The Waterboys have introduced particulars of their sixteenth studio album, Life, Demise And Dennis Hopper, which is launched on April 4 by way of Solar Information.
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Working to 25 tracks, the album is a track cycle framing the late actor/director/photographer’s life story in opposition to the final 75 years of western popular culture. “The arc of his life was the story of our instances,” says Mike Scott. “He was on the large bang of youth tradition in Insurgent With out A Trigger with James Dean; and the beginnings of Pop Artwork with the younger Andy Warhol. He was a part of the counter-culture, hippie, civil rights and psychedelic scenes of the ’60s. Within the ’70s and ’80s he went on a wild 10-year rip, nearly died, got here again, bought straight and have become a five-movies-a-year character actor with out shedding the glint in his eye or the sense of hazard or unpredictability that all the time gathered round him.”
“It begins in his childhood, ends the morning after his loss of life, and I get to say a complete lot alongside the best way, not nearly Dennis, however about the entire unusual journey of being a human soul on planet earth,” says Scott.
Produced with Waterboys bandmates Well-known James and Brother Paul, the album options friends together with Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Steve Earle, Nashville-based artist Anana Kaye, English singer Barny Fletcher, Norwegian country-rockers Sugarfoot, Dawes‘ Taylor Goldsmith, Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s and Patti Palladin.