{"product_id":"gruff-rhys-sadness-sets-me-free","title":"GRUFF RHYS - Sadness Sets Me Free","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - Limited Edition Dinked Edition #264: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e? ‘Honeycomb Neo-Neapolitan’ vinyl \u003cstrong\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e? Bonus track 7” (etched B-side) \u003cstrong\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e? Signed 12” x 12” print \u003cstrong\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e? Sleeve with opening ‘container doors’ \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e? Foil numbered edition \u003cstrong\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e? Limited pressing of 1500 \u003cstrong\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e = EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncredibly, this will be the 25th album \u003cstrong\u003eGruff Rhys\u003c\/strong\u003e has released in his 35 year career individually, collaboratively and as a member of various bands. “\u003cem\u003eSadness Sets Me Free\u003c\/em\u003e” is also the follow up to 2021’s “\u003cem\u003eSeeking new Gods\u003c\/em\u003e”, his first solo top ten record. The album will be available in a range of formats including a unique \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDinked edition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e on ‘honeycomb neo-neapolitan’ vinyl, an LP sleeve with ‘container doors’ and a bonus 7” with exclusive audio for the first 1500 copies. A gatefold soft pack CD also includes a pull out poster.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLead-off single “\u003cem\u003eCelestial Candyfloss\u003c\/em\u003e” is a telling four minute glimpse of the forthcoming album, revealing the heady wonders and classic pop sounds within. Soaring strings carry the sweet melodies along, anchored by just enough necessary melancholy to add emotional ballast. The eye-popping video was created by long-time collaborator \u003cstrong\u003eMark James\u003c\/strong\u003e and compliments the scope and style of the song on a galactic scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCelestial Candyfloss\u003c\/em\u003e” is, Gruff says, “an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance. Mark James has brought the \u003cem\u003eSadness Sets Me Free\u003c\/em\u003e album cover to life \u0026amp; managed to place me watching TV interference in a shipping container that’s lost in space. For what is apparently the 25th album I’ve had a hand in writing I’ve reverted to a rich seam of inspiration relating to shedding some light on sadness and the general terror of cosmic loneliness.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd so it was that Gruff and his band – \u003cstrong\u003eOsian Gwynedd\u003c\/strong\u003e (piano), \u003cstrong\u003eHuw V Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e (double bass) and former \u003cstrong\u003eFlaming Lips\u003c\/strong\u003e drummer turned \u003cstrong\u003eSuper Furry Animals\u003c\/strong\u003e archivist \u003cstrong\u003eKliph Scurlock\u003c\/strong\u003e (drums) piled into a van driven by the late, legendary tour manager \u003cstrong\u003e“Dr” Kiko Loiacono\u003c\/strong\u003e and raced from Dunkirk, where they had just played the final show of a tour of Spain and France, to the outskirts of Paris in the early hours of a March morning in 2022. There, in \u003cstrong\u003eLa Frette Studios\u003c\/strong\u003e, a recording facility installed in a 19th-century house, Gruff and his road-hardened group tracked “\u003cem\u003eSadness Sets Me Free\u003c\/em\u003e” in just three days. Backing vocals were added along the way by \u003cstrong\u003eKate Stables\u003c\/strong\u003e from \u003cstrong\u003eThis Is The Kit\u003c\/strong\u003e along with additional strings and orchestration and it was mixed between Marseille and Cardiff. What finally emerged from these intense bouts of cross-continental activity was Gruff’s most accomplished and beautiful record to date.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a career that has taken him from the slate-mining towns of north-west Wales, down to the expat communities of Patagonia, up to the Mandan tribe of the Great Plains of North America and across to the Tuareg rock groups of the Saharan Desert, Gruff Rhys, one of Britain’s most beloved and successful singer-songwriters, has always been willing to follow an opportunity, wherever it may lead him. “At this point I quite like working with serendipity,” he says. “Not in a cosmic way, [but] I try and leave things open to chance encounters and chance geography. 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