Hayden Thorpe announces "Moondust For My Diamond"
Domino are proud to present Moondust For My Diamond, the exquisite brand new album from Hayden Thorpe, due for release on 15th October 2021. The new album follows Hayden's debut Diviner from 2019 and the Aerial Songs EP from last year.
Along with the album news, Hayden has shared lead single, “The Universe Is Always Right”. Watch the video shot in Hayden’s homeland of The Lake District, directed by Tom Haines.
In contrast to Diviner, a critically acclaimed album steeped in solitude and fragility, Moondust For My Diamond moves into a more natural visual and sonic palette. He’s interested in, he says, “the meeting point between science and religion, the grand struggle for reality that shapes so much of our time.” Thorpe has made an album that is galvanizing, reassuring, elegant, seductive: it oozes Big Cosmic Energy.
“What about nature? What about the cosmos? What about all these things that break through the tyranny of the self? Our sense organs bring the world inside of us after all, I just had to sing it back out. I was enchanted again with the mystery of science and how I might speak from the heart in an age where metric is gospel.” Moondust... comes as the by-product of a coping mechanism: exploring the worlds of digital mysticism, and the need to melt down reality and recast it when so much feels so unreal.
The pastoral evolution of last year’s Aerial Songs EP hinted at an expanding palette that reflected Thorpe’s return to The Lake District, the natural environment he grew up surrounded by. These additional influences seep into Moondust..., along with Hayden’s involvement with Wavepaths, a pioneering project integrating music into psychedelic therapy, plus ‘hybrid’ gigs and breath workshops with pioneering breath practitioner Richie Bostock. It’s those surrenders, experiments and collaborations that make this such an enticing, sensory, soul-expanding album.
The technicolour production on Moondust For My Diamond brings Hayden together for the first time with cult innovator Nathan Jenkins (Bullion) as well as long-time collaborator Richard Formby, with mastering by Heba Kadry.
1. Material World
2. The Universe Is Always Right
3. No Such Thing
4. Parallel Kingdom
5. Golden Ratio
6. Metafeeling
7. Supersensual
8. Hotel November Tango
9. Rational Heartache
10. Spherical Time II
11. Suspended Animation
12. Runaway World
Hayden Thorpe Live Dates
- 9 OCT - Kendal, UK @ Brewery Arts Centre, Hayden Thorpe x Aerial
- 15 OCT – London, UK @ Chat’s Palace
- 6 NOV - Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange w/ Jon Hopkins
- 7 NOV - Brussels. BE @ Cirque Royal w/ Jon Hopkins
- 8 NOV - Paris, FR @ Salle Pleyel w/ Jon Hopkins
- 14 NOV - Helsinki, FI @ Helsinki Music Centre w/ Jon Hopkins
- 15 NOV - Berlin, DE @ Tempodrom w/ Jon Hopkins
- 16 NOV - Den Haag, NL @ Amare w/ Jon Hopkins
- 18 NOV - Barcelona, ES @ L'Auditori w/ Jon Hopkins
- 20 NOV - Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene w/ Jon Hopkins
- 21 NOV - Copenhagen, DK @ DR Koncerhuset w/ Jon Hopkins
- 23 NOV – London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall w/Jon Hopkins
- 25 NOV - Stockholm, SE @ Gota Lejon w/ Jon Hopkins
- 26 NOV - Hamburg, DE @ Laeiszhalle w/ Jon Hopkins
