Withered Hand - How To Love
Making the nine years it took UK folk-rock troubadour Withered Hand to release his long-awaited 'How To Love' LP (his first new music in nearly a decade, out now via Reveal Records), he has shared his behind-the-scenes 'Making 'How To Love' video and announced a series of UK shows.
The nom de plume of Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Dan Willson (originally from London), Withered Hand continues to live up to his reputation as one of Scotland’s most gifted songwriters. He has garnered worldwide support and heavy airplay on tastemaker stations including BBC 6 Music and Amazing Radio.
Produced, recorded and mixed by renowned producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, David Byrne, Teenage Fanclub, The Twilight Sad, Belle & Sebastian, The Delgados) at Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow, the new album features guest appearances by King Creosote and Mercury-nominated English songwriter Kathryn Williams.
Earlier, Withered Hand released the singles 'Feelings', 'Crippled Love', with an exclusive live acoustic version, and the lead track 'Waking Up', along with a radio edit involvving producer Mark Freegard (The Breeders, Del Amitri, New Model Army, Lush, Pale Saints),
"My own mental health struggles in the past meant life got really dark before I was willing to surrender three years ago and become willing to learn to live sober," says Dan Willson. "The songs on ‘How To Love’ are imbued with my attempts to keep stumbling away from living like that".
Willson began writing songs and singing in his thirties following the birth of his first child and the death of a close friend. With a wayward tenor and unaffected charm onstage, he has come to be celebrated as a songwriter and lyricist of rare wit and remarkable honesty. With songs picked up by MTV and cult series 'Skins', he's gained a legion of fans including Jarvis Cocker and Rolling Stone USA, who deemed him an Artist to Watch.
Withered Hand's acclaimed 'New Gods' LP (2014) was released via Slumberland Records, featuring luminaries from Belle & Sebastian, Frightened Rabbit, The Vaselines, and Pam Berry of seminal noisepop band Black Tambourine, propelling the album straight into the charts.
The 'How To Love' album is available everywhere digitally, including Apple Music and Spotify, and in all format (vinyl, CD and digitally) via Bandcamp.
