The former frontman of Wild Beasts unveils his third solo album. Englishman Hayden Thorpe continues his musical evolution with Ness, an album whose songs are drawn from the pages of the eponymous book by the famous author, Robert Macfarlane. The album is inspired by Orford Ness in Suffolk, a former weapons development site during the two world wars and the Cold War. Acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to undergo natural rehabilitation, this place remains to this day a space of paradox, mystery, and constant evolution. Ness is an ode to Orford Ness, both the physical place and the book it inspired, highlighting the words of Robert Macfarlane and the artworks of Stanley Donwood.
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