No Selfish Heart

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No Selfish Heart
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Studio album by
Rick Redbeard
Released28 January 2013
Recorded Aberdeenshire, Glasgow, Bernese Oberland
Genre Alternative folk, alternative country
Length43.07
Label Chemikal Underground
Producer Rick Anthony
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Arts DeskStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [2]
The Herald (Glasgow) favourable [3]
The List Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Quietus favourable [6]
Scotland on Sunday Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Scotsman Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Uncut 9/10 [10]

No Selfish Heart is the first album by Rick Redbeard, the solo recording pseudonym of Scottish musician Rick Anthony. It was released on 28 January 2013 through Chemikal Underground Records to critical acclaim. [11] [12]

Contents

It was self-recorded by Anthony in Aberdeenshire, Glasgow and the Bernese Oberland in the first half of 2012. It is composed of songs written by Anthony between 2004 and 2012 [1] as well as a version of the traditional Scottish folk song Kelvin Grove and one older home-recording from 2007, the single Now We're Dancing. [13] [14]

Themes

The album deals primarily with themes of nature, love, sex, death, memory, nostalgia and the passage of time [6] [13] [15] and has a stripped back sound and emphasis on acoustic instrumentation that is markedly different from Anthony's prior work with The Phantom Band. [7] [16]

Influences

Critics noted the influence on the album of iconic artists such as Leonard Cohen, Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, Jason Molina, Jim Reid (folk musician), Alasdair Roberts and Neil Young [6] [16] [17] as well as the dark, sparse Southern gothic prose of Cormac McCarthy and the surreal fantasy of Alasdair Gray. [14] [18] Anthony has also spoken of the influence that landscape and nature has on his writing, specifically the scenery of his native Aberdeenshire [15] and the mountains of the Bernese Alps. [19]

Track listing

  1. "Clocks" - 2.19
  2. "Old Blue" - 4.06
  3. "Any Way I Can" - 5.21
  4. "A Greater Brave" - 5.08
  5. "We All Float" - 3.03
  6. "Kelvin Grove" - 5.52
  7. "Now We're Dancing" - 4.02
  8. "Cold As Clay (The Grave)" - 4.07
  9. "Wildlove" - 3.11
  10. "No Selfish Heart" - 5.59

Personnel

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