Gruff Rhys Announces new track “Silver Lining Lead Balloons”
November 7, 2023
Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce the second track from his new album “Silver Lining Lead Balloons” taken from his 25th Album “Sadness Sets Me Free” which is released by Rough Trade Records on 26.01.2024. Gruff says about his new track: “Its about facing reality and not trying to overstate something that isn’t all that. But it’s deadpan. I’m not being totally serious. At the end I’m singing “I left my dreams in a rental car”, which is quite a pathetic image, and then its followed by the last lines, “Live for now/ and dream afar”. The version of me that’s singing it is quite a road-worncharacter – literally. I’d been driving around Europe in a van, with war starting out. So maybe that mindset.”
Another elegiacally beautiful track by Rhys, the track is accompanied by a shimmering visual that compliments the care-worn wonderment of the music, watch now. Expect “Silver Lining Lead Balloons” to be one of the stand-out new tracks that Gruff and his band perform on a series of sold-out dates through 2024 across the UK, Europe and USA.
December 1st – Glasgow Barrowlands w/ The Coral
December 2nd – Liverpool Olympia w/ The Coral
January 26th – 1st February – UK Instore Tour
February 2nd – Aberystwyth, Arts Centre
February 7th – London, Kings Place (Sold Out)
February 8th – London, Kings Place
February 10th – Manchester, New Century Hall (Sold Out)
February 14th – Belfast, Empire Music Hall
February 15th – Dublin, Sugar Club (Sold Out)
February 16th – Dublin, Sugar Club
February 19th – Glasgow, St Lukes
February 22nd – Bristol, Strange Brew (Sold Out)
February 23rd – Bristol, Strange Brew
February 24th – Narberth, Queens Hall.
February 28th – Berlin, Badehaus
February 29th – Hamburg, Nachtasyl
March 2nd – Koln, Theater De Wogngemeinschaft
March 3rd – Amsterdam, Zonzij
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Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets me Free
26 January 2024
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