Save the date - album launch

Album release date is set! 26th of November, co-incidentally this is also my birthday.

As has now become traditional, we shall be having a listening party the night before so you can all get a preview.

Watch this space for more details.

Watch it...

Watch it....

Sneak peak - track listing

 When all the boxes are ticked, we're ready for mastering:

Full track listing:

1) All Your Songs Sound The Same.

2) Colm Cannon's Call.

3) 1987 White Nissan Micra, £250 Tax and Test.

4) 42a Stirling Road.

5) You Talk Too Much.

6) The Last Sense You Lose.

7) The Fisher Wife.

8) We Carry These Things.

9) Some Things Break.

10) Fragments.

11) Years.

12) What I Know To Be True.

13) Branwell.

Sneak peak - album art and title

 We are officially onto the final straight with the next album, so it seems like a good time for a sneak preview of the artwork and title.

Partly this is to whet your whistle, but partly it's to give myself some kind of a deadline...

So here we go, The Bit Before Dying will be coming to streaming and download platforms in November 2026.

Cheery hey? What were you expecting?

Colm Cannon's Call - new single out now!

 The second single from the next album has just dropped on all the usual streaming and download platforms on Wednesday.

It's a bit of weird mix of Americana and spoken word that tells the tale of a couple of lads playing truant from school.

It may, or may not, have some autobiographical properties...

https://ditto.fm/colm-cannons-call

Album launch party!

 Well despite an erroneous copyright claim from a certain major label, we are still on for our launch of 26th April.

And to celebrate this momentous occasion we're having a virtual launch party on youtube.

So at the prescribed time of 8pm (BST) simply click the link above and it'll take you to a page where we'll listen through the album together, I'll talk a little bit about the songs and the creation process, and you'll be able to ask any questions or make any comments. Rude as you like. ;¬)

Songs From The Distant Borders

 Hold the date! 26th of April. 

Now that mastering is complete I can confirm that we are on track for a virtual listening party at the end of April.
Giving you plenty of notice because this album features several other musicians doing their level best to rescue my terrible songs and somehow make the whole thing listenable.
Have they succeeded?
You'll have to wait to find out I'm afraid, but it is a mighty challenge they've embraced. 

Having looked at a number of options I've chosen Youtube as the main platform, but obviously high res versions of the song will be available from BandCamp and Tidal as well.
I will share the relevant links nearer the time.

Here's a little work in progress

Taking a brief break from the new album and working on a standalone track. Here's a rough early draft so you can see how it's shaping up. The Ballad of Wood Heart and Cold Bone.

Blinddrew · The Ballad Of Wood Heart And Cold Bone 20220612

[EDIT - I've taken that sample track down now, but don't worry, new music will be coming on the 4th August!]

Album Launch Day!

 It's here! A Most Imperfect Machine is out today on all the major stores.

Here's a few links for you:

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/6O3kzirlm4OWVHiOoj2pmd
Amazon https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B097YGXTFD
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/blinddrew/set...erfect-machine
Bandcamp: https://drewstephenson.bandcamp.com/...erfect-machine

It's on iTunes as well but we try and avoid making anyone suffer through that abomination of a software implementation.

The launch party is on Facebook tonight at 8pm: https://fb.me/e/15b2D6AKL

EDIT: Why didn't I do this before?  Here's an embedded player to save you having to hunt round for it:

Blinddrew · A Most Imperfect Machine

New album out 2 July 2021

 Well, enough of that Hawaiian Shirt nonsense, well, enough until next year anyway...

But the news this week is, of course, that the new album is out on Friday.

Yes indeedy, A Most Imperfect Machine will be available on all the usual streaming and download sites from Friday.

We're having a listening party on Facebook at 8pm UK time, here's the event link:

https://fb.me/e/15b2D6AKL

And if you want a sneak preview, it's already available on bandcamp: https://drewstephenson.bandcamp.com/album/a-most-imperfect-machine

The Lockdown Sessions Vol.2

 Not a lot to say on this really, here's the other half of the lockdown sessions from last year.

OHIO

 This will be re-recorded to go onto the next album, but here's something I've pulled together in the last couple of days.

Enjoy.

New album in the works...

 I've had a list of EPs to work on for a while but for various reasons I've ended up working on a track here, a track there and maybe one over there too... 

So none of them are anywhere near completion.

I've also been writing and recording some new stuff.

And I sat down last night and realised that actually there could be a theme tying some of these together. And with a bit more thought, and a bit of shuffling of track order I could see a story there.

A quick look through the yet-to-be-recorded list found another three tracks that would fill the gaps and give me, and ultimately you, a full album.

So that is now the plan.

Loads of work to do of course but I'm probably more than halfway through.

So as a bit of a teaser here's one of the tracks that's pretty much there:

 

Blinddrew · Red

In the meantime I'll sort out volume 2 of the lockdown sessions.