Posthumous Success, Tom Brosseau‘s first new album of studio material in two years and his third FatCat full-length release (8th in total), is due for release May 11th.
Posthumous Success marks development in recording styles for Tom: 2006’s Empty Houses Are Lonely was collected and compiled from previous releases, while 2007’s Cavalier – Brosseau’s acclaimed 2nd FatCat release – was produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels, Tracy Chapman) and recorded in one week in one studio, Toybox Studio in Bristol. For this record, however, Adam Pierce produced half the tracks on Posthumous Success in upstate NY, alongside Ethan Rose’s work on the other half of the record in Portland, Oregon. Two producers, two sets of guest musicians, recorded on separate US coasts, the album’s effect is a collection of different styles, different instrumentation, different intricacies in different places, but always held together by Tom’s captivating, vibrato-soaked voice, his ability to let single notes gently resonate with a near-unearthly emotional grasp and his evident, laudable reluctance to bow to fleeting trends.
Brosseau recently spoke of the inspiration behind the album title: “The title of the album I’ve been carrying around since my freshman year. It’s of the last chapter in the life of Albert Camus, the Nobel prize French author who died in a car wreck. Camus had been working on something at the time. It would not be published for 35 years – The First Man.”
Here’s a recent Bandstand Busking session from Brosseau, ‘The Cut, part 2′ recorded last winter at Arnold Circus in London.
mp3:> Tom Brosseau: ‘Favourite Colour Blue’
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