Danny George Wilson, who releases his new album ‘Arcade‘ on 20th March via Loose Music, has been confirmed as a special guest on The Handsome Family‘s forthcoming UK tour in May. Coinciding with the announcement, Wilson has today unveiled the title track to the new album.
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“Arcade’ is a song about youth culture and nostalgia…a mix of sadness and gratitude” reflects Wilson. “Doffing a cap to the classic and influential ‘Subway Art’ book that emerged in 1984, a first taste of Dinosaur Jr’s ‘Freak Scene’ and Sonic Youth’s ‘Teenage Riot’ and memories of Sutton’s long demolished Arcade.”
The Handsome Family Support Tour – May 2026:
Sun 17th – The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Mon 18th- Brudenell, Leeds
Tue 19th – St Luke’s, Glasgow
Sat 23rd – Union Chapel, London
Sun 24th – Union Chapel, London
Wed 27th – St George, Bristol
Thu 28th – The Wedgewood, Portsmouth
Sat 30th – Stoller Hall, Manchester
Sun 31st – Tung Auditorium, Liverpool
‘Arcade’ finds Danny George Wilsonreturning to Hamish Benjamin’s studio in East Sussex – five years on from his startling, post-lockdown solo album Another Place – to construct its sequel. With Lewes-based Benjamin and right-hand man Henry Garratt, again given free rein, ‘Arcade’ presents a fresh collection of sonically inventive, deeply romantic songs, with atmosphere taking primacy over meaning, and narrative dissolving. As Wilson tells it:
“The songs are about the ways we deal with losing people, time, place, or don’t deal with it… Looking back, we discover what was always there, or things that are just easier to ignore – different and contradictory perspectives. And I wanted a chance to work with Hamish and Henry again, and this seemed like their thing, and it was”.
Traditional instrumentation meets technology; the majority of tracks feature a string quartet, while Benjamin and Garratt employ synthesiser and mellotron along with a plethora of guitars. Gerry Love again provides backing vocals with cameos from Emma Tricca and Annie Dressner. Fragile, tender, full of uncertainty, ultimately ‘Arcade’ is a song-cycle in which the premise of each track subverts the previous, and demonstrates most assuredly, we still move in doubt.
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