Eugene McGuinness debut album release

Domino are proud to announce the release of Eugene McGuinness' self-titled debut full length album, on October 13th.

After The Early Learnings Of - a mini album of 8 songs - was released to great critical acclaim last year on Domino's Publishing Label Double Six, Eugene headed to the studio to make his first full album proper for Domino. The result is twelve utterly charming pop tracks, which skip between boundaries with gleeful abandon and an acidic sense of humour.

From the post-punk sturm and drang of Fonz to the skiffle-beat pop confections of Rings Around Rosa to the disarmingly beautiful 30's-style balladeering of Those Black And White Movies, the album veers from unabashed, starry-eyed romance to pre-coital forked-tongue come-ons via a sound that's simultaneously cinematic and yet endearingly ramshackle.

Eugene McGuinness' album contains knowing winks and phrases drawn from personal experience, but mostly made up scenarios full of joyous verve and unpredictability. It is a collection of songs gloriously out of time yet thoroughly modern, with one foot in reality and the other somewhere else entirely, where every silver lining has a cloud and one unexpected turn of phrase can lead you down a new musical rabbit hole.

Moscow State Circus will be the first single taken from the album, released on October 27th.

Eugene McGuinness will be available on CD (WIGCD218), vinyl (WIGLP218) and via digital download (WIG218D).

Tracklisting is as follows:

1. Rings Around Rosa 7. Atlas
2. Fonz 8. Knock Down Ginger
3. Wendy Wonders 9. Crown The Clown
4. Moscow State Circus 10. Not So Academic
5. Those Old BW Movies 11. Disneyfied
6. Nightshift 12. God In Space

Eugene McGuinness will be playing a free show as part of his album launch party on Tuesday 14th October at the Wilmingon Arms in London (69 Rosebery Avenue, EC1) and will open up for Of Montreal on Oct 16th at Koko in London. Further dates to be announced shortly.