Kris Drever - Doing This for Love Kris Drever
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Kris Drever's new album arrives with the wisdom of someone who's spent years listening as much as playing. Doing This For Love marks the latest step of a journey from the traditional Scottish folk that first established him, dealing in inherited narratives for something more personal and immediate.
These ten songs are guitar-led meditations on the unglamorous heroism of everyday life--the 4am alarm clocks, the ungrateful shifts, the quiet sacrifices made in the name of keeping others whole.
The album captures Drever's gift for making the personal feel universal. His guitar work anchors each track with understated virtuosity, while a constellation of sympathetic collaborators--Rachel Sermanni, Euan Burton, Cahalen Morrison, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) and Matthew Herd (Seafarers) among them--orbit around his songs, adding texture without ever obscuring the core.
Doing This For Love doesn't romanticise struggle; instead, it honours it. These are songs about the unglamorous work of care, the quiet dignity in clocking in when you'd rather not, the small acts of devotion that rarely make headlines but sustain lives and relationships. Drever sings them as someone who understands that love, in its truest form, is often a verb--something you do rather than something you feel.
CD : Doing this for love / Change / Bring Back Hanging Around / Magic Friend / Pilot Whales / Save A Space / Does Your Sleep Feel Like Rest / Every Time / Still The Boy / Catterline
LP : Doing this for love / Change / Bring Back Hanging Around / Magic Friend / Save A Space / Pilot Whales / Does Your Sleep Feel Like Rest / Every Time / Still The Boy / Catterline
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