Withered Hand

Located in Edinburgh, Scottish indie folk-pop react Withered Hand may be the single task of singer/songwriter Dan Willson. A experienced of multiple rings in past due-’90s and early-2000s Edinburgh music picture, Willson started his single career after getting an classical guitar from his wife being a 30th birthday present. Migrating gradually from bandmate to single artist, he started singing and composing his very own loose, jangly music, eventually launching his debut EP, Spiritual Songs, beneath the moniker Withered Hands. Finding immediate achievement with the brand new format, Willson released another EP in ’09 2009 before teaming up with renowned American manufacturer Kramer to create his initial full-length album, VERY GOOD NEWS, this year 2010. Along with his ragged tenor and frequently lo-fi, acoustic-based appear, Willson has arrive to represent a particular regular in the U.K. D.We.Y. picture and was an integral part of the Fife-based Fence Collective with serves like Ruler Creosote and Adam Yorkston. Two even more Withered Hands EPs made an appearance in 2012 before Willson came back to the studio room to record his follow-up LP. His second full-length, New Gods, premiered in early 2014 by Fortuna Pop and Slumberland. The record was made by Tony Doogan (Hill Goats, Belle and Sebastian) and features help from Dark Tambourine’s Pam Berry, Eugene Kelly from the Vaselines, and users of Belle and Sebastian and Frightened Rabbit.