Alongside his trusted group of sons Jamie (guitar / manufacturing) and Peter Jr (bass) plus members of his reside band, Perrett is assisted by a roster of starry friends together with Johnny Marr, Bobby Gillespie, Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell and Dream Spouse guitarist Alice Go, the album touches on themes of artwork, habit, ageing, social media and witch trials amongst others. “I do know a few of the subject material is loss of life, suicide and melancholy,” Perrett notes, “however I really feel there may be an uplifting environment to the album, as a result of I’m clearly having fun with recognising what’s going on round me.”
“I Wanna Go With Dignity” is devoted to the late Fiona H Stevenson (AKA Fay Wolftree), and its lyric was part-inspired by the late David Cavanagh, each of whom interviewed Perrett. One of many eight tracks on the album that function Bobby Gillespie and Carlos O’Connell, Gillespie additionally seems within the video directed by Douglas Hart.
“One thing inside me wish to make my best-ever album,” Peter Perrett stated in 2007. “Seeing Johnny Money doing his finest work proper on the finish, makes me really feel like simply because I’m previous doesn’t imply I’m ineffective.”
Following the second coming of its two predecessors – each sudden given his 2017 solo debut How The West Was Gained was Perrett’s first album in virtually 30 years while his sample of vanishing from sight was damaged by 2019’s follow-up Humanworld – The Cleaning doesn’t solely match his finest work however expands it: an formidable double album comprising 20 songs.
Alongside the album announcement, Perrett has confirmed a particular intimate present at London’s Moth Membership on 19 October.
Tracklist:
1. I Wanna Go With Dignity
2. Disinfectant
3. Fountain Of You
4. Secret Taliban Spouse
5. Solitary Confinement
6. Girls Gone Dangerous
7. Survival Mode
8. Combined Up Confucius
9. Do Not Resuscitate
10. The Cleaning
11. All That Time
12. Kill A Franco Spy
13. Set The Home On Hearth
14. Feast For Sore Eyes
15. There For You
16. Artwork Is A Illness
17. World In Chains
18. Again In The Gap
19. Much less Than Nothing
20. Crystal Clear
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