Skerryvore rose to new heights in their 20-year career when their previous album ‘Tempus’ became their first Top 40 record, and hit #1on both the Folk Albums and Scottish Albums charts. Now the multiple time winners of Scotland’s Live Act of the Year award continue to go from strength-to-strength with today’s release of ‘Beautiful Mistakes’ – their most ambitious and personal work to date. Listen HERE
The band embraced a newfound freedom in their creative approach. Working for the first time with Jamie Squire (The 1975), they latched on to the chemistry in the studio instead of focusing too much on the details. Meanwhile, lead vocalist and songwriter Alec Dalglish was delving deep for some truly introspective songwriting, making himself more vulnerable than he ever had before. Its themes also come from shifting perspectives, its topics spanning the emotional heart that the band is renowned for: love, loss, roots, nostalgia and hope.
Alec Dalglish says, “Making this album has been a much more organic process, where we often started acoustically, quite small, with the idea that the listener should feel like they’re in the room with us. Some of the songs still ended up sounding huge, but I think there’s a maturity there, and we really captured the live element of it all.”
The album’s singles – the unrestrained energy of ‘Fly’, the emotionally resonant ‘Singing Up In Heaven’ and the stunning Tamzene duet‘While I’m Still Breathing’ – have captured that feeling alongside their ever-fervent emotions and a fresh pop accessibility. That latter trait shines in the new focus track ‘Second Chance’, the ultimate kiss-song with an irrepressibly catchy chorus that’s perfect for singalongs at the band’s renowned live shows.
Physical copies of ‘Beautiful Mistakes’ are now available to buy HERE. The band’s official store offers signed CD, black vinyl, signed black-and-white sunburst vinyl, and eight cassette variants – and themed around and signed by a different band member. There is also a limited edition, hand-stamped CD which adds two bonus tracks which were recorded live at Glasgow Barrowland
Skerryvore commence the ‘Beautiful Mistakes’ album tour in Edinburgh tonight, and their upcoming shows also feature a very intimate sold out live session at The Park Bar, Glasgow. Limited remaining tickets for the tour are available HERE.
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