PHILIP SELWAY Familial

*IN-STORES TUESDAY AUGUST 31, 2010

PHILIP SELWAY
Familial
www.philipselway.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada

For Philip Selway, it’s a sideline solo project, mind. The morning he talks about his record for the very first time, he still has to leave for a rehearsal down the road by an acclaimed Oxford-based band, named Radiohead, for whom Selway has drummed immaculately and imaginatively for the last 20 years. And with the admission, “It’s a cardinal sin for drummers to come in to rehearsals with the comment ‘I’ve got this song’!” he knows the time has come for his songs, put on ice when drumming took over in his late teens, to emerge into the light. “When you’re the same age as the Prime Minister, you think, I’d better get on with this,” Philip Selway grins as he acknowledges the new sea change in British politics but popularity is generally a passing phase while your first album-that’s forever. Knowing time waits for no one, he has delivered Familial, a collection of sublimely fragile, haunting, and heartfelt songs that will surprise many, and not only because drummers traditionally don’t do this kind of thing. Familial is so persuasively good, it sounds like Selway has always been a singer-songwriter.

TRACKLISTING:

By Some Miracle
Beyond Reason
A Simple Life
All Eyes on You
The Ties That Bind Us
Patron Saint
Falling
Broken Promises
Don’t Look Down
The Witching Hour