Savages’ Jehnny Beth and Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie announce new album, share new song: listen

Jehnny Beth and Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie have announced a collaborative album. Utopian ashes arrives July 2 via Third Man. Today Beth and Gillespie shared a music video directed by Douglas Hart for their first single “Remember We Were Lovers”. Find out below.

Beth and Gillespie first met in 2015, playing Suicide at the Barbican. In addition to Beth and Gillespie, Utopian ashes features Beth’s frequent collaborator Johnny Hostile (on bass) alongside Primal Scream trio Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (piano) and Darrin Mooney (drums). The record was inspired by classic soul country duets, such as “Grievous Angel” by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris and “We Go Together” by George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

“The same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here,” Beth said in press materials. “But you put yourself in it, because you are trying to understand the human situation. The song must be authentic. That’s all that matters. ”Gillespie added:

When you write a song, you marry the staff with the fiction and make the art. I thought of two people living alone, together but separated, existing and suffering from a mental illness, who plow because of responsibilities and commitments. It is about the impermanence of everything – an existential fact that everyone has to face at some point in their life.

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Utopian ashes:

01 Chase It Down
02 English town
03 remember we were lovers
04 your heart will always be broken
05 Stones of silence
06 you don’t know what love is
07 Self-proclaimed Void King
08 You can trust me now
09 living a lie
Ten Sunk in reverie