Album artwork for Utopian Ashes by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie, alongside solo artist and Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth, presents this stunning debut solo project collection - exploring loss, miscommunication and emotional inarticulacy that a married couple experience as they realise that their relationship is breaking down. ‘Utopian Ashes’ draws on the tradition of country soul classics, such as Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris’s ‘Grievous Angel’ and George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s ‘We Go Together’, to deal with the heavy realities of love turning sour.

It’s an album for people who have dealt with the inevitable sadness that comes with age and acknowledged the realities of life. There is no sweetening of the pill, but it does achieve what should be the goal of all good art: to make us feel less alone. And while it’s not autobiographical, it channels heartfelt truth from the songwriters’ own experiences. In addition to Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, the album features Johnny Hostile (bass) alongside Primal Scream trio Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (piano) and Darrin Mooney (drums).

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth

Utopian Ashes

Third Man
Album artwork for Utopian Ashes by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
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$19.99

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Released 10/15/2021Catalog Number

194398593418

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Album artwork for Utopian Ashes by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
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$13.99

Released 07/02/2021Catalog Number

TMR737C

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Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth

Utopian Ashes

Third Man
Album artwork for Utopian Ashes by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
LP

$19.99

Black
Released 10/15/2021Catalog Number

194398593418

Learn more
Album artwork for Utopian Ashes by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth
CD

$13.99

Released 07/02/2021Catalog Number

TMR737C

Learn more

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie, alongside solo artist and Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth, presents this stunning debut solo project collection - exploring loss, miscommunication and emotional inarticulacy that a married couple experience as they realise that their relationship is breaking down. ‘Utopian Ashes’ draws on the tradition of country soul classics, such as Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris’s ‘Grievous Angel’ and George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s ‘We Go Together’, to deal with the heavy realities of love turning sour.

It’s an album for people who have dealt with the inevitable sadness that comes with age and acknowledged the realities of life. There is no sweetening of the pill, but it does achieve what should be the goal of all good art: to make us feel less alone. And while it’s not autobiographical, it channels heartfelt truth from the songwriters’ own experiences. In addition to Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, the album features Johnny Hostile (bass) alongside Primal Scream trio Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (piano) and Darrin Mooney (drums).