Aidan Moffat and The Twilight Sad's James Graham form Gentle Sinners and announce debut album

"Face To Fire (After Nyman)" is the second track to be lifted from Gentle Sinners' debut album, following last year's debut single "Killing This Time", which was followed by b-side "DTM" in January.

Graham wrote of the new song, "I wrote "Face to Fire" the night Aidan sent over the music for it, I recorded it the next day. I had written down the words "fearlessly terrified" on my phone a couple of days before. My anxiety had started to take over again - throughout my life I’ve been so scared of simple interactions with people yet I’m able to project my innermost feelings to the world on a regular basis. It doesn’t make sense to me. I’d been feeling physically ill for a few years, tired all the time and I had tried everything to feel better with no success.""

Moffat said of their band name, "Gentle sin' is a wee phrase I've always liked. In the play it's part of a flirtatious kiss, where the rules of etiquette are broken with a cheeky wink, sort of like a Shakespearean Sid James moment. But with a different kind of sinning in mind, I thought it really suited the songs we were making too, i.e. mistakes and disasters without pity or malice."

On how they formed Gentle Sinners, Graham explained, "A couple of days before I left Aidan and I met up and walked around Queens Park. I mentioned to him I wanted to do something outside of the band but had no idea on how to go about it. I wasn’t expecting him to suggest working together, I was just looking for some advice as I’ve loved everything he’s done in his solo career. Hearing what he’d done inside and outside of Arab Strap, I could see that they both complimented each other and helped him exercise different ways of writing. I wanted that. I wanted to try new things, I wanted to see what else was inside me. He suggested we work together and that he had some music he could send me. I said yes straight away."

He added of their debut album These Actions Cannot Be Undone, "The subject matter was hard but writing it was easy. Working with Aidan has been a dream. Most of these songs were written and recorded within days. It all just came very naturally and I never questioned the words or the feelings that came out of me."

Tracklist:

1. Waiting For Nothing
2. Killing This Time
3. Let Them Rot (ft. AKG)
4. The Cries
5. Date & Sign
6. Rent Free
7. Shores of Anhedonia
8. Face To Fire (After Nyman)
9. Don't Say Goodnight
10. Landfill