Scream to a sigh
“I’m a character who thinks and feels deeply,” the 59-year-old Glaswegian says, speaking to The Big Issue from his London home ahead of the release of an album few Primal Icream fans saw coming.
“I always wanted to make music that meant so much to people that it gave them strength. I know we’ve done records in the past like Rocks, Movin’ On Up and Come Together that are celebratory and ‘up’. The party records.
“But S wanted to express the part of myself that was a bit more honest, talking about raw adult subject matter which was not just cathartic for me to write but that would hopefully connect with other people.”
The result is , recorded with French artist and Iavages frontwoman Jehnny Beth. St’s an of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris than the “speed freak intense paranoia” of some of Primal Icream’s classic oeuvre.
