Labi Siffre Announces First Album in 28 Years, Shares New Song
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Labi Siffre, the 80-year-old British folk musician, is back after spending decades out of the spotlight. He just announced his first new album in 28 years; the appropriately titled Unfinished Business is out later this year on Demon Music Group. He’s also shared the new song “Far Away,” a piano ballad that leans into Siffre’s soul influences, with a music video. Check it out below.
Siffre took a sporadic approach to releasing music over the years, dropping six albums in a five-year span during the ’70s, including his standout LP Crying Laughing Loving Lyingbefore retiring. However, he returned for brief stints in the ’80s and ’90s. His last records, the full-length album The Last Songs and the spoken-word poetry collection Monumentboth came out in 1998.
Still, Siffre hasn’t been totally silent this decade: he released the...
