From the album Hey Mr Ferryman, out January 27, 2017 on Merge Records.

Album · 2017 · 13 Songs.

Features Song Lyrics for Mark Eitzel's Hey Mr Ferryman album.

Genre: Singer-Songwriter. While his American Music Club era(s) saw Eitzel canonised as the heart-wrenching, torture singer of love and fury, Hey Mr. Ferryman continues in the vein of 2012’s Don’t Be A Stranger, in lessening the self-laceration in favour of a far more reasoned and, dare I say, pop-friendly approach.

So much of Mark Eitzel ’s music exists in spite of itself. Sung in a husky register between a whisper and a croon, his songs are filled with characters willing themselves to disappear, transmitting from a translucent state between existence and nothingness. At the beginning of his last album, 2012’s Don’t Be a Stranger, a woman approached Eitzel to say, I love you, but you’re dead, a six-word phrase that sums up the tension in Eitzel’s body of work, both in his seminal band American Music Club and throughout his fruitful solo career

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Hey Mr Ferryman is Eitzel’s first full studio album recorded entirely in London. It was made at 355 Studios with Mercury Prize winner Bernard Butler (ex-Suede, McAlmont & Butler), who has produced and/or recorded albums with Tricky, Ben Watt, Bert Jansch, Edwyn Collins, and more. Butler produced Hey Mr Ferryman and played all of the electric guitar, bass, and keyboard parts on the album

Sleep from My Eyes, 03:59. The Singer (For Jason Molina), 03:13.

Hey Mr Ferryman was written during a complicated time for Eitzel: as he notes in our Q&A, he was shuttling between cities for much of the past few years; the songs themselves were initially recorded with Eitzel’s two bands (one in California, one in the UK), but they needed some care and attention and so nothing really gelled, he. recalls. After connecting with producer Bernard Butler, they initially considered a simple acoustic album – mostly because it was all we could afford