Danny George Wilson will release his new album “Arcade” on 20th March via Loose Music, and ‘Distant Seasons’, the first single to be taken from the album, is available now. Of the single, Danny reflects, “It’s a song about an imagined return. There’s a wonderfully melancholic string section and arrangement (by producer Hamish Benjamin), which is something of a theme throughout the album. As is the case with the new album, it’s about losing people, time & place. Sonically, it’s both rootsy and experimental…a kind of altered earthiness”
“Arcade” found Danny George Wilson returning to Hamish Benjamin’s studio in East Sussex – five years on from his post-lockdown solo album “Another Place” – to construct its sequel. With Lewes-based Benjamin and right-hand man Henry Garratt, again given free rein, the album is a fresh collection of sonically inventive, deeply romantic songs, with atmosphere taking primacy over meaning, and narrative dissolving. As Wilson tells it: “The songs are about the ways we deal with losing people, time, place, or don’t deal with it… Looking back, we discover what was always there, or things that are just easier to ignore – different and contradictory perspectives. And I wanted a chance to work with Hamish and Henry again, and this seemed like their thing, and it was”.
Traditional instrumentation meets technology; the majority of tracks feature a string quartet, while Benjamin and Garratt employ synthesiser and mellotron along with a plethora of guitars. Gerry Love again provides backing vocals with cameos from Emma Tricca and Annie Dressner. It is a change of mood from the previous Wilson release through the moniker of Danny and The Champions of the World and could be fairly be described as more fragile, tender, and perhaps full of uncertainty. The album is available to pre order here.
Here’s the single ‘Distant Seasons’
