Eugene McGuinness announces new album 'The Invitation To The Voyage'

Eugene McGuinness, The Invitation To The Voyage, released on 25th June 2012.

Equally primal and playful, swaggering yet soulful, anthemic but sonically experimental, The Invitation To The Voyage is the second full-length album from Eugene McGuinness and his most powerfully conceived and fully realised artistic statement to date.

Recorded with the dual assistance of producers Clive Langer (Madness, Elvis Costello, Morrissey) and Dan Carey (MIA, Hot Chip, Santigold), The Invitation is an unabashedly bombastic, brave and above all, thoroughly contemporary update on a distinctly English strand of lyrical, gently fantastical pop songwriting that locates and celebrates the beautiful and the bizarre in modern life.

The track list is as follows:

1. Harlequinade
2. Sugarplum
3. Lion
4. Videogame
5. Shotgun
6. Concrete Moon
7. Thunderbolt
8. Invitation To The Voyage
9. Joshua
10. Japanese Cars

Full Eugene McGuinness live dates are as follows:

20th April: Nottingham: Rock City *
21st April: Glasgow: Barrowlands *
22nd April: Dundee: Fat Sams *
23rd April: Inverness: Iron Works *
25th April: Leeds: Academy *
26th April: Manchester: Academy 1 *
27th April: Bristol: Academy *
28th April: London: Forum *
5th May: London: Camden Crawl, venue TBA
18th May: Liverpool Sound City, Kazimier, with White Denim

(* = dates with Miles Kane)

Watch videos directed by long term collaborators, the Grammy-nominated, Sundance-shortlisted Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern (thirtytwo) for singles Lion and Shotgun below:

Lion:


Shotgun: