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How To Love (Album​,​2023)

by Withered Hand

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1.
Feelings 03:55
FEELINGS Don’t stop, tell me that I earned this one Cos one is one too many, too many’s not enough I swallowed my pride, I just want the harder stuff My appetite anaesthetises love Don’t start telling me it’s all been fun If I’m getting paid to make you feel like you’re the one Tell me you look for it in every eye, the flaw Tell me the lies you think I’m looking for Do you see me? Looking through a glass darkly Angels sing in sympathy As I try to hold the fears in There’ll be hell to pay Squandering my words to say I could lose myself today As I try to kill the feelings If I start answering to a nom de plume I don’t care who’s in the room Disown me Hear ye, oh fellow fucked up sons of Abraham Another wounded child inside a man Inside a man to be Do you see me? Still dressed up for the liturgy Asking myself how do we, betray what we believe in? There’s part of me that’s propping up the bar you see Or is the bar propping up me As I try to kill the feelings? I try to kill the feelings
2.
CRIPPLED LOVE So long, in the backseat on The One Stolen shades, staring straight into the sun Last night, picking your bones clean in the green room I dreamed I saw you bleed out on the stage Meth towns, closing our eyes in the motel pools My God, how I sleepwalk through the days This comedown, they set it all up for the next fools It’s your round, I’ll put another one away I know my crippled love won’t turn you down Only your love could save you, now Only your love could save you now I’m in the Chapel, looking for you in the faces I’m in the waffle house, dropping food upon the floor Somehow, the grace in this day still amazes, me Somehow I still kneel before the door I know my crippled love won’t turn you down Only your love could save you, now Only your love could save you At the Zodiac, singing about the sin I didn’t want you to see the pain that I was in Here I am, no longer waiting on a saviour I’d only want another flavour, if you found me one At the Lexington, I Drink myself under the table You singing come as you are, I come undone Speak to part of me that’s more than what I do If I sing let me sing to the light in you I know my crippled love won’t turn you down Only your love could save you now I know my crippled love won’t turn you down Only your love could save you now Only your love could save you
3.
Waking Up 03:56
WAKING UP Neighbour can you help me, could you take the weight from me? Before I could you’re gonna have to wanna put it down I’d put the pain down, I’m afraid I won’t see mercy Teach me the song the new morning sings Sister don’t berate me, don’t forsake me, i’m a sinner I just hid the way they taught me to do Hanging in there, the line was thin and getting thinner The lies that kept me here were wearing through I can raise my voice Nowhere to hide It don’t come easily to me Out stone cold Coming back to life I’m waking up inside in the dream I’m waking up inside in the dream Love for you oh brother true it changes by the minute Burns out and it fails, sputters like a windblown flame A shot of poison is the choice of not forgiving In the gilded cage, the shadow play Raise your voice Be sanctified May that come easily for you Bought and sold Half alive I’m waking up inside the dream Who are you? I’m coming to believe I’m waking up inside in the dream (Am) Who are you? Yr just a go-between I’m waking up inside in the dream X 2 I’m waking up inside in the dream
4.
How To Love 06:46
HOW TO LOVE When you said listen for the spirit That word wouldn’t work for me When you said listen for your conscience I listened like a thief Saw myself inside a theatre Snoring through the show You said the devil’s out to beat you Seems you’ve been the last to know So kiss me on my brow A flame still burns above, my love I’m not afraid to try I’m afraid of trying and not feeling good enough I look for comfort in the pleasures All the world was not enough for me Remind me that I knew you Or my heart would not believe Once I saw the Grand Canyon From the window of a plane When the devil wants to find me You know he answers to my name And he’ll be back again How much suffering’s enough, my friend? I’m not afraid to die No, I’m afraid of dying not knowing how to love Not knowing How to love Not knowing How to love, her
5.
SERENITY PRAYER Now I think I see the name of my disease Now I live to see the one Give me one more time to get up off my knees One more time around the sun Now I think I see the paradise See it in a whole new light I see a part of me behind your eyes Now I’m surrendering the fight Thy will be done I was clawing my way towards a new shame Always leaning on an alibi I was forgetting my real name Always questioning the why Thy will be done
6.
MISERY & COMPANY I had to step into the light to sing it to you They see me with my eyes closed, honey I’d drink into the night, what good did it do This rabbit in the headlights strumming? Afraid of it all, who’s running the show? A circus of my own imagination Misery and company This can’t be the end I’m putting on a face, I’m some kind of clown A cannonball, afraid of flying Underneath the sideshow that never left town An epitaph that reads “still trying” Learning how to fall, there’s nothing to know Light me up like Blackpool illuminations Misery and company This can’t be the end If my heart My heart’s still beating My heart, it’s beating over again I’m in love with it all, who’s running the show? A circus of my own imagination Misery and company Misery and company Misery and company This can’t be the end If my heart My heart’s still beating My heart, it’s beating over again Now show me, anything holier than…
7.
GIVE MYSELF AWAY The slowest suicide Did something burn inside my heart? Untended like a flame As the embers died away At the break of the day, a light While I became a name What if angels keep me here It’s still my work alone to do In loving you And when it’s time to slip away And give my body to the dust and clay Try to honour love in all you do I wanna give myself away And I laugh til I cry Gonna miss my place at your lonely side I wanna give myself away Away so easily Will I wonder if I’d stayed, what would be? A castle in the tide So know that I am near And soon to follow Another soul to to feed Another soul to find Not a soul to be, to be denied I wanna give myself away And I laugh til I cry Gonna miss my place at your lonely side I wanna give myself away Away so easily Will I wonder if I’d stayed, what would be? I wanna give myself away
8.
STILL QUIET VOICE Why pray at night Unless there’s something to believe in More than desire A longing to be love Awake I find Another way to turn myself in While I was calling love a feeling It’s myself I was thinking of I’ve tried to hide Tried to make myself a stranger Tried to buy your love, in danger Of not forgiving who I was I can’t deny I’ve been quick to point the finger Can’t hear the song for the singer It’s myself that I’m thinking of How will I recognise a still quiet voice inside It is here, it is here, it is here I look to the light Am I getting used to kneeling? I got a little used to feeling That I never was enough I hold on tight Someone scrape me off the ceiling I pay less heed to love than feelings It’s myself that I’m thinking of How will I recognise a still quiet voice inside It is here, it is here, it is here How will I recognise a still quiet voice inside It is here, it is here, it is here How will I recognise a still quiet voice inside It is here, it is here, it is here How will I recognise a still quiet voice inside It is here, it is here, it is here It is here, it is here it is here, it is I’m hearing you now
9.
Comedown 04:34
COMEDOWN The mystery it’s calling you A ghost inside is haunting all that I do What I’m afraid to say out loud I dig myself another hole in the ground Now i’m seeing through my own disguise You put your body down and learn how to fly What was I afraid to say? To keep the gold in this life, give it away It’s one hell of a comedown And if it wasn’t for love I’d still get the feeling that somehow What I think I need, it’s never, it’s never enough Beautiful soul Carry the sorrow Oh, bring it to the light Now, Let it go Beautiful soul Carry the sorrow Oh, bring it to the light After all this passing through It’s like you’re here but you’re still in the next room Afraid to say your name I throw my arms up, now I’ll say it again It’s one hell of a comedown And if it wasn’t for love I’d still get the feeling that somehow What I think I need, it’s never enough It’s never enough Beautiful soul Carry the sorrow Oh, bring it to the light Now, Let it go Beautiful soul Carry the sorrow Oh, bring it to the light Oh, bring it to the light Now, Let it go Oh, bring it to the light Now, Let it go

