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Blur drummer Dave Rowntree is excited to announce details of his debut album,Radio Songs.Radio Songswill be released on 20thJanuary 2023 via Cooking Vinyl. Its announcement coincides with the release of a new single, his second from the debut record, and its opener too.The album was produced by Leo Abrahams Brian Eno, Wild Beasts, Ghostpoet.Radio has been a constant for me, Rowntree reflects. Its been one of the steadying factors in my life.Hence the title ofRadio Songs, Dave Rowntrees debut solo album. Many of the songs on it began life with his recordings of the weird and wonderful sounds of atmospheric static inbetween stations, using them as the foundations upon which he built the tracks.The idea of Radio Songs is me spinning through the dial, he explains. It sounds like youve got a radio tuned to some static and you spin the dial, and the song pops out of it. And then you spin the dial again, and the song dissolves back into the static. Moreover, each of the songs on the record finds Rowntree exploring significant turning points in his life.Best known as the drummer in Blur, Dave Rowntree is also something of a polymath film and TV composer, podcaster, light aircraft pilot and instructor, lawyer, and former Labour councillor. Ive always been a bit of a nomad, he laughs. Never quite satisfied. I suppose Im endlessly ambitious, really. Those ambitions have led him to the creation ofRadio Songs, which he points out is an album that Ive been musing on and chipping away at for a few years now. The Times Record Collector DIY Classic Pop810 Uncut
