Some Rain Must Fall is coming out on November 1st, nine years since the Dublin singer-songwriter’s debut Patterns.
Two songs ‘Pictures Of You’ and ‘The Artist’ have been released this week, and have accompanying videos by Colm Russell, below. The album was made after a long period of self-reflection and Anderson stopped making music for a time too.
“This album was a long time in the making, perhaps these songs offer clues as to why,” Says Daniel Anderson.
“I’m an electrician by trade,” he says. “That’s what I’m professionally qualified to do and what I worked as before I dedicated my life to music. Being a musician has taken up the majority of my adult life but I’d always had a feeling of imposter syndrome with it. In the back of my head I’d be thinking ‘I’m an electrician – I’m not supposed to be making art.
Leaving my trade behind, my ambition was always to make writing music a viable career path. When that didn’t materialise the only other career I could potentially fall back on was being an electrician. But for different reasons it just didn’t work. I changed so completely that going back into that world was impossible. I felt like an imposter all over again. But the dilemma triggered something in me and new songs and ideas started coming. I stopped obsessing on the career that music hadn’t given me and instead focused on how it had enriched my life. It wasn’t easy but everything I went through was captured in the songs and it’s all there on the record: work, worth, fear, pain, ageing, art, love, life and an understanding that into every life some rain must fall.”
‘Pictures Of You’ and ‘The Artist’
Both songs were released jointly as Anderson felt after such time away, the dual reintroduction was a necessary to showcase what’s to come on the album.
“The album has many facets so it was difficult to choose one single to announce it with. The title track is quite epic and might make sense to release closer to the album, there is another song that people who’ve heard think could work well for radio but there isn’t one single track that defines the record. Together, Pictures of You and The Artist perhaps give people who haven’t heard from me in several years an idea of why that may be, and both songs cover some of the record’s recurring themes.”
About the videos:
“The album’s long gestation period allowed us time to try out lots of ideas individually, and try to find common ground collaboratively,” Colm Russell says.
“But when we came across Marc O’Sullivan’s photographs of interior of the derelict Iveagh Markets we both agreed that it resonated the album’s title and themes so well. That fact that Daniel’s grandmother traded there for decades and that he had a deep personal connection to the space made it even more fitting and a continuation from the cover of the first album. So much visual culture is ephemeral these days. We wanted to try and create something that looked like it had been around forever, and still lives on regardless of the passing of time. The image suggests so many interpretations that fit with the context of the record, and separately, just works really works as an album cover.”
Some Rain Must Fall Tracklist
1. Pictures of You
2. The Artist
3. Some Rain Must Fall
4. When I Belong To You
5. Students Of Art
6. Freak
7. Makes Me Feel For You
8. I’ll Get Back To You (When I’ve Got Nothing Better to Do)
9. T.S. I Love You
10. The Passing Of Time
Preorder
The album is on November 1st is available to pre-order from andersonsongs.com
Watch Anderson try and sell his debut album via door to door sales to Dubliners
