Curtis Harding has released a new track, ‘The Power’, accompanied by a roller-disco video, ahead of his forthcoming album ‘Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt’, which is out this Friday. He will tour Europe in autumn, beginning 17th October.
Self-produced at Electric Deluxe Recorders in Austin, the studio owned by Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas, it follows 2021’s ‘If Words Were Flowers’. Recorded largely live with a full band, the record draws on elements of space-funk, baroque-pop and psych-rock, and closes with ‘Running Outta Space’.
“In the context of the record, that song could be about trying to find the power that will bring me back home,” says Harding. “But it also plays into what’s happening politically right now, where the people in power keep taking from us without giving anything in return. I wrote that song to give people some kind of release and remind them that no matter what’s going on in the world you still need to live life and have fun doing it.”
“Because I’m away from home so much of the time, a lot of these songs came from feeling adrift and wanting to get back to the ones I love,” he says. “I started envisioning this character who takes a journey and gets lost in space, then ends up traveling through different galaxies and dimensions as he’s trying to find his way back home.”
“I produced my first album, so this felt like a return, although this time I was more confident and capable of sonically going where I wanted to go,” says Harding. “I really love the process of building worlds in the studio, doing what I want in the moment and experimenting with new sounds instead of doing the same thing over and over.”
“Sometimes when you’re feeling lost, hearing from someone else who’s felt the same way can let you know you’re not alone—that’s really the whole sentiment of the album,” says Harding. “I hope these songs help people to recognize that feeling lost is all part of the journey, and that the journey is what’s most important anyway. And once you realize that, you’re on the right path. You’re already on your way home.”
The dates read:
OCTOBER
17 Wagon, Madrid, Spain
18 Sala Paral·lel 62, Barcelona, Spain
21 TPO, Bologna, Italy
23 MONK, Rome, Italy
24 Santeria Toscana 31, Milan, Italy
26 Mühle Hunziken, Bern, Switzerland
28 L’Olympia, Paris, France
30 Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
31 Musikforeningen Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark
NOVEMBER
1 Grosse Freiheit 36, Hamburg, Germany
3 TivoliVredenburg Ronda, Utrecht, Netherlands
4 Essigfabrik, Cologne, Germany
5 Botanique Orangerie, Brussels, Belgium
9 Opium, Dublin, Ireland
10 Óran Mór, Glasgow, United Kingdom
11 Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom
12 O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, United Kingdom
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