Badbea
Edwyn Collins has announced details of the release of his 9th solo album, Badbea, which is released on Friday 29th March 2019. Having released his last album, Understated in March 2013, Badbea is his first release since moving both home and studio to Helmsdale on the North East coast of Scotland in 2014. Building a new studio from scratch, the impressive Clashnarrow Studios which sits on the hills overlooking Helmsdale, Collins completed work on Badbea with co-producer Sean Read (Dexys, The Rockingbirds) and long-term musical cohorts Carwyn Ellis (Colorama) & James Walbourne (The Pretenders / The Rails). The track listing of Badbea is as follows: 1. It’s All About You 2. In The Morning 3. I Guess We Were Young 4. It All Makes Sense To Me 5. Outside 6. Glasgow To London 7. Tensions Rising 8. Beauty 9. I Want You 10. I’m OK Jack 11. Sparks The Spark 12. Badbea
After taking a long break between records, a six-year gap that can be explained by uprooting his life in London to move to the Scottish Highlands and build a new studio, Edwyn Collins' third post-stroke album Badbea both sticks to the formula he's established and takes a few chances, too.
The past 15 years of Edwyn Collins’ life have been dramatic to say the least. Plunged down into the depths with his health, the Scottish
Edwyn Collins finds a brilliant lyrical minimalism on his latest album 'Badbea'.
Good humour and Ramones-like guitar riffs lift a ninth solo album that sees Collins ageing heedlessly
The Orange Juice frontman ebulliently and effectively mines the sounds of his past. Review by Thomas H Green.