Angelo De Augustine reveals fourth solo album Toil and Trouble

The album’s lead single, "Another Universe", is released alongside a claymation video, written/directed by De Augustine and fabricated/animated by Owen Summers. The track follows last year's stand-alone double singles "27" and "Hologram".

Speaking of the "Another World", De Augustine says: "I grew tired of reality and so I decided to make a world of my own. It is a safe world. The kind of place in which only good things happen".

Toil and Trouble is De Augustine's first solo work since Tomb back in 2019. It also follows up A Beginner's Mind – his 2021 collaborative album with Sufjan Stevens.

Toil and Trouble sees the artist returning to the self-contained approach of his 2015 debut Spirals of Silence and 2017’s Swim Inside the Moon. De Augustine spent nearly three years working on arranging, recording, producing, and mixing Toil and Trouble on his own; shaping the album’s
ornately detailed sound by performing on 27 different instruments (including such oddities as a xylophone made of glass).

"This album came from thinking about the madness of the world right now and how overwhelming that can be," says De Augustine. "I used a sort of counter-world as a guide to try to gain some understanding of what’s actually going on here – I had to take myself out of reality in order to try to understand reality".

Tracklist:

1. Home Town
2. The Ballad Of Betty and Barney Hill
3. Memory Palace
4. Healing Waters
5. The Painter
6. I Don't Want To Live, I Don't Want To Die
7. Another Universe
8. Song Of The Siren
9. Blood Red Thorn
10. Naked Blade
11. D.W.O.M.M.
    
12. Toil and Trouble