Angelo De Augustine has introduced a brand new album: Angel in Plainclothes is about for launch on April 24 by way of Asthmatic Kitty. The follow-up to 2023’s Toil and Bother is led by the mesmerizing new single, ‘Mirror Mirror’, which finds him singing, “Inform me your mom in heaven received’t cry in useless/ The way in which you deal with your life prefer it’s only a sport/ Tumbling down like an limitless waterfall.” Test it out and discover the album cowl and tracklist beneath.
“Normally after I make music, I’ll sit down with one instrument and write the tune,” De Augustine defined in a press launch. “In ‘Mirror Mirror,’ I didn’t follow this precept and was messing round with the tape machine’s varispeed function- seeing what would occur if I slowed down what I’d recorded on the bowed psaltery, creating an uncommon droning noise. The tune got here from experimenting with layering sound in a really free approach and watching because the construction of a tune revealed itself.”
In early 2022, after collapsing and being hospitalized with an undiagnosed sickness, De Augustine went via an arduous journey of relearning learn how to stroll, discuss, see, hear, and play music. “After I made Toil and Bother I used to be in a extremely unhealthy state, having simply been launched from the hospital and solely about midway via the recording of the album,” the singer-songwriter stated. “I had accepted that I used to be going to die and that I ought to do all I might to complete the document. I didn’t imagine that I used to be going to outlive the sickness, not to mention ever make music once more.
“The expertise sadly broke me and every little thing that I assumed that I knew or might depend on,” he continued. “With this new document, I’m attempting to select up the items of who I used to be and determine who I’m now. I’m on a journey the place I really feel like I could have been given a second probability at life, and I’d wish to reside it.”
Revisit our Artist Highlight interview with Angelo De Augustine.
Angel in Plainclothes Cowl Art work:
Angel in Plainclothes Tracklist:
1. Empty Shell
2. Pet Cemetery
3. Spirit of The Unknown
4. The Remedy
5. Mirror Mirror
6. Cosmic Journey
7. The Universe Was Our Mom
8. With a Love So Form
9. Photos On My Wall
10. Goodbye Child Blue
