{"title":"Mighty Village Records","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"thea-gilmore","title":"Thea Gilmore","description":"\u003cp\u003e20 albums and 25 years into her recording career and only now does Thea Gilmore feel enough of herself to make the self-titled album that renews her vows to music - her first love. The album was entirely written, played and produced by Thea. Thea Gilmore is absolutely the record she wanted to make. In many ways the record she had to make. Sustained by the very public dissection of her personal life laid bare on her last full-length release, the stunningly intimate Afterlight, Thea's hard-earned reputation as one of the most distinctive, strident and bold singer songwriters of her generation propels her to reach for new ground and this new release feels like a great leap forward into tomorrow. \"That's why this is my first self-titled album,\" she explains. \"On my last album I changed by name to Afterlight and drew a line under everything I'd done up to that point. Not to invalidate it, but to put an end to the 'before'. It was a very inward-looking record that was rooted in the darkness of everything that happened to me up to 2019, whereas this album has its head up and is eyeing the world as a challenge. It's a logical forward motion - the emergence from the shadows of Afterlight into the relative lightness of Thea Gilmore - in a renewal of my vows to music; my first love. In a weird way it feels like a debut of sorts so it made sense to make it eponymous.\" Across 12 tracks Thea delves into the cracks between the paving slabs of life's big themes. She's exploring the understanding that comes with experience, choosing her battles and finding out who she is now. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mighty Village Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50429187555659,"sku":"2046724","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50429189980491,"sku":"2055104","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Thea-Gilmore-Thea-Gilmore-LP-135550-1-1688029128_5789234f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726838139"},{"product_id":"afterlight","title":"Afterlight","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s 25-years since Thea Gilmore embarked on a career in music. For 23 of them, she made records that are treasured by loyal fans and mark her out as a singer-songwriter of searing talent. But something wasn’t right… behind the public image of the fearless singer songwriter, she was living a life contained. Although she has an incredible 18 albums to her name, only now has she freed herself of that control – not so much a new artist as an artist renewed. She says: “Now is a time to draw lines. Now is a time for and end and a beginning. The last Thea Gilmore album and the first Afterlight album. Welcome back to the start….”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo records, released together, that share the same subject matter but stylistically are worlds apart. Self-titled \u003ci\u003eAfterlight\u003c\/i\u003e was made in 2020; its companion piece \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation of Eva Grey\u003c\/i\u003e was imagined 100 years ago, at the height of the jazz age, with two tracks that feature on the soundtrack to the new film adaptation of Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ (2020) starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher and Judi Dench. For the first time since she was 16 years-old Thea Gilmore has been able to create music on her own terms, free to make her own choices, liberated from other people’s fears and no longer hiding from her own in the name of her art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs sprang from the end of Thea’s 23-year relationship with her producer\/husband, a collaboration mired in coercive control, mistreatment and infidelity that left her “hollowed out, mostly air, a lacework of a person held together by bones and the threads of a story.” “It was my own sort of control I suppose. There was a safety in it and it stopped anyone looking in too far. I gave them a perfect picture of the headstrong, feisty artist because that was who I wanted to be. It took 23 years of my life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mighty Village Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50475445125451,"sku":"1131383","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f03a29d2-5ed0-40dd-8a5a-be16985d00c6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727446911"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/mighty-village-records.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}