DIMPLE DISCS
MICHAEL J. SHEEHY & THE HIRED MOURNERS - DON'T WE DESERVE SOME KIND OF LOVE MICHAEL J. SHEEHY & THE HIRED MOURNERS
Track List
1. Like Blood on Snow
2. Full Moon, Empty Belly
3. Don't Put Yourself Beyond The Reach Of Love
4. You Better Take Everything
5. Pure Deep Water
6. Only Drinking In My Dreams
7. If I Had Known It Was The Last Time
8. The Left Hand Don't Need To Know
9. Don't We Deserve Some Kind Of Love?
10. Tiny Blessings
Michael J. Sheehy has been making records for almost three decades, initially as founder and mouthpiece of mid-'90s cult band Dream City Film Club, then as a solo artist and frontman of rootsy garage rock act Miraculous Mule. He has toured with the likes of Kristin Hersh, Tindersticks, John Cale and Peter Murphy, while his songs have been utilised in films such as ‘Intimacy’ and the TV show ‘Deadwood’.
Following a six-year hiatus, Sheehy has just ‘Don't We Deserve Some Kind of Love?’, his seventh solo album but first for Dimple Discs.
In exploring themes of addiction, recovery, forgiveness, love, loss and the search for identity, it brings into sharp focus a shift in perspective that began with its 2020 predecessor, ‘Distance Is The Soul Of Beauty’. "I got sober in 2012 and after 20 years of heavy drinking there was a lot of damage and debris that needed to be addressed - explains Sheehy. - For two years I didn't write a single song. I was seeking out who I could be without drink and drugs. I'd spent two decades upending anything that resembled stability and writing about what a fucking shambles I was. I had always written for and about people for whom life is an ordeal and it almost always came from the bottom of a half-empty glass."
‘Don’t We Deserve Some Kind Of Love?' features contributions from Fiona Brice (violin), Sandy Mill (backing vocals), Ian Burns (drums) and Patrick McCarthy (guitar). It was recorded at home over a five-year period while Sheehy was a stay-at-home father and working evenings at a bar in Camden, north London.
2020 REVIEWS
"A quietly storming solo return...it's spookily brilliant 8/10" UNCUT
" might just be one of lockdown's most perfect creations: as intimate and stark a reflection of the period we're living in as Springsteen's Nebraska was of the early 80s" CLASSIC ROCK
" The alluring intimacy of his plaintive deep vocals over minimalist instrumentation shines throughout" VIVE LE ROCK
"We spend so much time and energy boggling at the obscurity in which great songwriters from previous eras had to go about their business, when there are artists right now in the same situation whose work we should be shouting about from the rooftops. Michael J. Sheehy is one of those artists" PETE PAPHIDES
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