Gruff Rhys previews new album with third single "Mausoleum Of My Former Self"

After delivering "Can't Carry On" and "Loan Your Loneliness" as the first two previews of Seeking New Gods, Rhys has released a third taster of the record with "Mausoleum Of My Former Self".

He describes the song as being about "human ageing – people become different people but they’re still an avatar for who they used to be", and it's teamed with another Mark James-directed video.

Seeking New Gods will follow Rhys' 2019 album Pang!, and was recorded after a US tour with his band before being mixed in LA with producer Mario C (Beastie Boys).

Rhys set out to make his new album as a biography of Mount Paektu (an active volcano in East Asia), but the songs turned out more personal. He explains, "The album is about people and the civilisations, and the spaces people inhabit over periods of time. How people come and go but the geology sticks around and changes more slowly. I think it’s about memory and time. It’s still a biography of a mountain, but now it’s a Mount Paektu of the mind. You won’t learn much about the real mountain from listening to this record but you will feel something, hopefully."