Gavin Friday returns with first new solo album in 13 years
September 4, 2024
ECCE HOMO OUT 25TH OCTOBER VIA BMG
Today, Gavin Friday returns with details of his highly anticipated new solo album Ecce Homo. Out 25th October via BMG, the new album – which was produced by Soft Cell’s Dave Ball and Michael Heffernan – marks his first since 2011’s “Catholic” and is announced alongside it’s title track and an eponymous digital EP featuring two remixes and an instrumental version of the track.
Driven alternately by thundering electronics that recall the power of the Prunes and exquisite acoustics that reflect the beauty of his most recent solo work and soundtracks, Ecce Homo is an ecstatic and unbound expression of anger and independence, of severing oneself from stereotypes of what you’re supposed to be while also acknowledging that our hardest battles are often our collective ones. There are love songs and fight songs, reflections on loss and reveries of nostalgia, anthems for solidarity and excoriations of the powerful. Friday thinks it’s the most honest album he’s ever made; it is also his most riveting.
Ecce Homo will be released on 25th October via BMG on ltd. edition transparent blue vinyl as well as a deluxe CD package featuring an exclusive 28-page booklet and bonus material. The album will be available everywhere digitally including two exclusive remixes.
Check out the brand-new video for title track ‘Ecce Homo’. Equally haunting and euphoric, the video has been produced entirely in AI by studio284 / Petros Tryfon.
Ecce Homo Tracklisting:
1. Lovesubzero
2. Ecce Homo
3. The Church Of Love
4. Stations Of The Cross
5. Lady Esquire
6. When The World Was Young
7. The Best Boys In Dublin
8. Lamento
Bonus (Deluxe CD only):
9. When the World Was Young (Reprise)
10. Cabarotica
11. Amaranthus (Love Lies Bleeding)
12. Daze
13. Behold the Man
Digital Only:
14. Ecce Homo (Apparition Remix)
15. Ecce Homo (Smallboy Remix)