Album artwork for Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys
Album artwork for Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys
Album artwork for Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys

Gruff Rhy releases his new album Seeking New Gods through Rough Trade Records. This is Gruff’s seventh solo album. Seeking New Gods was recorded following a US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys).

The album concept was originally driven to be the biography of a mountain, Mount Paektu (an East Asian active volcano). However, as Gruff’s writing began to reflect on the inhuman timescale of a peak’s existence and the intimate features that bring it to mythological life, both the songs and the mountain became more and more personal.

“The album is about people and the civilisations, and the spaces people inhabit over periods of time. How people come and go but the geology sticks around and changes more slowly. I think it’s about memory and time,” he suggests of Seeking New Gods’ meaning. “It’s still a biography of a mountain, but now it’s a Mount Paektu of the mind. You won’t learn much about the real mountain from listening to this record but you will feel something, hopefully.”- Gruff Rhys

Gruff Rhys

Seeking New Gods

Rough Trade
Album artwork for Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys
LP

£22.99

Mountain Die Cut Envelope-Style Sleeve with a Belly Band.

Dark Green.

Released 21/05/2021Catalogue Number

RT0127LP2

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Album artwork for Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys
CD

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Released 21/05/2021Catalogue Number

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Gruff Rhys

Seeking New Gods

Rough Trade
Album artwork for Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys
LP

£22.99

Mountain Die Cut Envelope-Style Sleeve with a Belly Band.

Dark Green.

Released 21/05/2021Catalogue Number

RT0127LP2

Learn more
Album artwork for Seeking New Gods by Gruff Rhys
CD

£11.99

Released 21/05/2021Catalogue Number

RT0127CD

Learn more

Gruff Rhy releases his new album Seeking New Gods through Rough Trade Records. This is Gruff’s seventh solo album. Seeking New Gods was recorded following a US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys).

The album concept was originally driven to be the biography of a mountain, Mount Paektu (an East Asian active volcano). However, as Gruff’s writing began to reflect on the inhuman timescale of a peak’s existence and the intimate features that bring it to mythological life, both the songs and the mountain became more and more personal.

“The album is about people and the civilisations, and the spaces people inhabit over periods of time. How people come and go but the geology sticks around and changes more slowly. I think it’s about memory and time,” he suggests of Seeking New Gods’ meaning. “It’s still a biography of a mountain, but now it’s a Mount Paektu of the mind. You won’t learn much about the real mountain from listening to this record but you will feel something, hopefully.”- Gruff Rhys