With the fires still warm from Divorce's recent acclaimed debut album Drive to Goldenhammer, Felix Mackenzie-Barrow, co-vocalist and guitarist from the band, has today shared details of his debut solo project under the moniker Book of Churches. Unveiling the news with the tender and softly played Song By A Stranger, the track's from the record came together in fleeting moments, with each song written in one day, recorded the next, and left largely untouched until the album was handed over to Richie Kennedy (Interpol, The Last Dinner Party) for mixing. Felix comments on the lead single: "Song by a Stranger is the first song on the record because in some ways it felt like the blueprint for how I wanted to make the album. I wrote a note in my phone whilst in the back of the van about a shaft of light falling like an arm across the seats in front of me. I got home for a couple of days off and wrote the song the night I arrived. The next day I recorded it and I didn’t touch it again until Richie Kennedy mixed it in late 2025."
Continuing about the album he says: “It feels a bit like a travelogue. In some ways, when I wrote these songs, I was talking to the person I was no longer in a relationship with – just saying hello. Sometimes, the songs were attempts at looking for a North Star that I could speak to. It's this idea of how big the world is, and how precious those few connections that you have with people are, and how you can feel those so acutely across vast spaces and times. Book of Churches is basically a metaphor for how I felt making these songs. These songs are like my version of whatever church is.”
Book of Churches - Book of Churches album tracklisting
1. Song By A Stranger
2. All The Good Things
3. There You Go I Love You
4. North Atlantic Ocean
5. The Quiet Was A Heron
6. I Lean
7. Big Love
8. Hard Dride
9. Catalpa In The Sky
10. Stones In Your Bag
Book of Churches UK headline tour dates 2026
23 April - The Hope & Ruin, Brighton, UK
25 April - The Castle, Manchester, UK
26 April - The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK
28 April - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, UK
29 April - The Cube, Bristol, UK
30 April - St Pancras Old Church, London, UK
01 May - Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 9th January HERE.
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