New Music Friday: Bobby Gillespie And Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes


BOBBY GILLESPIE AND JEHNNY BETH




Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth have released their collaborative album Utopian Ashes on this New Music Friday – have a listen right here via Spotify.

Utopian Ashes is the culmination of some brief but fairly regular collaborations between Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth during the past six years, and was introduced by the pair as being about, ‘the loss, miscommunication and emotional inarticulacy’ of a married couple whose relationship is breaking down.

“In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here,” Beth said. “But you put yourself in it, because you’re trying to understand the human situation. The singing has to be authentic. That’s all that matters.”

They’ll tour the album for the first time this coming November, playing six UK shows as well as a date in Paris.

Tour dates:

November
7 – Edinburgh, Queen’s Hall
8 – Glasgow, Pavilion
10,11 – London, Earth
13 – Manchester, Cathedral
14 – Brighton, Theatre Royal
15 – Paris, Saint-Eustache

 


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