Din Of Ecstasy are proud to announce the release of ‘Codetta’, the new album from UK based singer/songwriter Jinder
‘Codetta’, Jinder’s thirteenth album, arrives three years after Jinder’s career-defining pair of albums from 2020, ‘The Silver Age’ and ‘Almanac for the Failing Days’
The artist: “It’s a delight to be returning with new music. Three years between releases seems like an unusually long time, but I’ve not stopped working for a moment. The ten tracks here on ‘Codetta’ were culled from a war chest of close to a hundred songs written since the summer of 2020, and whilst the temptation to put out new music earlier was certainly strong, I knew it was important to make the right record at the right time. That record is ‘Codetta’ and that time is now.”
Working once again with producer and long-time collaborator Pete Millson, ‘Codetta’ was recorded between Jinder’s own studio in Sherborne, Dorset and Pete’s Allington West studio in Bridport, with Jinder and Millson playing all instruments, other than drums, percussion and withering Gallic wit, provided by Bordeaux based multi instrumentalist Anton Henri at Studio Branlette de Licorne. Mastering was taken care of by the legendary Mark Freegard.
Jinder: “This record is very much an exercise in character study. Lyrically these songs are inhabited by loners, losers and the dysfunctional souls on the outskirts of middle age who are usually too far out on the fringes to get picked as a lead character. I guess I include myself in that category, but there is little in the way of first person narrative here. I’m more interested in representing those who don’t often have their stories told. The quiet ones, the people who disappear into the silences during conversation, the breath between the words. The general theme of the record is the analysis of self sabotage, and the many ways in which that manifests. There is a whole cast of stalkers, thrillseekers, narcissists, aging sex workers, social media trolls, blocked writers and cancelled celebrities here.
Of the first person songs, ‘A Gold Song’ came from a dream about playing pool with John Prine. ‘A Simple Song’ is a plea for a break from the relentless complexity of life, and ‘The Body Burned Away//Last Moon’ is about the strange duality of gratitude and guilt I felt after emerging from a lengthy period in hospital and finding out that the great Jason Molina had passed away. It felt unfair that he was gone and I had survived. I co-opted a title from one of his less well known songs, and wrote a song around those feelings that I thought Molina himself may have appreciated.
Who knows where ‘Codetta’ will land, but it’s an album made from the head, heart and soul in an almost perfect three-way split, and represents the very best I have to give at this moment in time. I’m glad to be able to deliver it into the world.”
Codetta features the singles ‘Between Vermillion & Mitchell’, ‘Isabel’, ‘A Simple Song’ and ‘Waiting for the Wind’.
Jinder - ‘Codetta’ is released on 2nd June 2023 by Din Of Ecstasy (cat no NP018).
