Guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of Spandau Ballet, Gary Kemp announces third solo album, This Destination.
Kemp’s new body of work follows on from 2021’s INSOLO and is his most personal to date. This Destination sees the songwriter channel his own thoughts and feelings about the past, present and future through the guise of uncanny storytelling and character work. The album is simultaneously semi-autobiographical and an exercise in empathetic scene-setting.
This Destination puts on show the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to songcraft. The album features intricate and deliberate arrangements including strings by the renowned John Metcalfe (formerly of The Durutti Column and more recently string arranger to the likes of Peter Gabriel, Blur and U2).
Lyrically, the 11-track offering marks a journey in discovery for Kemp who, in the years following the pandemic, hit an unexpected wall of anxiety and a lapse in self-belief. This Destinationis the soundtrack to the artist navigating his way …