[ Mute / LP/CD ]
Release Date: Monday 29 April 2013
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
This is the former Bad Seed and PJ Harvey collaborator's sixth solo studio album, and the follow up to 2011's Sketches from the Book of the Dead. FOUR (Acts of Love) is a contemplation on romantic love - it's loss, re-awakening, our ongoing struggles with it and its place in our universe. The album is a song cycle, divided into 3 Acts.
The album features original compositions by Mick Harvey alongside a song by long time collaborator PJ Harvey ('Glorious') and interpretations of The Saints' 'The Story of Love', Van Morrison's 'The Way Young Lovers Do', Exuma's 'Summertime in New York' and Roy Orbison's 'Wild Hearts (Run Out of Time)'. FOUR (Acts of Love) was recorded at Grace Lane, North Melbourne and Atlantis Sound, Melbourne and features regular collaborators Rosie Westbrook on double bass and JP Shilo on guitar and violin.
Side A
Act 1 - SUMMERTIME IN NEW YORK
1. Praise the Earth (Wheels of Amber and Gold)
2. Glorious
3. Midnight on the Ramparts
4. Summertime in New York
5. Where There's Smoke (before)
Act 2 - THE STORY OF LOVE
6. God Made the Hammer
7. I Wish That I Were Stone
Side B
8. The Way Young Lovers Do
9. A Drop, An Ocean
10. The Story of Love
Act 3 - WILD HEARTS RUN OUT OF TIME
11. Where There's Smoke (after)
12. Wild Hearts
13. Fairy Dust
14. Praise the Earth (An Ephemeral Play)