Bernard Fanning releases first single since Powderfinger break-up Bernard Fanning's Departures, his new solo album Source: Supplied BERNARD Fanning today unveils his first single since the break-up of Powderfinger. Battleships is released to radio today and is the first single from Fanning's second solo album, Departures, to be released on June 7. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with musicians including drummer Joey Waronker, who has worked with Beck and REM. "When I was writing this album I made a conscious effort to step away from the way I had written songs in the past," he said. I especially didn't want to make another version of Tea and Sympathy (the first solo album he recorded before the band broke up). For me the most natural thing is to sit down with an acoustic guitar or at the piano and just get cracking. I figured that if I did that again with this record I would run the risk of getting stuck in dreamy singer-songwriter land and never make it out. I wanted to give myself the chance to reset what I was capable of both for myself and for other people. The track list for the new album reveals a song called Departures (Blue Toowong Skies), a reference to his childhood home. The full track list: Tell Me How It Ends, Limbo Stick, Battleships, Grow Around You, Drake, Call You Home, Departures (Blue Toowong Skies), Zero Sum Game, Here Comes The Sadist, Inside Track.