After a series of life changing events, Sheep, Dog & Wolf marks his long awaited return with ‘Two Minds’, the album.
SHEEP, DOG & WOLF
TWO MINDS ALBUM OUT TODAY
https://smarturl.it/Two-Minds-Album
“ a potent return from the New Zealand aesthete” – Clash Music
“The Auckland-based instrumentalist presents a raw exploration of the depths of mental illness in a haunting track.” – Wonderland
“This is misery alchemised into beauty. ?” – Bearded Magazine
“the album is just incredible” – Stuff.co.nz
“lush and perhaps deceptively feather-light, as McBride’s vividly poetic lyrics float along like a warm summer breeze” – Undertheradar
Aotearoa’s Sheep, Dog & Wolf’s album marks a long awaited and triumphant return from a special talent who has suffered his fair share of setbacks. This software engineer by day; composer and learner of new instruments by night, delivers another stand out original quasi-classical masterpiece of post-modern work into the world. International media attention is circling back to the young composer including Clash Music and Wonderland after the seven year hiatus since 2014 Aotearoa Music Awards’ Critic’s Choice Prize winning album, Egospect.
McBride’s debut full-length ‘Egospect’ dropped in 2013 to critical acclaim. It followed the multi-instrumentalist’s ‘Ablutophobia’ EP which had garnered praise from the likes of The Guardian(UK) and Vogue and propelled the then 17-year-old into the spotlight. Instead of capitalising on the reviews by rushing overseas to tour, he studied composition in Wellington where he realised the equal importance of having an emotional connection to songwriting over just an intellectual concept. When he did accept an offer to tour Europe, it inspired him to make an album to take on the road, and ‘Egospect’ was born. It saw him win the Critics’ Choice Prize at the New Zealand Music Awards and make the shortlist at 2014’s Taite Prize (won that year by Lorde). “I’m still really proud of that record,” McBride notes. “But I’ve moved on since.”
A new chapter has begun for McBride, who reflects on a cycle of his life that has thrown everything in his path from chronic sinusitis and anxiety, to family illness, assault and concussion. Then, as his UK label, Aphrodite, was about to release the first single from this record, the world went into lockdown. “I stopped believing I would even release this,” McBride sighs. “But so much has happened, and I wasn’t destroyed.” Finally, his patience has paid off, and with body and mind restored, everything is in its right place for the next chapter.
https://smarturl.it/Two-Minds-Album
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