➲ Release: Richard Walters - Golden Veins

Richard Walters - Golden Veins

Release date: Friday, June 12th 2020

Oxford-based singer-songwriter Richard Walters announces his fifth album entitled ‘Golden Veins’, which will be released June 12 via Cooking Vinyl. 

Whilst out on a writing trip to Nashville Walters received some sage advice from songwriter Trent Dabbs which helped him rekindle his inspiration and energy.  
When Walters asked what Dabbs’ secret was, the answer was something he already knew deep down, but which had been obscured by the demands and pressures that came with music being his sole source of income. Simply, make something you’d love to listen to. “I know this sounds like the most fucking obvious concept in the world,” laughs Walters, “but that idea of shutting out the potential audience or music supervisor or critic and just writing a record that makes your heart beat a little faster hit me hard.”

He returned to the UK and began digging through his collection to find the albums that had been formative for him - Cocteau Twins, Ride, Slowdive, Radiohead – and began formulating his own ideas, laid out simply with piano and vocals. He sent them to producer Patrick J Pearson, who’d send back “gorgeous, full productions.” The pair kept going back and forth, writing in their spare moments between work, father and family duties, and whatever else was happening in their personal lives.



The resulting ‘Golden Veins’ album is the sound of both an artist and a person reborn, re-inspired and re-invigorated, and a heartfelt reminder of just how beautiful and powerful and necessary a thing that can be. It arrives in a ten-year career which has seen Walters release four albums and four EPs, have his music features on such US TV shows at Grey’s Anatomy, Bones and CSI: Miami among others, and collaborate as a songwriter with the likes of Joe Henry, Simon Armitage and Alison Moyet.


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