A. Dyjecinski gives up "The Fight"

Released today, the record is accompanied by a photobook of monochrome images of snow-covered mountains and woods. Stark, minimal and serene they set up the atmosphere of the record itself perfectly.

Floorboards creak, piano keys are delicately caressed as if playing half-remembered melodies, all accompanying Dyjecinski’s deep, occasionally bruised and bewildered sounding croon, which lies somewhere between Stuart Staples and the Southern Gothic Soul of Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner. While he describes the record as a whole as an exploration of loneliness, Dyjecenski is able to bring light to the proceedings, emerging from the dark just as his face begins to peer out of the darkness on the back cover of his photobook.

"The Fight" is a delicate duet that seems to find its creator relishing the relief and release of giving in, as he sings: “I gave up the fight / and it feels like it's going all right.” The video for the clip was directed in Big Sur, California by Jessica Lauretti on what Dyjecinski describes as “the only rainy day in Californian history.” Like the song, the video focuses on “the acceptance of loss and the metamorphosis into nothing.” The video features Patrick Berman and dancers Cassie Schafer and Daphne Driscoll.

Dyjecinski plays Flashback Records on 29/30 April before heading out on tour in May.

The Valley Yesiree is released today in the UK and on 13 May in USA/Canada. Album track "Dead Horses" features on the upcoming edition of Oh! Canada.

Watch "The Fight", and look over Dyjecinski's upcoming live dates after.

April

29 - Instore at Flashback records Islington

May

6 - Freds Ale House, Manchester
8 - The Castle, Manchester
10 - Oporto, Leeds
12 - Deaf Institute, Manchester
13 - Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, London
15 - About Songs Festival, Hamburg
16 - Auster Club, Berlin
17 - Stereo Wonderland, Cologne
20 - The Grand, Clitheroe
28 - Union Chapel, London

June

3 - FGO - Barbara, Paris (Supporting Marrissa Nadler)