Pictures Of Our Youth

David’s Lyre has today revealed the details and release date of his long-awaited debut album!

The album’s taken roughly a year to record but has been marred by conflicts with his former major record label and speaking on his website, David’s Lyre (real name Paul Dixon) said, “The hardest part of this process has been creating music I felt excited about, and proud of, but not being able to share it with you. I remain hugely grateful for the opportunities and patronage given to me, but it is evident that the natural tension in the relationship between art and business within the music industry, is currently at its most strained. I join an ever-expanding group of artists who are opting out of this model in order to bring you, the fans, our best.”

The final track of the LP has just been released as a taster/teaser but is also available as a free download.

Having left the label just before Christmas, he’s now decided to release the album, Pictures of our Youth, via his bandcamp page on a pay-what-you-want basis. This is no doubt a controversial and risky move but here at Mahogany we applaud him massively for his actions – the album sounds stunning and it’s one of the few records we’ll actually break the wallet out for – obviously that doesn’t speak for everybody but it’s a ballsy move and we respect it.

In this world, becoming an established artist with music in the charts and expensive music videos can ironically take only a couple of months – but more often than not it’s short-lived, lacking of any real emotion and fails to create actual fans. Self-releasing this album may not have been his original plan but it adds a whole new emotion, passion and thick skin to the artist – and sets up an entirely new platform for writing and creating new material for what we hope will be a second record down the line.