the GOLDEN DREGS Announce New Song, UK Record Store Tour
the GOLDEN DREGS
Shares New Song & Video ‘Before We Fell From Grace’
WATCH / LISTEN HERE
Release Week UK Record Store Tour Announced
New Album On Grace & Dignity Out 10 February
Check out ‘Before We Fell From Grace’ HERE or watch the official video below.
Directed by Joe Wheatley
Out on 10 February, Woods’ third album, On Grace & Dignity, considers his home and what it means to be shaped by a place – in this instance, Truro, Cornwall’s capital, home to a rare three-spired cathedral, a peaceful river and a lot of empty shops and flimsy out-of-town housing estates. In among the personal reflections on loss of innocence and inferiority, Woods spins subtly interweaving narratives about survival, desperate acts of violence, loss and the limitations of community in the face of rapacious gentrification. On Grace & Dignity unfolds at a graceful pace and is grounded by Woods’s deep voice, which seems to resonate from his feet. Written, recorded and produced by Woods from his South London home and childhood bedroom in Truro, it was mixed by Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding) who provided additional production.
For the album’s visuals, Woods commissioned Bristol-based model-maker Edie Lawrence to construct an HO-scale fictional Cornish town. Christened Polgras, the 8 ft by 4 ft model features a viaduct, an estuary, a supermarket, new-build houses and industrial buildings; every song from On Grace & Dignity is represented by a scene in the town. “There are different parts of the experience of growing up in Cornwall in there,” he says. “Some of it was from me looking at it when I was down there that winter, and some of it was me harking back to the experience of growing up there. It’s defined by that sense of duality, of coexisting realities,” he explains. “You’re geographically so far away, and it has a strong identity of its own, as well as a different landscape. It’s so rugged and bleak, but beautiful – which is what I really like in music.”
10 February – BRIGHTON, GB, Resident (Solo)
11 February (Lunchtime) – TOTNES, GB, Drift
11 February (Evening) – FALMOUTH, GB, Jam Records @ The Cornish Bank
12 February – BRISTOL, GB, Rough Trade (Solo)
13 February – NOTTINGHAM, GB, Rough Trade (Solo)
14 February – OXFORD, GB, Truck (Solo)
15 February – SOUTHSEA, GB, Pie & Vinyl (Solo)
16 February – LONDON, GB, Rough Trade
TOUR DATES:
9 March – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Baby’s All Right
13-18 March – AUSTIN, TX, USA, SXSW
23 March – LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, Gold Diggers
24-25 March – BOISE, ID, USA, Treefort Music Festival
6 April – LONDON, UK, Village Underground
13 April – LILLE, FRANCE, Le Grande Mix
14 April – PARIS, FRANCE, Hasard Ludique
15 April – ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Motel Mozaique Festival
17 April – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, AB Club
19 April – COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, Loppen
20 April – OSLO, NORWAY, Krøsset
21 April – STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, Kristallen @ Sodra Teatern
23 April – HAMBURG, GERMANY, Molotow
24 April – COLOGNE, Germany, Bumann & Sohn
25 April – BERLIN, GERMANY, Urban Spree
5 May – MARGATE, GB, Elsewhere
6 May – BRIGHTON, GB, Green Door Store
8 May – BRISTOL, GB, The Louisiana
9 May – BIRMINGHAM, GB, Hare & Hounds
10 May – MANCHESTER, GB, YES
13 May – DUBLIN, IRELAND, The Workman’s Club
14 May – GALWAY, IRELAND, Roisin Dubh
16 May – GLASGOW, GB, Mono
17 May – NEWCASTLE, GB, Cluny 2
18 May – LEEDS, GB, Brudenell Social Club
4. Before We Fell From Grace
