The Moon Also Rises gathers songs that Johnny and Robert have written together since finishing their first joint album, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021). At its heart are the oldest themes of all: death and renewal, darkness and light. The first five tracks are songs of burial, shadows and memory, while the final four are songs of awakening, light and love. The album turns around a central song, ‘The Sun Also Rises’, which stands with a foot in both dark and light.
- Johnny Flynn’s sixth album, and the second co-written with his friend Robert Macfarlane. Out 10th November 2023 on Transgressive
- Gathers songs that Johnny and Robert have written together since finishing their first joint album, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021). At its heart are the oldest themes of all: death and renewal, darkness and light. The first five tracks are songs of burial, shadows and memory, while the final four are songs of awakening, light and love. The album turns around a central song, ‘The Sun Also Rises’, which stands with a foot in both dark and light.
- Fuses poetry, story, landscape, history, nature and myth into a series of rich, strange songlines that criss-cross time and place, joining winter to spring, ancient to present and birth to death. As the Sun sets, so the Moon rises as its echo; as one light dies, another, altogether different light is born.
- Partly recorded in an old Methodist chapel -now the home of Johnny and Rob’s friends, Cosmo and Flora Sheldrake.
- Produced by Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Marika Hackman)
Tracklist:
1. Uncanny Valley – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
2. Song with no Name – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
3. Burial Blessing – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
4. No Matter the Weight – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
5. Coins for the Eyes – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
6. The Sun also Rises – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
7. The Wild Hunt – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
8. Through the Misty with You – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
9. Year-Long Winter – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
10. River, Mountain and Love – Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane