visually striking video for new single ‘It Will End In Tears’. Made in conjunction with Northern Film & Media and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, the video is the creation of RAMMATIK, aka Rannvá Káradóttir & Marianna Mørkøre, a Faroese film duo at the forefront of artistic filmmaking. With an experimental approach they have developed a distinctive visual identity, resulting in international recognition and awards. Click below to watch.

Four years after the unexpected and exquisite treat that was Philip Selway’s debut album Familial, the man formerly known only as the drummer of Radiohead returns with his sophomore record, Weatherhouse. At ten tracks and 38 minutes, the album is as concise in shape as it is expansive in mood and assured in execution, mining a generally darker, fuller sound than its gentler, more acoustic-based predecessor and reflecting the band-centred nature of its construction and its creator’s growth in confidence.

Weatherhouse was made in collaboration with Adem Ilhan and Quinta; artists in their own right who had previously performed in Philip’s backing band. “From the outset,” Selway recalls, “we wanted the album to be the three of us, and we covered a lot of instruments between us. With a studio full of inspiring gear and a great-sounding desk, we felt like a band.  Different musicians stretch you, and I felt stretched on Weatherhouse, but very enjoyably so.” Working mostly out of Radiohead’s studio in Oxfordshire, Adem also produced and engineered Weatherhouse, while Quinta played an equally integral role in the arrangements. The album was mixed by David Wrench.

Album opener ‘Coming Up For Air’ sets the scene with its brooding, spectral mood, mantra-like pattern and Selway’s simmering, reverb-drenched vocal exploring the album’s dominant theme. “It’s very much about taking stock of my life. I wanted to convey a sense of release and affirmation,” he says. “This was the first song that we recorded. Immediately it felt in a very different space from Familial.” Click HERE to watch the video directed by the acclaimed Spanish film collective NYSU.

The album’s talismanic qualities explore a world of hope and plans, connection and disconnection – between family, friends and self – and dreams and fears: “I love records that you can almost live in, where the songs become talismans that you take to heart. That’s what I was trying to create in Weatherhouse.” With its emotional frankness, haunting melodies and gripping tension, Selway has made a great artistic leap and created something that even the most experienced singer-songwriters would be proud of.

Weatherhouse will be released 6th October on Bella Union. Album artwork, new photo (by Deirdre O’ Callaghan) and album tracklisting below:

Philip Selway ‘Weatherhouse’ tracklisting:

1. Coming Up For Air

2. Around Again

3. Let It Go

4. Miles Away

5. Ghosts

6. It Will End In Tears

7. Don’t Go Now

8. Drawn To The Light

9. Waiting For A Sign

10. Turning It Inside Out