Diagrams announces new single "It's Only Light", launches crowdfunding campaign for new LP

The track is the first taste of Dorothy, a new collaborative record with Trogdon fusing music and poetry. Diagrams - aka Sam Genders (Tunng, Throws) - enlisted the likes of Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Speech Debelle, Low Roar), Kristofer Harris (Smoke Fairies, Clock Opera) and Kelly Pratt (St Vincent, David Byrne, Arcade Fire, Beirut) to help arrange and produce the LP.

Genders says of the album: “I’ve never been involved in a project quite like this. Working with Dorothy has been a real inspiration and a hugely enjoyable experience. We live in a culture that focuses a lot on youth and it was refreshing to engage with someone of an older generation.”

Trogdon adds: "The poems were out in the world seeking a reader, met Sam Genders who replied with music and a conversation began. Which is how all creation starts. We make nothing new alone. When wind blows through the trees, the leaves rustle. I saw how the wings of Sam’s music would carry my words far beyond my little island and I was glad. Now words and music are friends and shall go forward together."

The album's production was part-funded by the PRS Foundation - Genders is launching a crowdfunding campaign to held release the record next spring.

"Why crowdfunding?" Genders muses. "It's an experiment really. By self-releasing and not being signed to a record label, there's a chance I will end up owning the rights to my own music and being in a much stronger position to make a living and keep making music. I find the latent possibility exciting. All those people who might choose to connect with us and make this album release happen. It's people power at its best!"