Danny George Wilson has today released new album ‘Arcade’ via Loose Music. Wilson, who has been confirmed as special guest on The Handsome Family’s forthcoming UK tour, has unveiled his latest single ‘Before September’.

“‘Before September’ is a song about some of the fleeting random moments of pure joy that have stayed with me my whole life,” explains Wilson. “Smoking a fag out of my teenage bedroom window at my mum and dad’s house in the summer holidays whilst listening to ‘Astral Weeks’ and watching the sun catch the smoke hanging in the air, free wheeling down a hill on a beautiful spring morning on my red Royal Mail bike when I was a Postman whilst Nick Drake played on the headphones, finally catching a wave body surfing with my dad and brothers, a first feeling of real love on the long walk home from a teenage party. Musically it’s inspired by the wonderful Tony Bennett & Bill Evans album and Sinatra’s genius ‘Watertown’. The stunning string arrangement by Hamish Benjamin and incredible piano by Henry Garratt perfectly capture these feelings. One of the songs and recordings I’m most proud of in all my years of making music.”

LISTEN TO ‘BEFORE SEPTEMBER’ HERE

‘Arcade’ finds Danny George Wilson returning to Hamish Benjamin’s studio in East Sussex – five years on from his startling, post-lockdown solo album Another Place – to construct its sequel. With Lewes-based Benjamin and right-hand man Henry Garratt, again given free rein, ‘Arcade’ presents a fresh collection of sonically inventive, deeply romantic songs, with atmosphere taking primacy over meaning, and narrative dissolving. As Wilson tells it:

“The songs are about the ways we deal with losing people, time, place, or don’t deal with it… Looking back, we discover what was always there, or things that are just easier to ignore – different and contradictory perspectives. And I wanted a chance to work with Hamish and Henry again, and this seemed like their thing, and it was”.

Traditional instrumentation meets technology; the majority of tracks feature a string quartet, while Benjamin and Garratt employ synthesiser and mellotron along with a plethora of guitars. Gerry Love again provides backing vocals with cameos from Emma Tricca and Annie Dressner. Fragile, tender, full of uncertainty, ultimately ‘Arcade’ is a song-cycle in which the premise of each track subverts the previous, and demonstrates most assuredly, we still move in doubt.

BUY/LISTEN TO NEW ALBUM ‘ARCADE’ HERE

The Handsome Family Support Tour – May 2026:

Sun 17th – The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Mon 18th- Brudenell, Leeds
Tue 19th – St Luke’s, Glasgow
Sat 23rd – Union Chapel, London
Sun 24th – Union Chapel, London
Wed 27th – St George, Bristol
Thu 28th – The Wedgewood, Portsmouth
Sat 30th – Stoller Hall, Manchester
Sun 31st – Tung Auditorium, Liverpool