Bill Ryder-Jones announces new solo album Yawn

Bill Ryder-Jones will release Yawn, his follow-up to 2015’s highly acclaimed West Kirby County Primary, on November 2nd.

Ryder-Jones has again kept things close for his fourth solo effort, recording and producing entirely by himself, though there are guest contributions from Mick Head and The Orielles.

West Kirby… picked up the local Liverpool Git Award in 2016 and was named one of Live4ever’s albums of 2015 after we concluded it, ‘screams brilliance, only in a beautifully soft whisper‘:

“Satellites is his passive-aggressive take on Where is My Mind, while Let’s Get Away From Here pulls the infamous Black/Kim Deal one-two in seeming like a beautiful little ditty, seemingly needing no further description, until it suddenly does. A trick that changes only slightly on Catharine and Huskisson, to equally brilliant effect.”

“It’s this contrast which works so well. Much of the record seems slight, achieved by a brilliant musical economy on his part. There is nothing on this record except what should be on this record. Not a single additional instrument, moment or note. Everything is boiled down to its simplest and most refined form.”