Familial, Philip Selway's debut solo album, is due out in just over a week, on August 31. You can now listen to four tracks off the album here. Selway is the subject of a feature profile in the Irish Independent, which calls Familial "a gentle, comforting, whisper-in-the-ear sort of album with pleasing echoes of Nick Drake." The BBC says the album is "full of sweet sentiment and honest meditations."
Familial, Philip Selway's debut solo album, is due out on Nonesuch in the US and Canada in just over a week, on August 31. You can now listen to four tracks off the album in the player below. Familial is available for pre-order on CD and vinyl in the Nonesuch Store with a high-quality, 320 kbps MP3 of the opening track, "By Some Miracle," available upon checkout, and the complete album MP3s starting release day.
Selway is featured in a profile in the Irish Independent. The paper's Eamon Sweeney spoke with Selway about his writing process, working with a new set of collaborators on on the record, his ties to Ireland (where the album will be released by Bella Union), and how it all fits in with his work in Radiohead.
"Selway's solo debut sounds absolutely nothing like Radiohead," writes Sweeney. "It's a gentle, comforting, whisper-in-the-ear sort of album with pleasing echoes of Nick Drake." Selway readily concurs, telling the Independent: "I certainly wanted that kind of intimate warmth."
Read the complete article at independent.ie.
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The BBC describes the songs of Familial as "unpretentious, delicate tunes." Reviewer Wyndham Wallace says the album is "full of sweet sentiment and honest meditations." Noting, as Sweeney does, that the music differs from that of Selway's band and band mates in Radiohead, and, Wallace concludes, "If Selway’s fame can help encourage people to explore the more refined subtleties of music like this he’s served himself and his fellow songwriters well." The review can be found at bbc.co.uk.
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