On Chapel Slope - Out Now

Taken from the forthcoming album Requiem For A Village

Today (2nd October 2026) I’m releasing a new track from my ninth album, Requiem For A Village, which comes out on Fiction on 6th November 2026. The music video, directed by Mike Bennion, is live now on my YouTube channel.

Requiem For A Village takes a very different path from The Overview. I imagined a Wicker Man landscape: Stanley Spencer’s paintings hang in the local art gallery, the stories of M. R. James and Algernon Blackwood line the shelves of the public library, and the children of the stones play in the market square. Requiem For A Village is a sepia-toned snapshot of a hidden neverland, and 54 minutes of cinema for the ears.

Track listing

1. Swirl In A Lark’s Eye

2. Requiem For A Village

3. The Same River Twice

4. Now Departing

5. Hiraeth

6. On Chapel Slope

7. Murmuration

8. Cursus Fingerprint

9. A Basket Of Bees

10. Great Green Map

11. Wheel

12. The Old God Is Buried

The album will be available on CD, Blu-ray, 140g black double vinyl and oxblood double vinyl. There’s also a boxset with 2 CDs and a Blu-ray, packaged in a 96-page hardback book box. A limited number of signed CDs will be available through Amazon, and CDs with exclusive packaging through HMV. Click here for full format details.

A reminder that I am playing two sold-out shows at the Royal Albert Hall on 28th and 29th October, with my band, the Parallax Orchestra and the Sansara choir, conducted by Tom Richards. For me the shows close one album cycle and introduce the next. We’ll play newly created orchestral arrangements of The Overview, along with tracks from Requiem For A Village.