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Available as a discounted bundle, the new Matt Owens & The Delusional Vanity album Way Out West (Vinyl plus exclusive CD) and the band t-shirt.
Includes unlimited streaming of Way Out West
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Having forged a decent CV as an in-demand guitar-slinger in recent years (most notably for Robert Vincent and Hannah White,) both feature here with star turns, Mr Vincent even showing his hand as a master blues harp player. Keiron Marshall regularly guests for a three-guitar attack and for one of the finest moments on the record, stepping up for an exquisite solo on “Hope the Darkness Pulls You Through.”
After selling a million records for the best part of a decade with folk/pop indie darlings Noah and the Whale, few would choose to replace the arenas with Ireland’s most intimate West Coast Bars but Owens toured The Emerald Isle 14 times in 2014 alone.
Few still, would tackle such divisive themes as Death, Divorce, Ageing, Sex, Heartache, the demise of his industry (which many are in denial of,) and explore an overt appreciation of ice-cold beer and old guitars so unflinchingly head-on, whilst still pulling off such a joyous squall.
The album is titled Way Out West.
Way Out West was the name of the guitar store (down the road from Twickenham Station) where Owens’ bought his first electric guitar.
Way Out West was what the Irish called the far-flung parts of Cork, Shannon and Kerry where he began to re-connect with the cornerstones of his song-writing at the height of Noah and the Whale.
Way Out West was what fellow Londoners thought of Bath, when he announced out-of-the-blue he was downing tools and moving to Somerset. It’s where he now revels with his Bath-based Band.
With the group 18 months more “road-tight’ and battle-hardened than their greener selves that cut Beer For The Horses, The D.V.P recorded at Bert Jansch Studio in Frome (fast becoming a West Country institution with Ethan Johns being a regular.) There’s more swagger, more guile, and a hard won “pawnshop telepathy” (another discarded album title) that has crept into the ether.
It's his strongest batch of songs to date.
credits
released February 16, 2024
All songs by Matt Owens
Matt Owens: Vocals, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitars, electric guitars, harmonica tack piano on The Bard of The Bars & You’re Not Gone
The Delusional Vanity Project
Jimmy Besley: Drums and Percussion
Duncan Kingston: Bass and Upright
James Jack: Electric Guitars and feedback
Geoffrey Widdowson: Organs and keyboards
Jim Godfrey: Piano, Rhodes, synth
Camilla Skye: Vocals
Eddie Johns: Drums on 5 years into Marriage, You’re Not Gone, Both Sides of the Line, The Bard of the Bars, Blindsided by Time
Hannah White: vocals on 5 years into Marriage
Keiron Marshall: solo on Darkness, guitar on Death Sickness and Heartache, Glasgow City Lights
Robert Vincent: vocals on Glasgow City Lights, Both Sides of the Line, harmonica One for The Grapes
Produced by Matt Owens and Milo Ferreira-Hayes with additional production from James Jack and The Delusional Vanity Project
Just turned on to Margo and I'm really glad I did. Valley of Heart's Delight is a solid recording from top to bottom. The songwriting is sophisticated and Ciker's voice is something to behold. Beggar for Your Love is my favorite cut so far, and the lyric "You can get a good line to hold up a song if the rhyme's right," although simple, is damn close to perfect. Looking forward to seeing her and her band live real soon. sutebensan
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A very clever songwriter and an album that bears many, many repeat listens. Worth the price for the Little Feat reference (in Tehachapi) alone, but it's her way with an image that sticks longest. "You left the building in a flurry / Had your boots on in the house." Caoimhín