Christopher Paul Stelling has a new album to be released and a gig at the Guitar bar in Nottingham the album titled “Labor Against Waste” is coming in just 3 weeks on 16th June on Anti Records world wide. With a huge tour to follow this perpetual tour. This is just the start. 69 shows, 10 countries. Illustration by Salome Iljana.
Christopher Paul Stelling is not just an incredible guitarist—one who is capable of filling a room with only his dexterous finger-picking, voice, and stomp of his foot—but he’s also an excellent songwriter. Watch in the above video as Stelling performs the haunting lullaby “Dear Beast,” off his new album, Labor Against Waste,
Channelling folksters and bluesmen of the past while staying firmly planted in the present, Stelling draws from many styles to craft rich melodies on his old nylon string guitar, which he calls “Brownie.”
Stelling and a friend snuck into an abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn to shoot “Dear Beast” and the dilapidated, cavernous space fits the song’s theme of finding beauty in the ugly aspects of ourselves.
“‘Dear Beast’ is a song about a lost faith renewed through a reversal of perspective; through embracing that which is lost as a new kind faith,” writes Stelling in an email. “It’s about excepting our flaws completely, and moving on from there with them in our full embrace. It’s about taking responsibility and caring for the beast that lives in all of us and for the metaphysical beasts that we’ve created because of our inherent need to feel watched over and protected.
23/6 – Nottingham, UK – Guitar Bar
24/6 – Cardiff, UK – The Moon Club
25/6 – London, UK – The Garage
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