Gruff Rhys releases new cut "Can't Carry On"

"Can't Carry On" follows last month's lead single "Loan Your Loneliness", and features backing vocals from Lisa Jen-Brown and Mirain Haf.

The new song, which Rhys says is about "when reality catches up with delusion and the search for a guiding hand out of a heavy situation", is accompanied by a 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."