TIM BOWNESS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘POWDER DRY’ AND SHARES FIRST SINGLE ‘ROCK HUDSON’ + VIDEO
23rd May 2024Tim Bowness has today shared details of his new album Powder Dry. Set for release on 16th August, the album will be Bowness’s first release on the Kscope label. The first single from Powder Dry is the propulsive Rock Hudson, a paranoid ode to online discourse. Produced and performed by Tim Bowness and mixed by his partner in no-man Steven Wilson, the song is accompanied by a vibrant abstract video by Matt Vickerstaff, which echoes Carl Glover’s artwork for the album.
Bowness says of the song, ‘Like all of the album Powder Dry, the song resulted from an attempt to capture a fleeting feeling as accurately as I could. This time the mood was dark, and there’s something of the spiky Post-Punk and Electro-Pop music of the early 1980s that captivated me as a teenager in the mix. Joy Division, The Cure, The The etc…’
Featuring 16 pieces over its restless 40-minute duration, Tim Bowness’s eighth studio album Powder Dry represents a new beginning on a new label.
STREAM/DOWNLOAD ‘ROCK HUDSON’A collection of acute contrasts, the album is a vibrantly accessible and wildly experimental genre-blurring assault, embracing Industrial Rock, Electro Pop, singer-songwriter directness, haunted carnival soundscapes, and more.
Entirely produced, performed, and written by Bowness (a first), Powder Dry was mixed (in stereo and Surround Sound) by Bowness’s partner in no-man (and The Album Years podcast), Steven Wilson, who also acted as Bowness’s sounding board during the mixing process.
‘I’ve had the pleasure to work on most of Tim’s solo albums, and for me this is the best and most creative of them all, partly because this time it’s truly a ‘solo’ album, showcasing not only his unique vocals but also his distinctive approach to production and performance. It’s totally Tim!’ – Steven Wilson
Chronicling descents into ideological extremism, eco-apocalypse, and the all-too-human quest for love in a time of crisis, the album is a constantly shifting kaleidoscope of sound; chasing feelings, searching for meanings, and trying to capture the ever-elusive nowness of now.
‘Powder Dry’ tracklist
Rock Hudson
Lost / Not Lost
When Summer Comes
Idiots At Large
A Stand-Up For The Dying
Old Crawler
Heartbreak Notes
Ghost Of A Kiss
Summer Turned
You Can Always Disappear
Powder Dry
Films Of Our Youth
This Way Now
I Was There
The Film Of Your Youth
Built To Last
Powder Dry’ will be presented on two beautiful, colored vinyl LP editions – pink and yellow – alongside a bonus CD edition with a 5.1 surround sound DVD included. Standard black vinyl LP and standard CD editions will also be available. Released on 16th August.
UPCOMING SHOWS
MAY 26, 2024
Load Street Studios, 3 Edwin Ave, Kidderminster UK
2 SETS – 2 pm + 7 pm
Only 25 tickets will be available for each set, so early booking is recommended for what promises to be a unique experience.
Doors Open – 1.30 pm and 6.30 pm for 2 pm and 7 pm performance times.
JUL 27, 2024
EppyFest 11 @ Smokey Joe’s Diner, 16 Bennington St, Cheltenham, GL50 4ED
Cheltenham, UK
DEC 1, 2024
The Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden, London NW5 3HS
Prog The Forest. Tim Bowness and Butterfly Mind will headline this year’s Prog The Forest.
