Former Blaenavon vocalist Ben Gregory announces debut solo album with new single "Manifest*"

After making his solo debut in November last year with "Deathbed Hangover", Ben Gregory has unveiled a second solo single titled "Manifest*", which arrives with a David J East-directed video and news of Gregory's debut solo album.

He says of the new single, ""manifest*" is about feeling fated to certain situations and lacking control over your own position in life. It looks towards a potential future that is desired but unlikely, focused on a partner and an imagined future family. There are elements of a slightly tragic fixation in there. The narrative retelling is real but it questions itself and cannot commit to painting an impossible future. The attempt was to portray this process of recollection, because people choose how they shape their own memories."

Gregory's debut solo album is titled Episode, and saw him work with producer Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets, and engineer Matt Twaites.

"Everything on Episode comes back to my struggle to interpret, or reinterpret, my life and its core relationships, after having my concept of reality revoked," Gregory explains. "This may sound dramatic, but it’s hard to know if you can trust how you feel about a partner, a situation, a future, when you’ve sat in a hospital bed, torn a newspaper to shreds, sat back and watched it put itself back together."

Tracklist:

1. storm of conversation
2. blue sea blue
3. ((fall away ’till morn..))
4. manifest*
5. deathbed hangover
6. mother’s son
7. smoke
8. god bless you