{"product_id":"good-grief-3","title":"Good Grief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood Grief\u003c\/em\u003e is the first new solo album in 25 years from songwriter and producer \u003cstrong\u003eBernard Butler\u003c\/strong\u003e. Between then and now, Butler had ventured into the world of pop songwriting and producing, including two seminal albums with folk musician Sam Lee, a Mercury-nominated project with actor Jessie Buckley, as well as working with Bert Jansch and Ben Watt from Everything But The Girl, The Libertines, Tricky, and an eight-million-selling, Grammy-winning record with Duffy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf returning to solo work after two and a half decades, Butler says, ‘For a good while I was scarred and I was scared. I was happily distracted and joyously involved with so much music. I realized just being there was more than I had ever hoped for. I gave a lot to other people, but realized that my story was defined by what I was, rather than what I am. I set myself a modest commercial goal, an expectant creative one: perform to 10 people without being bottled, then find 11 the next night. Thus began the undoing of my own embarrassment. I would write as I thought and sing as I wrote until the bottles fly. And so, the songs arrived.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernard\u003c\/strong\u003e booked himself into a rehearsal space in Holloway every Wednesday afternoon for months, just him, a guitar, and a microphone. The first fruit of these sessions is the new single ‘\u003cem\u003eCamber Sands\u003c\/em\u003e’, “For years and years I have drawn straight lines from North London to every coastline I could see. To life-worn Londoners escape is the dream and return most likely. The story I found was not the sea but the journey. \u003cem\u003eCamber Sands\u003c\/em\u003e, Mersea Island, Dunwich, or a dozen more horizons of possibility, the sea and the seawalls, and the endless return to face the city. \u003cem\u003eCamber Sands\u003c\/em\u003e is a love song - we flee the past, the present, ourselves, to survive, to defy. The loneliest music of the resolute, the half-light and the saddest tunes.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRound circle shows with friends Norman Blake and James Grant across Scotland gave Butler the taste for venturing back out on stage, and while writing with Jessie Buckley for the Mercury Prize-nominated \u003cem\u003eFor All Our Days That Tear the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e album, Bernard tucked away his own discoveries and continued the journey once Buckley returned to the silver screen. Confronting his own songwriting process, he wrote words down, away from the security of his guitar, before carving music around the lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood Grief\u003c\/em\u003e finds \u003cstrong\u003eBernard Butler\u003c\/strong\u003e owning three decades of work, free to perform, bookended by wildly contrasting experiences of loss, joy, and bewilderment. The album is a journey from city to coast and back, and between it, an entire spectrum of human emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"355 Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Silver LP","offer_id":50421767438667,"sku":"2191762","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50421765505355,"sku":"2191761","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50421763375435,"sku":"2191760","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bernard_butler_d4ad2859_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726760324","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/good-grief-3","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}