Cowboy Junkies annoncerer nyt album – Such Ferious Beauty ude d. 2/6

“Within our own humanity there is great heartache and misery but also great joy and comfort.  There is nothing more humbling to me than the ferocious beauty we live amongst, including life and death.” - Margo Timmins
 
Cowboy Junkies er endelig tilbage med annonceringen af deres nye album Such Ferocious Beauty, der udkommer d. 2. juni 2023 på Cooking Vinyl / Playground Music. Det kommende album markerer første nye materiale fra bandet i fem år, og følger op på deres samling af covers Songs of the Recollection fra 2022.
 
Such Feroious Beauty er vintage Cowboy Junkies og viser samtidig en anden dimension fra det canadiske band bestående af de tre søskende Margo, Michael og Peter Timmins samt deres livslange ven Alan Anton. Albummet behandler tanker om at blive ældre, at indse sin dødelighed og det at gøre plads til ens eget liv.
 
På Such Ferious Beauty har Michael og Margo brugt meget mere tid på at arbejde sangene igennem, og Margo har haft til tid virkelig at gennemarbejde sine fortolkninger, før de begyndte at indspille. Mens de har været i studiet har Michael, Alan og Peter kreeret mere dynamiske tracks end nogensinde før.
“This is a different kind of recording; there’s a denseness to it. In many ways the music, the choice of certain structures, the tones used become as important in communicating the albums themes as do the lyrics.”  
“The songs are expressions of Mike’s soul,” fortæller Margo Timmins, “but once written, once he gives them to me, to the band, and eventually the audience, there is no right or wrong interpretation.”  
 
’What I Lost’, den første single fra det kommende album, reflekterer over de sidste måneder af Margo, Michael og Peters fars liv. Sangen er en refleksion af de samtaler Michael havde med sin far, mens faderen kæmpede med sin demens: “memories of his flying days as a bush pilot in northern Quebec and his love of jazz and his experiences of seeing the great big-bands of the 50's would often work their way into our conversations. I would often think about all of those memories and experiences that were slowly being eaten away by the dementia and would eventually completely disappear with his death. Lines like “This is what I lost” and “I can sit here and wait” from “What I Lost” and “Shadows 2” are not so much about him, but about me.”
 
‘What I Lost’ kommer med en video, hvorpå Peter Timmins har skabt en kunstnerisk fortolkning af følgevirkningerne ved demens for de pårørende.
“The man in the video is our father,” fortæller Michael Timmins, “sitting in his living room listening to Duke Ellington...I'm not sure what he is thinking. The color "super 8" footage is from the late 50's taken in Montreal and Magog Quebec by our Grandfather (our Mom's dad). The people in it are my Dad, Mom and Aunt (Mom's sister)...there are some quick glances of our oldest brother and an Uncle (my Mom’s brother). There are also a few quick flashes of family pics of all the kids (us and our siblings).”
 
Se videoen og lyt til ‘What I Lost’ her.
 
SUCH FEROCIOUS BEAUTY trackliste:
 1. What I Lost
2. Flood
3. Hard To Build. Easy To Break.
4. Circe and Penelope
5. Hell Is Real
6. Shadows 2
7. Knives
8. Mike Tyson (Here It Comes)
9. Throw A Match
10. . Blue Skies