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Release Date Friday 28th February 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Temporary features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time. Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, Temporary was recorded at Russell’s own west London Copper House studio, alongside sessions in Tottenham, Cumbria, Dorset, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and is set to build on previous acclaimed releases including 2018’s eponymous, Mercury Prize-nominated debut album.
On Temporary, Russell reboots his musical DNA: while his music had previously been about rhythm, words and melody in that order, on Temporary he swaps rhythm and melody, the rhythm taking up less space and the melody coming to the fore. Musically some songs are inspired by the sonic thought experiment “what if folk music had ‘gone digital’ in the 80s, just as reggae had?”, while spiritually and lyrically the themes encompass grief and loss. The results – elevated by an intriguing and diverse set of collaborators who sound like the best and freshest versions of themselves – are the most luminous and relaxed compositions of Russell’s career. Every song sounds washed in sunshine and graced by tenderness. More fragile and quieter than previous Everything Is Recorded output, it might be one of the gentlest records ever made about death. In Russell’s own words “making the album was joyous, a way of hallowing life.”
Tracklisting:
1. October
2. My And Me (feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Ricky Washington and Alabaster DePlume)
3. Porcupine Tattoo (feat. Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan)
4. Never Felt Better (feat. Sampha and Florence Welch)
5. Ether (feat. Maddy Prior)
6. Losing You (feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble and Yazz Ahmed)
7. Firelight (feat. Florence Welch, Berwyn and Alabaster DePlume)
8. The Summons
9. No More Rehearsals (feat. Roses Gabor, Jah Wobble, Jack Peñate and Yazz Ahmed)
10. You Were Smiling (feat. Samantha Morton)
11. Norm (feat. Bill Callahan)
12. Swamp Dream #3 (feat. Clari Freeman-Taylor)
13. The Meadows (feat. Roses Gabor, Kamasi Washington and Ricky Washington)
14. Goodbye (Hell Of A Ride) (feat. Nourished By Time)
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