Bernard Butler has unveiled details of Good Grief - his first solo album in 25 years, along with the lead single 'Camber Sands.' To celebrate his long-awaited return, Butler has also announced a slew of UK tour dates for this summer, which you can check out here.

The upcoming release sees the artist and producer return to solo work, following a stint of pop songwriting and producing - collaborating on two albums with folk artist Sam Lee and a Mercury-nominated project with actress Jessie Buckley.

His return was an ambitious undertaking, clocking countless hours in the recording studio with just him, a guitar and a microphone.

“For a good while I was scarred and I was scared. I was happily distracted and joyously involved with so much music," Butler says of the album's inspiration. "I realised just being there was more than I had ever hoped for. I gave a lot to other people, but realised that my story was defined but what I was, rather than what I am.

“I set myself a modest commercial goal, an expectant creative one: perform to 10 people without being bottled, then find 11 the next night. Thus began the undoing of my own embarrassment. I would write as I thought and sing as I wrote until the bottles fly. And so, the songs arrived.”

Over nine songs, the tracklist kicks off with the emotive lead single 'Camber Sands,' which was released today.

“For years and years I have drawn straight lines from North London to every coastline I could see," Butler remarks on 'Camber Sands.' "To life-worn Londoners escape is the dream and return most likely."

“The story I found was not the sea but the journey. Camber Sands, Mersea Island, Dunwich, or a dozen more horizons of possibility, the sea and the seawalls, and the endless return to face the city. Camber Sands is a love song – we flee the past, the present, ourselves, to survive, to defy. The loneliest music of the resolute, the half-light and the saddest tunes.”

Good Grief is set to drop on 31 May 2024 via 355 Recordings, and is available to pre-order and pre-save now.