Albert River announces ‘bank woe’ LP w/ two superlunary singles ‘send my love’ & ‘deathbed’
Hailing from Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai / Lower Hutt, creator Albert River has worked on bank woe for the past six years. “The whole process became as if I was tinkering with feeling,” he says about bank woe’s development, “the songs wanted everything, oscillation and reemergence.” Albert River’s bank woe is due out on local label Home Alone on 6 September, 2024. Bank woe’s release also unveils an exquisite superlunary first single send my love, which Albert describes as “A dark sermon and an ode to loss and true love” and ‘deathbed’.
Pre-order the album on limited edition vinyl or digitally now
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With references to Macbeth, and owing a debt to a canon of wordsmiths including Joni Mitchell ‘for the roses’ and others who have retreated away from the world – the self-produced record is a place of solace and poetry for its listeners. The seven songs, self-described as “neon like ghosty hymns” are drawn around Albert’s gossamer vocals which hover between layers of piano, finger-picked guitar, harmonium and a flute made from an ancient piece of kauri wood. On bank woe he says “there is a ghostly energy in these songs, bank woe has many meanings interweaving, it is very much exploring life and death…about being a poor artist.
The album will be available on limited edition vinyl pressed at Holiday Records in Auckland.
Photo Credit: Samuel Austin
