New Music Friday: Hayden Thorpe – Diviner

Hayden Thorpe‘s first solo album since the split of Wild Beasts has been released today – have a listen to Diviner on New Music Friday below.

Live4ever’s review opens on Thorpe’s subsequent ‘mid-life crisis‘: “Following the lengthy divorce between the Wild Beasts singer and the band which he’d called home since he was a teenager he headed off to California to, in his own words, ‘lose my mind’,” it reads.

“Whilst some of the past came back with him, not all of the man he was before it seems did. Part of the reason for this trip was to break free from inertia, as contractual obligations had meant that there was a year between taking the joint decision to split one of Britain’s most successful indie bands and an actual parting of ways. When it was done the quartet scattered, only Thorpe remaining in London.”

“Heading back to his home rehearsal space immediately to begin work on the songs that would become Diviner, Thorpe realised straight away that if anything needed paying back in earnest it was what was owed to the sliver of himself that had always remained outside of the Wild Beasts bubble.”