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Juno Daily
on 03.07.2025 at 07:00am.
Last edited: 02.07.2025 at 17:40pm.
“Very fresh sounding,” reckons Sherwood
Adrian Sherwood, UK dub legend and On-U Sound label founder, is to deliver his first solo album in 13 years next month.
The Collapse Of Everything, only the fourth solo album in a long and esteemed career that’s seen him collaborate with or produce with everyone from Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry to Primal Scream, will be released on August 25.
He’s shared the album’s title track via a visualiser promo:
Explaining the title and genesis of the new work, Adrian comments: “Recently I lost two great friends, Mark Stewart & Keith LeBlanc, and started working with the idea of doing another solo record, because it’s been a long time since Survival & Resistance. Mark had written a song, and part of a lyric was hidden in the song about ‘The Collapse Of Everything’. It seemed a very appropriate title, both summing up my feelings about losing Mark and Keith, and on another level, what’s going on in the world now both politically and environmentally.
Talking about collaborators on the album, he says: “The key for this album has been my dear friend Doug Wimbish, and certain other key players. I’ve got my crew that contributed to the last Horace Andy album, and things like Reset In Dub by Sonic Boom & Panda Bear, which isn’t just a dub re-work but an album where we re-built whole rhythm tracks and added tons of overdubs. On The Collapse Of Everything there’s Mark Bandola on guitar, Ivan “Celloman” Hussey, and Alex White who plays with Primal Scream and Fat White Family, who is brilliant with woodwinds and keyboard. They’ve been the bedrock, and on top of that I’ve had Chris Joyce play drums, he’s been my friend for many years, he played with The Mothmen, the second ever album release on On-U Sound, and then went on to tour the world as part of Simply Red! And of course it started out with my much-missed friend Keith LeBlanc, who was in The Sugarhill Gang and Tackhead with Doug, so it’s quite a serious group, all held together by Matt Smyth, my engineer.”
He adds that to his ears the album is “very fresh sounding, and I’m very happy with it”.
