Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth announce collaborative album, Utopian Ashes
Primal Scream and Savages leaders share the song “Remember We Were Lovers”
Jehnny Beth of Savages and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream announced the release of a collaborative album baptized under the name Utopian Ashes. This work will arrive on July 2 through the Third Man Records label.
The duo shared the first sample of Utopian Ashes, a song called “Remember We Were Lovers”.
Utopian Ashes
Jehnny Beth and Bobby Gillespie started writing Utopian Ashes in 2017, receiving collaborations from other Primal Scream musicians (Andrew Innes, Martin Duffy and Darrin Mooney) and Johnny Hostile, a composer, producer and collaborator of Jehnny since the singer's early career.
In a press release, Bobby Gillespie states that the intention in Utopian Ashes is "to put pain back into music". This statement reveals that the album has as its theme the fictional story about a marriage that slowly disintegrates over time.
Tracklist:
01. Chase It Down
02. English Town
03. Remember We Were Lovers
04. Your Heart Will Aways Be Broken
05. Stones of Silence
06. You Don’t Know What Love Is
07. Self-Crowned King of Nothingness
08. You Can Trust Me Now
09. Living A Lie
10. Sunk In Reverie
