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Alternative 15/03/2018

Royston Langdon To Release Solo LP ("Everything's Dandy") Under Leeds Moniker On May 4, 2018

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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Royston Langdon, former lead singer of Spacehog is releasing a solo LP 'Everthing's Dandy,' under the moniker LEEDS (a nod to his UK hometown) on May 4. Stream "Someone" and a second track, "What Became of the People" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ymMgXb8YIlBWiyjXUlTEm.
'Everything's Dandy' is the culmination of his 24 years in New York, both in its content and its production. "I've lived here longer than I've lived anywhere on the planet," says Langdon of NYC. "I feel like I'm part of the city in a way."
"This work is a reflection of the re-gentrification of places and the real and meaningful memories they leave in their wake. How our own growth, over time, leaves us with a shifted perspective on ourselves. The once familiar now gone, never to come back except through the ghosts of lovers, places, objects."

Recorded in the fall of 2017, Langdon enlisted Bryce Goggin (Antony and the Johnsons, The Apples in Stereo) to produce and engineer 'Everything's Dandy.' The two have known each other since Langdon's early days in New York, when he interned at the recording studio where Goggin was head engineer. While Langdon played many of the instruments himself on the album, he enlisted a few longtime friends to play on select cuts, including drummer Parker Kindred (Jeff Buckley) and multi-instrumentalist Timo Ellis (Yoko Ono, Joan as Police Woman). The song "Your Day Will Come" was co-written by Langdon and Rich Robinson of Black Crowes. "What Became of the People" is a songwriting collaboration between Langdon and his brother Antony, who also shot two videos for the album.

Originally from Leeds, Langdon got his start playing music in the U.K. In 1994, however, he followed his brother Antony to New York and fell for the city immediately. Not long after the move, Spacehog formed. In the fall of 1995, they released the debut album 'Resident Alien,' which spawned the hit single "In the Meantime." Three more albums followed over the next 18 years.

More recently, Langdon has worked on the industry side of music, using his own experiences to help up-and-coming artists. Yet, he remained a musician at heart. Langdon kept his new work fairly private, telling only a few people as he built a new collection of songs

The evolution of 'Everything's Dandy' began two years ago, after Langdon's son moved to London. The changes in Langdon's own life, as well as the changes in the city that has been his home for so long, sparked new ideas.

"They put up these new shops," says Langdon of the urban landscape of New York. "Still, the memory of the kind of experience of that thing remains." He sees a connection between waves of gentrification diminishing the city's creative spirit and his "experience of loss and also growth." In his songs, Langdon writes of this not necessarily with nostalgia in mind, but with a sense of "awe" at how life moves forward.
Everything's Dandy is set for release on May 4 on vinyl and digital formats.

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