Invoice Fay, the British cult people singer-songwriter, died Feb. 22. He was 81. Useless Oceans, the label with whom he recorded his final three studio albums, confirmed his dying in a press release on social media Saturday.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we announce the passing of Invoice Fay, who died peacefully this morning in London, aged 81,” Useless Oceans wrote. “Invoice was a delicate man and a gentleman, clever past our occasions. He was a non-public particular person with the largest of hearts, who wrote immensely shifting, significant songs that can proceed to seek out individuals for years to come back.”
Born in London, the place he’d spend his total life, Fay launched his debut single “Some Good Recommendation” b/w “Screams In The Ears” in 1967. The UK label Deram Data launched his two first studio albums: 1970’s Invoice Fay and 1971’s Time Of The Final Persecution. Whereas these albums discovered an viewers, they didn’t carry out commercially, and Deram quickly dropped him. He would go many years with out recording music once more.
However after these first two albums have been reissued in 1998, Fay began to see a renewed curiosity in his work, now thought of ignored classics from the period. Producer Joshua Henry subsequently tracked Fay down and satisfied him to start making music once more. Fay returned in 2012 with Life Is Individuals, his debut for Useless Oceans. “Up till 1998, when some individuals reissued my albums, so far as I used to be involved, I used to be gone, deleted,” he instructed Spin on the time. “Nobody was listening. However then I received the shock that folks remembered my music. I used to be performing some gardening, and listening to a few of my songs on cassette, and part of me thought they have been fairly good. I believed, ‘Possibly someone will hear them sometime.’” He’d go on to file two extra albums for Useless Oceans: 2015’s Who Is The Sender? and 2020’s Numerous Branches.
Fay’s songs have been lined quite a few occasions. In 2022, together with a reissue of his first two albums, Useless Oceans helmed a collection of seven″ singles of different artists performing his songs, together with his repeat collaborator Jeff Tweedy, Steve Gunn, Kevin Morby, and Julia Jacklin.