Philip Kane Release New Single ‘Eight Stone, Tall and Handsome’

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Philip Kane has released a new single called ‘Eight Stone, Tall and Handsome’ featuring Boz Boorer and Fiona Brice. The new track is the first to come from Philips new album ‘Book of Broken Things’.

The new album – which will be Kane’s fouth – was produced by James Night across the space of three years, and will be out everywhere on 19th March 2021, via the Corrupt label.

Alongside the performances from Boz Boorer and Fiona Brice on this track, the album ‘Book of Broken Things’ will features notable appearances from Ed Harcourt, Steve Jansen (Japan), Liam McKahey, Sharleen Hector and Emma Pollock.

Check out the new track here:

A statement explaining the track read “A coruscating account of a debauched evening, a self-satire and a more externally focused satire of the view that designates fatal addictive illnesses as approved occupational hazards for the prancing minstrels who destroy themselves for our entertainment, “8 Stone, Tall and Handsome” locates the narrator in Hackney’s thriving night-time economy of the late 90s. Clearly Bukowski-esque, owing a substantial debt to ‘Tender Prey’ era Nick Cave, but also referencing Dr. John, Joris Karl Huysmans and Bill Hicks, the narrator lands up “in a room the texture of a yellow lung with a ten pound prostitute” and catching his “reflection in the broken glass” of “a pocket mirror lying on the mantelpiece” he declares himself to be “ridiculously handsome” as the woman present “spits in a cup”. The denouement reveals the awesome depths of the narrator’s self delusion.”