#Hayden Thorpe Announces New Album, Shares New Song: Listen

Hayden Thorpe, formerly of Wild Beasts, has announced his next solo album, Moondust for My Diamond. The 12-track LP arrives October 15 via Domino. Today, Thorpe has shared lead single “The Universe Is Always Right,” along with a music video directed by Tom Haines. The clip was shot in Hayden’s homeland, Cumbria’s Lake District in England, which includes the country’s largest national park and a World Heritage Site of timeless landscapes. Check it out below and scroll down for album details.

Moondust for My Diamond follows Thorpe’s debut solo album, 2019’s Diviner. Thorpe worked with producer Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion), Richard Formby, and Heba Kadry on the album. In a press release, Thorpe talked about his influences on the new LP, such as, “the meeting point between science and religion, the grand struggle for reality that shapes so much of our time.” He said:

What about nature? What about the cosmos? What about all these things that break through the tyranny of the self?  Our sense organs bring the world inside of us after all, I just had to sing it back out. I was enchanted again with the mystery of science and how I might speak from the heart in an age where metric is gospel.

Moondust for My Diamond:

01 Material World
02 The Universe Is Always Right
03 No Such Thing
04 Parallel Kingdom
05 Golden Ratio
06 Metafeeling
07 Supersensual
08 Hotel November Tango
09 Rational Heartache
10 Spherical Time II
11 Suspended Animation
12 Runaway World