Skerryvore announce that their new album, Beautiful Mistakes, will be released on November 6, with the album previewed by the single, ‘Fly’.
‘Fly’ is a rollicking tribute to the band’s early days, which captures the giddiness of youth, and offers a reminder of their potency as a rock band. Vocalist and songwriter Alec Dalglish says, “It made sense for this to be the first song emerging from ‘Scarinish’ at the top of the album. I was trying to capture that feeling of brotherhood and raucousness from the band’s early days. A tribute to where it all started as such.”
Their most ambitious and personal work to date, Beautiful Mistakes is focused on the idea that perfection is overrated. In our age of social media, we’re sold the notion that this is something we should strive for. But it’s in our nature as humans to make mistakes – to be fallible – and there’s beauty in that. The band also embraced a newfound freedom in their creative approach. Working for the first time with producer Jamie Squire (The 1975’s unofficial fifth member), they latched on to the chemistry in the studio instead of focusing too much on the details, while also delving deep into introspective and vulnerable songwriting.
Listen to ‘Fly’ on Scotland Football Songs.
On the album, Alec says, “Making this album has been a much more organic process, where we often started acoustically, quite small, with the idea that the listener should feel like they’re in the room with us. Some of the songs still ended up sounding huge, but I think there’s a maturity there, and we really captured the live element of it all.”
Beautiful Mistake proves that it will resonate with the band’s ever-growing fanbase. Its themes are at times immensely personal, such as a poignant tribute to Alec’s late beloved father on ‘Singing Up In Heaven’, or ‘Scarinish’, an instrumental named after a village in Tiree, Scotland, on the island that founding members Daniel and Martin Gillespie call home. Others are more universal, the euphoric rush of new love expressed on ‘In Your Eyes’, or the realisation that a relationship is over on ‘Oh My Love’. There are surprises, too, such as the blunt state-of-the-world address of ‘The Game’, the pop-leaning ‘Second Chance’ and a stunning duet (the band’s first) with Tamzene on ‘While I’m Breathing’.
