Hugo Race's new album is a musical and lyrical tour de force. Recorded with his band Fatalists and Australian guest stars Georgia Knight and TJ Howden, the album contains new, highly emotional songs. This special album was produced during the isolation years 2020-22. Hugo is a living legend of the international underground, ex-Bad Seeds, ex-Oz postpunkers The Wreckery and since 1989 a non-conformist producer, performer and songwriter with Dirtmusic, The True Spirit; In his own words: "The first demos were recorded in late 2019 with the band in Italy. A few months later the world came to a standstill and for the next twenty months I was stuck in my Melbourne flat... then me and my girlfriend split up... I've never felt more alone. I called the Fatalists in Italy, Checco, Diego and Scorpio Joe, and we started exchanging songs and ideas to forge a path through the void. The new songs slowly emerged from dreams and memories: writing about the past without a glimpse of the future in sight, there was a lot of damage to process. The themes are so personal that I left the album many times and then returned to it, like a toxic love story. I love this album and the incredible band behind it. We also made Italian versions of the songs because Italy is in our roots and, fate permitting, Fatalist will be on the road again in the spring of 2022..."
