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Nick Murphy (not Chet Faker) releasing Americana album with a new band this week
By Al Newstead
Wednesday 8 December 2021 11:40am
Just when you thought it was Chet Faker and Chet Faker only...
Five months on from resurrecting his Chet Faker alias to release Hotel Surrender, Nick Murphy has announced a new album, Take In The Roses, featuring a new band called The Program. And it's out this Friday 10 December!
Nick Murphy & The Program comprises Murphy, Nick Kinsey (Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby), Jake Falby (Chet Faker, Julie Byrne), Tim Lappin, and Tim Mislock. Take In The Roses was produced alongside longtime collaborator Dave Harrington (Darkside).
"This record is important for a lot of reasons, but if I had to choose one, it's that it was fun to make," says the Melbourne-raised, Brooklyn-based artist.
It's also going to sound very different to what we're used to from Chet Faker and Murphy's previous work under his own name.
Written and recorded at Texan studio Sonic Ranch before the pandemic (and Murphy being diagnosed with long COVID), the project was recorded almost entirely live and is reportedly influenced by Americana, folk music, and traditional singer-songwriters. Get a taste in the album teaser below.
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The release of Take In The Roses will be accompanied by a video for lead single 'Old Dog', which - like the above video teaser - pieces together footage from a road trip Murphy took with his late father.
"I had these super8 rolls from a road trip with my dad. I can't really imagine anything else for the song. That wasn't the plan of course. It never is," says the musician.
Take In The Roses is out Friday 10 December. View the album art below, and hear Nick Murphy's interview with Richard Kingsmill on 2021 about his ordeal with long COVID, the death of his father, and resurrecting Chet Faker for the first time in five years.
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