Rising Bristol-based electronic artist Henry Green has announced his debut album, Shift, which is set for release on March 30 via Akira Records. He's also sharing his new single "Another Light" online now. Speaking about the track, Green said "I had a really vivid image/moment in mind when I wrote "Another Light". I was sat on a silent beach in the early hours of the morning, slightly hazy from the lack of sleep and I wanted to write about the whirlwind of colours and textures, both in the landscape but also in my mind at that moment. So much change had happened in such a short amount of time and I was just reflecting on it all."

The main theme of the album for Henry Green is movement.  He explains "We're constantly moving in some manner, at some pace... whether it’s physically or emotionally. This year was all about progression and change for me, so I found myself constantly gravitating towards that idea of movement in my lyrics. 'Shift' was a word that just kept reappearing when writing the tracks, whether I was describing the structures of the tracks, the instrumentation/arrangement and obviously, the lyrics. I wanted to exhibit a feeling of constant movement in the album and that idea that every element is constantly shifting, but at a variety of paces."

The result is a sound both subtle and cinematic that combines intimate, confessional songwriting with an obsession with electronics that has built in him since age 16. Shift is laden with delicate, complex electronic sounds that show a maturity far beyond Green's age of 22.

“I vividly remember a friend showing me 'Swing Tree' and 'Osaka Loop Line' by the Vampire Weekend side project Discovery and it just blew my mind,” says Green. “Its sounds were so refreshing and exciting. The same friend showed me Jai Paul's ‘BTSTU’ and it had the same effect.” It’s a different artist he’s most associated with, though – Norwegian production megastar Kygo, who in 2013 remixed Green’s cover of MGMT hit ‘Electric Feel’ to the tune of 10m SoundCloud streams.

Henry Green will tour later this year with a headline London show already announced for Corsica Studios on May 3. More live dates will be announced soon.

'Shift' tracklist:

1. i

2. Aiir

3. Shift

4. Another Light

5. Stay Here

6. We

7. Without You

8. Contra

9. In Bloom

10. Something

‘VHS Forever’ is the latest single from the recently revived alias of Sam Duckworth. Ignited by an irresistible three-chord riff, this retro-futuristic bottle rocket of fizzing synthesisers and beatific brass is just one of many stratospheric highs to be found on the first Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly album in four years. A treasure trove of golden couplets and diamond one-liners, ‘VHS Forever’ sees Duckworth offering his unique perspective on the shear nuttiness of consumer trends in the here and now.

He says: "‘VHS Forever’ is probably the most absurd of the songs on the album. It’s a little bit of fun really. So much of the music that I’ve made previously has been quite heavy and quite political. I just wanted to write a song that highlighted the ridiculousness of feeling like all eras are being relived and rehashed at once, perpetual nostalgia. With one foot in pub rock (especially Dr Feelgood) and another in britpop, I wanted to write a three chord pub rock song that was fun and didn’t take itself too seriously.

For me it’s odd because now I’m 31 years old, and the fashion of the current age looks exactly the same as the fashion of the age when I was growing up. Being an artist that’s been around for a long time a lot of people say to me: ‘I used to remember you from my primary school’ and I just think, well I’m talking to adults who remember me from their childhood, when in some ways I still feel like I’m still a child myself. [In ‘VHS Forever’] I’m just trying to wrap it all up into a nice little bubble in a way that doesn’t feel too heavy.”

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