Daniel Knox announces new mini-album
DANIEL KNOX ANNOUNCES NEW MINI-ALBUM ‘I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME’, OUT 13 DECEMBER
SHARES SELF-DIRECTED VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK ‘HOLLOW’
COINCIDES WITH REISSUE OF SELF-TITLED ALBUM ON BLUE VINYL
“Chasescene is Knox’s fourth album and the one that ought to expand his cult beyond Chicago”
5/5 Evening Standard ‘Album of the Week’
“A rare talent, and […] an album to be treasured”
9/10 Loud and Quiet ‘Album of the Week’
Watch the video for ‘Hollow’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-E_HlYnmLo
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One year on from his critically acclaimed grand, holistic album Chasescene – an album which confirmed his posItion as both a “rare talent” (Loud and Quiet) and as a “master storyteller” (The Observer) – Daniel Knox has today announced a new mini-album I Had A Wonderful Time. The mini-album will be released on 13 December via Knox’s own label H.P Johnson Presents alongside the reissue of his 2015 self-titled album – an incredible work of world-building and song-craft, under-appreciated at the time but now reissued on blue vinyl, limited to 500 copies. Along with the announcement Knox has shared the the first single from I Had A Wonderful Time, ‘Hollow’ along with it’s video which Knox made himself using footage partly shot in Estonia.
I Had A Wonderful Time skips back across his back catalogue to pick up where his 2015 self-titled release left off. Daniel Knox had a more pared down, isolated sound than Chasescene, though still full of unique sounds and textures that are drawn on for this new mini-album. Made largely alone – but with contributions from Justin Dennis and Joshua Fitzgerald Klocek, trusted collaborators who worked on the self-titled and who understand and enrich Knox’s unique vision – I Had A Wonderful Time is Knox at his most instinctive and revealing.
Speaking of ‘Hollow’ Knox says:
“‘Hollow’ is a mirror song. There is a reflection in it that is somewhat distorted from the original image, but it’s there. Sometimes when I am laying in bed, I will close my eyes and imagine falling in the opposite direction of gravity. When I look at my reflection in a puddle, I’ll also imagine that if I were to fall into it, my reflection might then fall upward in reverse.”
Knox had this to say of I Had A Wonderful Time:
“I Had A Wonderful Time was written away from the piano. I wrote most of these songs walking around Chicago at night. I’m no fan of crowds. For me, the city at night is the most inspiring. I take a lot of pictures, and I walk in the places you’re not supposed to walk. I’m no prowler, but I enjoy investigating places not meant for pedestrian traffic.
Since completing my self-titled LP several years ago, I’ve been trying to find a way to make my songs sound more like my pictures look, which is to say; empty places or a scene without characters. Contrary to belief, I actually like people a great deal, I just prefer them one at a time, or better yet, after they’ve gotten up and left. Chicago at night feels like a different city; like a city turned upside down with all it’s people shaken out. It becomes quiet like a movie set or a theatre stage just before the curtain rises.”
Daniel Knox’s existence is a mythic one, one shrouded by the darkened corners of the Chicago night – a place largely void of people with a quiet, unsettling beauty. A largely nocturnal creature, this is where Knox spends most of his time – whether in his corner of Ravenswood warehouse where his piano and tape recorder reside or exploring the streets enjoying the peace that comes with his unusual living schedule.
Although this world largely belongs to Knox, he does offer the rest of us day-walkers a snapshot. Knox is an avid photographer with a unique eye. He shoots the underbelly of the city – the abandoned buildings and nighttime creatures that others either ignore or actively avoid.I Had A Wonderful Time operates as something of an aural companion to his photography – four extended tracks that attempt to capture that otherworldly quality that his pictures possess and the stories that are lurking just out of frame.Cover-art by John Atwood, a longtime friend and collaborator – taken while on tour with Knox a few years ago.
Pre-order I Had A Wonderful Time and the limited 500 copy vinyl Daniel Knox reissue here:
https://danielknox.tmstor.es/
I Had A Wonderful Time tracklist:
1. Vanishing Site
2. Hollow
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Praise for Chasescene:
“Chasescene is Knox’s fourth album and the one that ought to expand his cult beyond Chicago”
5/5 Evening Standard ‘Album of the Week’
“A rare talent, and […] an album to be treasured”
9/10 Loud and Quiet ‘Album of the Week’
“A journey of sublime disaster and misfortune”
8.5/10 The Line of Best Fit
“Knox’s ambiguous narratives muddy the lines between fiction and fact on this wonderfully dark fourth album”
8/10 Uncut
“Knox is a truly compelling presence”
8/10 Clash
“Chasescene confirms Knox as a master storyteller, and is a record to settle into on dark nights”
4/5 The Observer
“Decadently sumptuous”
4/5 FT
“Knox has put together a package that’s hard to resist”
4/5 Q
“An album of uneasy-listening beauty, confident enough to take its time while rewarding you for investing yours”
4/5 Record Collector
“A quite phenomenal album”
5/5 Narc