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Tracklist:

1. Sadness Sets Me Free
2. Bad Friend
3. Celestial Candyfloss
4. Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)
5. On The Far Side of the Dollar
6. They Sold My Home To Build A Skyscraper
7. Peace Signs
8. Cover Up The Cover Up
9. I Tendered My Resignation
10. Ill Keep Singing

Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce his new album Sadness Sets Me Free which will be released by Rough Trade Records on 26.01.2024. This incredibly will be the 25th album he has released in his 35 year career individually, collaboratively and as a member of various bands. Sadness Sets Me Free is also the follow up to 2021s Seeking new Gods, his first solo top ten record.

Lead-off single Celestial Candyfloss is a telling four minute glimpse of the forthcoming album, revealing the heady wonders and classic pop sounds within. Soaring strings carry the sweet melodies along, anchored by just enough necessary melancholy to add emotional ballast. The eye-popping video was created by long-time collaborator Mark James and compliments the scope and style of the song on a galactic scale.

Celestial Candyfloss is, Gruff says, an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance. Mark James has brought the Sadness Sets Me Free album cover to life & managed to place me watching TV interference in a shipping container thats lost in space. For what is apparently the 25th album Ive had a hand in writing Ive reverted to a rich seam of inspiration relating to shedding some light on sadness and the general terror of cosmic loneliness.