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Bow To Love

Isobel Campbell

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Cat No: COOKLP909X

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Release Date:  14 June 2024

Label:  Cooking Vinyl Limited / Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  711297920901

Genres:  Rock  

Release Date:  14 June 2024

Label:  Cooking Vinyl Limited / Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  711297920918

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    Isobel Campbell is no stranger to navigating turmoil. On her previous album, There Is No
    Other (2020), she re-emerged after a decade of label trouble with a gem of subtly
    questing psychedelic folk. Four years on, Campbell spreads her net wider on Bow to
    Love, a soft-spun yet sharp-edged set of reflections on modern crises that doesn't stop at
    diagnosing the problems: it goes further to ask how we might progress from our tense,
    conflicted times.

    With all the dexterity the Glasgow-born singer-songwriter and cellist is known for, the
    result is an album of lambent surfaces and choppy riptides, a deeply personal record for
    today poised between hope and despair. "The album is about what we're all in right
    now, and my response to that and my life as a microcosm within that," says Campbell,
    before suggesting how exposing modern horrors might prove purgative. "I think there's
    a quote from A Course In Miracles which says, 'Love brings up everything unlike itself
    for the purpose of healing and release.' Maybe these horrible things are coming up and
    out so we can get rid of them and things can be better."


    Her radar keenly attuned to inequities, Campbell spotlights toxic masculinity on the
    luminous 'Everything Falls Apart,' it's circling lilt and warm, fretless bass framing a call
    to unmask patriarchal power in readiness for "a brand new start". "My elegy to the
    patriarchy" is how Campbell pitches it, noting how "even the words we use to insult a
    substandard man will often blame the woman - 'son of a bitch', 'bastard'." The
    spellbinding psych-folk of 'Spider to the Fly' and 'Second Guessing' add themes of
    "narcissistic abuse" and "repetition compulsion", lending bite to the album's take on
    relationships.

    Some songs were first conceptualised in 2016, when Brexit and Trump exacerbated
    what Campbell describes as "real tension" amongst people. Between its gently jazzy
    shuffle and cushioning arrangement, the Yoda-esque 'Do Or Die' foregrounds fortitude
    in the face of gnawing anxieties. The rainy-day soul-pop of 'Keep Calm Carry On'
    also started in 2016, when Campbell was staying at her aunt's flat in Yoker and her then-
    husband and collaborator Chris Szczech texted her from New York about the Brexit vote.
    "Chris was saying, 'It looks like it's going to happen' but I was like, 'No way.' And actually
    - 'way'. It did happen."

    Technology is touched on with first single '4316', an almost robo-folk-pop challenge to
    the idea of the "transhuman": the idea that technology might sire a new stage in human
    evolution. Favouring "honest, decent communication" over AI, Campbell takes a dim
    view of our "friend, unfriend, block, unblock" culture. "I know what I love and it ain't
    that," she says. "I was talking to an Uber driver the other day and I said, 'I don't want to
    be living in a video game.' And he said, 'Well, we are.' I feel like I'm offering a human
    element in these transhuman days of artificial intelligence."

    The looping sing-song swing of the title track appl

    Description

    Isobel Campbell first emerged as a founding member of Belle & Sebastian before releasing 3 albums with Mark Lanegan (ex
    Queens Of The Stone Age and The Screaming Trees). In February 2020, Isobel Campbell released her critically acclaimed solo
    album "There Is No Other..." which was featured on Rough Trade US & UK as Lead Album of the Month, Album of the week
    and playlists on the equivalent Radio 1s across Europe and charted at #16 on Top New Artists in the USA. "4316" is the first
    track to be taken from Isobel's forthcoming album 'Bow To Love', a soft-spun yet sharp-edged set of reflections on modern crises that doesn't stop at diagnosing the problems: it goes further to ask how we might progress from our tense, conflicted times. Available through Cooking Vinyl on May 24th 2024.

    Bow To Love artwork and tracklist:
    1. Everything Falls Apart
    2. Do Or Die
    3. Spider To The Fly
    4. Second Guessing
    5. Bow To Love
    6. 4316
    7. Dopamine
    8. Keep Calm Carry On
    9. Saturday's Son
    10. Take This Poison
    11. Om Shanti Om
    12. You
    13. Why Worry

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Everything Falls Apart
      • 2. Do Or Die
      • 3. Spider To The Fly
      • 4. Second Guessing
      • 5. Bow To Love
      • 6. 4316
      • 7. Dopamine
      • 8. Keep Calm, Carry On
      • 9. Saturday's Son
      • 10. Take This Poison
      • 11. Om Shanti Om
      • 12. You
      • 13. Why Worry

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Everything Falls Apart
      • 2. Do Or Die
      • 3. Spider To The Fly
      • 4. Second Guessing
      • 5. Bow To Love
      • 6. 4316
      • 7. Dopamine
      • 8. Keep Calm, Carry On
      • 9. Saturday's Son
      • 10. Take This Poison
      • 11. Om Shanti Om
      • 12. You
      • 13. Why Worry

      Disc 2

      • 1. Tout s’écroule et se meurt
      • 2. Maintenant ou jamais
      • 3. Araignée du soir
      • 4. Je me demande juste
      • 5. Place à l'Amour
      • 6. 4316
      • 7. Dopamine
      • 8. Reste calme, suis ta voie
      • 9. Le fils du laboureur
      • 10. Prends ce poison
      • 11. Om Shanti Om
      • 12. Toi
      • 13. T’en fais pas