Independent but stronger together.
Independent but stronger together.
It is such an honour to add Gruff Rhys to the double dinked gang with his beautiful and stirring new Sadness Sets Me Free LP.
+ Dinked Edition 264
+ Rough Trade Records
+ 24th January 2024
+ ‘Honeycomb Neo-Neapolitan’ vinyl *
+ Bonus track 7” (etched B-side) *
+ Signed 12” x 12” print *
+ Sleeve with opening ‘container doors’
+ Foil numbered edition *
+ Limited pressing of 1500 *
* EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
In a career that has taken him from the slate-mining towns of north-west Wales, down to the expat communities of Patagonia, up to the Mandan tribe of the Great Plains of North America and across to the Tuareg rock groups of the Saharan Desert, Gruff Rhys, one of Britain’s most beloved and successful singer-songwriters, has always been willing to follow an opportunity, wherever it may lead him. “At this point I quite like working with serendipity,” he says. “Not in a cosmic way, [but] I try and leave things open to chance encounters and chance geography. As I'm around 25 albums in I’m always looking for ways to make a different-sounding record”