LISTEN: Villagers announce new album & Dublin date + song premiere

Conor J. O'Brien has confirmed the January 8 release of Where Have You Been All My Life? which "distills five years and three albums of Villagers’ songwriting into one flowing narrative. Recorded in one day at London’s RAK Studio with Richard Woodcraft (Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets) and Villagers live engineer Ber Quinn, the album is a re-imagining of older material seamlessly woven with present glories from Villagers’ most recent studio album, Darling Arithmetic."
The 12 tasty cuts include a Villagers version of the song Conor wrote in 2011 for Charlotte Gainsbourg, 'Memoir', and a cover of Glen Campbell's wonderful 'Wichita Lineman'. Also on there are 'Set The Tigers Free', 'Everything I Am is Yours', 'My Lighthouse', 'Courage', 'That Day', 'The Soul Serene', 'Memoir', 'Hot Scary Summer', 'The Waves', 'Darling Arithmetic' and 'So Naive'.
The various formats include a Deluxe Green Coloured Vinyl 12" with two bonus tracks, 'Pieces' and 'No-One To Blame', on the accompanying download card.
There's a January 28 live show to look forward to too with tickets priced €28 on sale on Friday October 23.
Conor has also been invited to perform again as part of In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited, a tribute to the legendary filmmaker that first ran last year in the London Barbican. Busy boy or what?