the GOLDEN DREGS Announces New Single Sundown
the GOLDEN DREGS
Shares New Song ‘Sundown Lake’
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2023 US, UK & Ireland Headline Tour Announced
On Grace & Dignity
4AD Debut Album Released 10 February 2023
Today, Benjamin Woods shares a new song from his upcoming GOLDEN DREGS album, On Grace & Dignity. Following early single ‘American Airlines’, ‘Sundown Lake’ is a coming-of-age song full of nostalgia where bandleader Woods – joined by Issie Armstrong on backing vocals – muses on hazy memories of teenage life in Cornwall.
Listen to ‘Sundown Lake’ HERE or via the player below.
Official Audio
Released on 10 February 2023, Woods’ third album, On Grace & Dignity, considers his home and what it means to be shaped by a place – in this instance, Truro, Cornwall, 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 On Grace & Dignity 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.”
2022
17 November – LONDON, UK, The Roundhouse *
18 November – BEDFORD, UK, Esquires
19 November – BIRMINGHAM, UK, The Mill *
20 November – GLASGOW, UK, QMU *
21 November – MANCHESTER, UK, O2 Ritz *
* Supporting Ezra Furman2023
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
April 6 – LONDON, UK, Village Underground
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
the GOLDEN DREGS – On Grace & Dignity
February 10, 2023
PRE-ORDER ALBUM
4. Before We Fell From Grace
The FADER
“Like witty sardonic gunslinger’s ghost pouring wise-guy lyrics from the bottom of a mile-deep well. Woods drawls his woes in a baritone mixing Lee Hazlewood and The Magnetic Field’s Stephin Merritt. The title track glimmers with optimism, but all the tracks will stay on your mind”
MOJO ****