Ex-Locust vocalist teams up with Mark Van Hoen (Mojave 3, Locust, Sing Sing). Influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker.

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A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me is the debut album by ex-Locust vocalist, Craig Bethell. The album displays a plaintive song-writing style that unashamedly croons its way through a set of eleven varied songs influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker. Bethellâs vocals are late night deliveries, a haunting idiom of the post-modern torch song.

Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Mojave 3, Sing Sing) lends production duties and evokes an atmosphere of âlowâ-era Bowie, (as on the instrumental overture of âDecemberâ), employs a careful use of Rhodes piano & subtle strings (âBad Bloodâ), as well as vintage synthesizer, distant harp motifs and brushed drums (âFinding The Lightâ & âHistory Repeats Itselfâ).

London based songwriter/singer Craig Bethell has sporadically written, recorded and performed his songs since 1983. His working life has largely been devoted to magazine publishing. Through demand from different quarters (die-hard Locust fans, new fans via MySpace etc.), Craig was encouraged to revisit the best of hitherto unreleased material from past sessions with Van Hoen. These works were revised, rerecorded, remixed and revamped, along with some completely new material, to make up A Day Full Of You, A Night Tired Of Me, an album many years in the making.

6 panel digipak, cover (âBundledâ 1925) courtesy of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation.