After launching his solo career with the critically acclaimed Familial last year, Philip Selway returns with the Running Blind EP, which Nonesuch releases digitally in North America on August 30. (Bella Union releases it July 25 in Europe.) When Selway wrote the songs that formed the track listing for Familial, he kept back a handful that he felt worked best as a separate piece of work; these now comprise Running Blind. The digital EP includes those four songs plus a live session video of the title track. Listen to the title track here.
After launching his solo career with the critically acclaimed Familial last year, Philip Selway returns with the Running Blind EP, which Nonesuch Records releases digitally in the US and Canada on August 30. (Bella Union releases it July 25 in the UK and Europe.) Listen to the title track below.
When Selway wrote the songs that formed the track listing for Familial, he kept back a handful that he felt worked best as a separate piece of work; these now comprise Running Blind. The songs evolved during Selway’s live shows supporting Familial, and he subsequently returned to the studio to record them with his band: Adem, Alex Thomas, Caroline Weeks, and Kath Mann.
The Running Blind digital EP includes those four songs plus a live session video of the title track.
Familial received positive reviews upon its release from publications such as the Wall Street Journal, which suggested that its “predecessors are the somber, introspective songs of Nick Drake and others on Britain’s late ‘60s folk scene.” The Boston Herald said that Selway “delivers a soft, lonesome singer/songwriter album of simple melodies and hushed arrangements.”
The Running Blind track listing is:
1. Running Blind
2. All in All
3. Every Spit and Cough
4. What Goes Around
5. Running Blind (live session video)
Listen to the opening track, which was recently named Song of the Day by Chart Attack, here:
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