Just back from filling venues during a USA and Canada headline tour, Skerryvore today share the brand new single ‘While I’m Breathing’, which features fellow Scottish artist Tamzene. The song features on their upcoming album ‘Beautiful Mistakes’, which follows on November 6th. Listen HERE. Pre-order the album here.
While recent years have seen Skerryvore achieve new highs during their two-decade career (the chart breakthrough and Radio 2 airplay from their previous album ‘Tempus’, a huge sold-out anniversary headline show at Floors Castle), ‘While I’m Breathing’ represents the first duet in their history.
The driving folk-pop melody of ‘While I’m Breathing’ shows a doomed, toxic relationship from two different viewpoints – even if both partners share a misguided belief that they can somehow battle against the odds to make it work. Alec Dalglish’s voice is booming, determined and impassioned, a contrast to the unguarded delicacy of Tamzene’s tone. Together, though, their shared harmonies are sublime, a stunning partnership that underlines what’s at risk with the situation that the song reveals.
Skerryvore first connected with Tamzene when she performed at the Tiree Music Festival in their hometown in 2017, an event run by the band’s co-founder Daniel Gillespie.
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The song adds another perspective to an album rich with sonic contrasts, from driving road trip energy to raw intimacy, with themes exploring human fallibility and changing perspectives. Produced alongside Jamie Squire (The 1975), it makes ‘Beautiful Mistakes’ the band’s most ambitious and personal album to date.
‘Beautiful Mistakes’ is available to pre-order/pre-save. Today sees the launch of a new card wallet CD format, which features bonus live tracks, unique artwork and is hand-stamped by the band – £1 from every sale of this will be donated to the Street Soccer Scotland charity. They also recently announced a series of limited edition cassette formats of the album, the eight variants each themed around and signed by a different band member. In addition, the band’s official store offers a signed black-and-white sunburst vinyl, a signed CD and black vinyl. All album bundles will be rewarded with a signed postcard from Tiree.
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