Artists
Album Info
Release Date: 2022-01-10Label: Shadrack & Duxbury Records
ARTISTS ONLY is the fourteenth studio release from UK Singer Songwriter Vinny Peculiar .Most of the songs on ARTISTS ONLY take their inspiration from the ART WORLD, from Pollock to Perry, Hockney to Rothko, Warhol to Bacon. There’s also the neo classism of Pathetic Lament, teenage tales of Heavy Metal heartbreak, the quest for the Perfect Song and lockdown ballad A Man and his Shadow.
ARTISTS ONLY is an eclectic collection, such elements of hard rock, blue eyed funk and pastoral chamber pop may well resonate with fans of PULP, DENIM, BOWIE, RAY DAVIES, LUKE HAINES and MARTIN NEWELL.
The first single is ‘A Bigger Splash’, release date 25.10.21
- a driving surf style hard twanging affair inspired by a couples shared love of that most iconic image with the tell-tale refrain… ‘David Hockney in 67 says he died he died and went to heaven, all his paintings live on forever, but this was the one keeping us together’
ARTISTS ONLY adds further weight to the critically acclaimed recording career of the man formerly described as a ‘warm hearted morrisey’ [Q MAGAZINE] an ‘unsung national treasure’ [UNCUT MAGAZINE], and ‘the missing link between Jarvis... more
credits
released January 10, 2022
1,6, produced by David Marsden
2,11 produced by Dave Draper
3,5, produced by Matthew Devenish
4,7,8,9,10, produced by Matt Culpepper
Mastered by David Marsden
Joe Singh drums 1,4,7,8,9,10
Leah Walch backing vocals
Alan Wilkes main & backing vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, bass guitar, synths, pianos,
All Songs written by Alan Wilkes aka Vinny Peculiar cc 2021
Artwork/Design Paul Cliff with images from the paintings of Dave Hulston