Daniel Knox announces first album in three years, Mercado 48

Speaking of lead single ‘Alligator’ Knox says: "I spent a lot of time at this cafe called Asa de Mosca (Wings Of The Fly). There’s a lot of characters there. One guy comes in and tries to sell me things he stole. I usually buy them. He sold me a little wooden elephant, a small fan shaped like a monkey, and one time he tried to sell me what he called a computer that was really just some kind of touch screen kiosk he’d clearly ripped out of the wall somewhere. My long hair and beard get a lot of stares but I like coming to this cafe because on any given night I’m only the third weirdest looking person here."

"Sometimes I’ll sit here reading or doing work but my mind gets up and walks around without me. It starts walking three or four blocks away, sits in some other cafe by itself, crosses the street and comes back to watch me from the window outside. After living here for a few years I sometimes have these moments of perspective where I get to see myself outside of myself; as though I were just another one of these characters here. There’s that thing you face at this age where you still want to be the character in some old novel but then you are sitting on the couch watching your new 4K discs of Alligator and Alligator II and you have to reconcile that with who you are and who you want to be," he continues.

The album, which follows since 2021's Won't You Take Me With You, was recorded over two nights at local shop in Porto – Mercado 48.

Tracklist:

1. Worst Of All Worlds
2. Don’t Fucking Move
3. Alligator
4. Abandon Ship
5. Scratch The Itch
6. Middle Names
7. Anything That You Lost
8. Finders Takers
9. Never Baby
10. Forcive Habit
11. Guess Not
12. April 3rd
13. April Prelude
14. Snails
15. Of The Body