As a special treat this Xmas, the Family Grave is releasing a new album 'The Family Grave remix Songs About Love', a collection of instrumental remixes from the sessions for the album 'The Family Grave play Songs About Love' which came out this Autumn 2024.
The original album is a collection of ten songs about different kinds of love, with a lot of its power coming from the poetry and lyricism. However, Jon felt the contributions of the players needed highlighting and so he decided to create a mirror album, remixing their beautiful contributions on the original tracks, turning them inside out, dropping most of his vocals to create a new album with a very different vibe.
The intention was to make this album sound nothing like modern pop, and give it an intentionally different feel. The album's ten tracks start with 'No Return' a goodbye to a painful and bitter year of political and social tensions, and ends with 'The Immigrant' and its optimistic refrain of 'We Are All Different, And Yet We're All The Same' intended to provide a beacon of hope for a better world to come. In-between, we have the upbeat bounce of 'Leave Him Behind', a weird psychedelic-country '6 O'Clock in the Morning', the super-sweet romanticism on 'Loving Is Easy' and stunning jazz trumpet from Matt Devitt on 'Lessons of Love', channeling his inner Miles Davis to beautiful effect.
You can find the original Love Songs album here https://thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/the-family-grave-play-songs-about-love