about

"The Withered Hand comeback is a thing of triumph and feel-good wonder"
(Folk Radio UK)

"Nothing less than a shimmering masterpiece, a superb blend of the intimate and the epic"
(The Big Takeover)

"a deeply personal record, and yet while it deals with dark themes, the mood you are left with is ultimately of hope and possibility"
(God Is In The TV)

"How To Love resonates with a yearning Celtic soul expressed and embellished through full band arrangements for brass, strings and his own WH Salvation choir, plus backing vocals from talented supporters Kathryn Williams and King Creosote"
(The Scotsman)

"Songs that elevate the creator to membership of a small and rarefied group of artists. Songs that are both timeless and perfect for the here and now"
(The Swindonian)

credits

released April 28, 2023

All songs written by Dan Willson
Published by Rough Trade Publishing Ltd.

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Tony Doogan
at C.O.D. Studios Glasgow, Scotland.

Mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios, London, England.

Portrait by Jannica Honey.
Design by Tom Etherington.

This recording was supported by Creative Scotland.

Dan Willson - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar & Vocals
Malcolm Benzie - Electric Lead and Rhythm Guitars
Fraser Hughes - Bass Guitar
Owen Curtis Williams - Drums & Percussion
Peter Liddle - Keyboards
Pam Berry - Backing Vocals
 
Kenny Anderson - Guest vocals on tracks 2,5 and 8
Kathryn Williams - Guest vocals on tracks 2 and 6
Benedikt H. Hermannson - Organ/Harmonium on tracks 2 and 5
 
Brass on tracks 1,3 and 6
Performed by:
Richard Merchant  - Trumpet
Ross McCrae – Trombone
Lynsey Payne – Saxophone
 
Strings on track 9 arranged by Pete Harvey
Performed by The Pumpkinseeds:
Seonaid Aitken – Violin
Liam Lynch - Violin
Emma Connell-Smith - Viola
Pete Harvey - Cello
 
The WH Salvation Choir – Dan, Malcolm, Fraser, Owen, Eva W and Eugene W appear on tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9
 
 
Love and blessings to the band and everyone who performed on these recordings.

Thanks to Tom Rose, Gary C and Kate Tregaskis for their help and kindness.
 
Special thanks to Alastair, Rusty, Corry Reilly, Garrett Katerzynske & Atticus Fox Katerzynske, Sarah Wallace & Mark Haines, Kate MacKenzie, Jeremy Mathews, Lynne Harvie, Peter G, Paul & Robin. Gratitude and love to the WH Patreon Community and all friends and supporters and guiding lights; past and present.

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