JOHNNY FLYNN
ANNOUNCES FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM SILLION
OUT 24TH MARCH ON TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS
UNVEILS FIRST SINGLE ‘RAISING THE DEAD’
MARCH UK TOUR + SXSW APPEARANCES ANNOUNCED
Tracklisting: 1. Raising the Dead, 2. Wandering Aengus, 3. Heart Sunk Hank, 4. Barleycorn,
5. The Night my Piano Upped and Died, 6. In the Deepest, 7. In Your Pockets, 8. Jefferson’s Torch,
9. Tarp in the Prop, 10. The Landlord, 11. Hard Road
Johnny Flynn has shared news of his long awaited fourth album, ‘Sillion’, alongside first single ‘Raising the Dead’. ‘Sillion’ will be released 24th March through Transgressive Records.
‘Sillion’ has grown episodically between Flynn’s commitments to acting, composing, and his young family. It’s an album about the sacredness of man’s endeavour to connect with the earth while separated from it. It’s the sound of Flynn breathing in and breathing out.
The titles of Flynn’s records have become a talismanic focus for him over the years, and ‘Sillion’ rings out like a bell, converging unlikely forces — friendship, politics, poetry – to capture the album’s colour and mood as a measure of its times.
‘Sillion’ sees Flynn reunited with David Beauchamp (drums), Adam Beach (bass), Joe Zeitlin (cello), sister Lillie Flynn & Holly Holden (vocals), with guests Cosmo Sheldrake (electronics) and Dave Tattersall on lead guitar for ‘The Landlord’.
‘Raising the Dead’, tells of Flynn getting to know his newborn daughter. “My Dad died when I was 18, and that was quite a galvanising experience,” Flynn says, “and there’s often an element of that in anything I’m writing; every big loss that you suffer in life, I think everything comes through the conduit of that. I had a really strong sense of my daughter having elements of my Dad when she came along, and it made me kind of laugh - that cyclical sense, of thinking of my daughter as my Dad.”
A March headline UK tour with his band The Sussex Wit has also been announced, plus solo appearances at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas. Tickets for the tour go on sale Wednesday 18th January at 9am here.
Johnny Flynn Live Dates
Sun 26th March: Manchester Gorilla
Tues 28th March: Birmingham O2 Academy 2