Underworld's Karl Hyde has announced details of his first solo album.
The frontman will drop Edgeland on April 22 through Universal, with assistance from co-producer Leo Abrahams – who has worked on soundtracks for Peter Jackson and Steve McQueen, as well as touring with Pulp.
The album is a concept piece on urban life, based on Hyde's 'love of cityscapes'.
“The beauty of decay, tyre marks, crude graffiti, industrial noise, overheard conversations, epidemics of coffee bars and nights on the back seat being driven through cities by drivers who never sleep,” he says by way of description.
“A celebration of people’s idiosyncrasies, mapping out my journeys with the stories they tell, edgelands where city meets scrub, where ragged ponies grazed annexed fields and the air smells chemical.”
Here's the tracklist in full:
The Night Slips us Smiling Underneath it’s Dress
Your Perfume Was The Best Thing
Angel Café
Cut Clouds
The Boy with the Jigsaw Puzzle Fingers
Slummin’ It For The Weekend
Shoulda Been A Painter
Shadow Boy
Sleepless
