Brett Anderson To Release Solo Record

Posted 18th Dec 2005 in News | 0 comments
Brett Anderson has revealed that he will release his debut solo album next year.

The former Suede singer and current Tears frontman has confirmed that the album is nearly completed, and will get a low key release in 2006.

“I’m literally about to go to the studio and finish off my solo album,” he explained. “I kind of half finished it a year ago and I’ve been living with it and we’re just putting a few final touches to it. It should be released next year and I’m very proud of it.”

“(It will probably be released) early next year in between the two Tears albums. Once I’ve finished touring The Tears album I’ll just put it out. It’s not going be a big push or anything, but I think it’s a really good record.”

Anderson told Xfm that there is no electric guitar on his new project.

“There’s no electric guitars, simply no electric guitars. Well, there are bits but they’re used for textures. I played all the guitars on it and it’s a very important record for me to have made. I co-wrote all the songs with a guy called Fred Bull who was in a band called Pleasure. He’s a mate and we started writing together and it went really well so we just made the record.”

“It’s very sad and quite dark and it feels incredibly natural,” Anderson added. “I’m not writing songs to get on the radio, it has a very natural poise that just feels right. Last year I was writing The Tears’ and this album at the same time.”

Anderson also explained that that despite working on two records, there were no split loyalties.

He said: “There were certain ideas that might not work with The Tears. And you can’t weld a lyrical idea onto a piece of music if it doesn’t have any sympathy, and it’s important that when you’re writing the lyrics feel like they’re in sympathy with the music. There’s a couple of cross-over points (between the two records) where trainspotters might spot I was writing them at the same time, but I kept them as separate as I could.

”All the musicians are people I’ve never worked with before. But I played most of it. No guests, no gimmicks, just good stuff. I haven’t wheeled Dr Dre into the studio to remix it. That definitely wouldn’t be worth hearing.”

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