Length 38:57 Artist Withered Hand Producer Kramer Genre Indie rock | Good News
(2011) New Gods
(2014) Release date 14 September 2009 Label SL Records | |
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Released September 14, 2009 (in the UK on B&D), March 5, 2011 (on Absolutely Kosher) | ||
Good News is the first full-length album by Scottish visual artist Dan Willson, d/b/a Withered Hand. Originally released on September 14, 2009 in the UK on SL Records, it was re-released on Absolutely Kosher Records in 2011 in the US. The album's title is a reference to Willson's upbringing as an Evangelical Christian.
Contents
Maggoty Lamb has written that "If you want to hear an album that genuinely does justice to the manna-from-heaven style succour that Domino Records' pre-Franz Ferdinand roster of US acoustic misfits gave to those wandering in the post-Britpop wilderness, Good News by Withered Hand...is the one to go for. Not so much for its explicit acknowledgement of aesthetic debt (lines about writing "the Silver Jews" on people's shoulder bags will only take you so far) as for the authentically homegrown twist the songwriting manages to put on its transatlantic influences."
The album was funded by the Scottish Arts Council.
Track Listing
- Providence
- Cornflake
- Love in the Time of Ecstasy
- Joy
- New Dawn
- Religious Songs
- No Cigarettes
- I Am Nothing
- Hard On
- For the Maudlin
Songs
1Providence4:02
2Cornflake3:03
3Love in the Time of Ecstacy5:01