The Watchful Eye Of The Stars
Adrian Crowley
The Watchful Eye Of The Stars
Boomkat Product Review:
'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ is Adrian’s ninth studio album. Produced by luminary John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), this collection of ten songs invites us to join Adrian at his storytelling best, regaling us with tales of travel and wonder, by sea, by road, all quietly transfixing, transformative and wholly captivating.
"Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes ‘Watchful Eye’’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in ‘Bread And Wine’), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing.
“The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares. In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take,” says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of ‘Watchful Eye’ in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers."
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Boomkat Product Review:
'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ is Adrian’s ninth studio album. Produced by luminary John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), this collection of ten songs invites us to join Adrian at his storytelling best, regaling us with tales of travel and wonder, by sea, by road, all quietly transfixing, transformative and wholly captivating.
"Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes ‘Watchful Eye’’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in ‘Bread And Wine’), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing.
“The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares. In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take,” says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of ‘Watchful Eye’ in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers."
Boomkat Product Review:
'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ is Adrian’s ninth studio album. Produced by luminary John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), this collection of ten songs invites us to join Adrian at his storytelling best, regaling us with tales of travel and wonder, by sea, by road, all quietly transfixing, transformative and wholly captivating.
"Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes ‘Watchful Eye’’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in ‘Bread And Wine’), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing.
“The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares. In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take,” says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of ‘Watchful Eye’ in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers."
Boomkat Product Review:
'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ is Adrian’s ninth studio album. Produced by luminary John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), this collection of ten songs invites us to join Adrian at his storytelling best, regaling us with tales of travel and wonder, by sea, by road, all quietly transfixing, transformative and wholly captivating.
"Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes ‘Watchful Eye’’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in ‘Bread And Wine’), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing.
“The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares. In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take,” says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of ‘Watchful Eye’ in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers."
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Boomkat Product Review:
'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ is Adrian’s ninth studio album. Produced by luminary John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), this collection of ten songs invites us to join Adrian at his storytelling best, regaling us with tales of travel and wonder, by sea, by road, all quietly transfixing, transformative and wholly captivating.
"Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes ‘Watchful Eye’’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in ‘Bread And Wine’), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing.
“The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares. In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take,” says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of ‘Watchful Eye’ in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers."
Available To Order (Estimated Shipping between 1-3 Working Days)
This item is to the best of our knowledge available to us from the supplier and should ship to you within the time-frame indicated. If there are any unforeseen issues with availability we will notify you immediately
Boomkat Product Review:
'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ is Adrian’s ninth studio album. Produced by luminary John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), this collection of ten songs invites us to join Adrian at his storytelling best, regaling us with tales of travel and wonder, by sea, by road, all quietly transfixing, transformative and wholly captivating.
"Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes ‘Watchful Eye’’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in ‘Bread And Wine’), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing.
“The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares. In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take,” says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of ‘Watchful Eye’ in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers."
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