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PRE RELEASE ITEM- due to be shipped on Fri 26 Jan. . Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free (Gatefold Softpack inc Poster CD) Gruff Rhys announces his new album, ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’, released by Rough Trade Records. Incredibly. this will be the 25th album he has released in his 35-year career individually, collaboratively and as a member of various bands. ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’ is also the follow up to 2021’s ‘Seeking New Gods’, his first solo top ten record.
Gruff and his band piled into a van driven by the late, legendary tour manager ‘Dr’ Kiko Loiacono, and raced from Dunkirk, where they had just played the final show of a tour of Spain and France, to the outskirts of Paris in the early hours of a March morning in 2022. There, a recording facility installed in a 19th-century house, Gruff and his road-hardened group tracked ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’ in just three days.. What finally emerged from these intense bouts of cross-continental activity was Gruff’s most accomplished and beautiful record to date.
Gruff and his band piled into a van driven by the late, legendary tour manager ‘Dr’ Kiko Loiacono, and raced from Dunkirk, where they had just played the final show of a tour of Spain and France, to the outskirts of Paris in the early hours of a March morning in 2022. There, a recording facility installed in a 19th-century house, Gruff and his road-hardened group tracked ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’ in just three days.. What finally emerged from these intense bouts of cross-continental activity was Gruff’s most accomplished and beautiful record to date.
