Ed Harcourt

Since being Mercury Prize-nominated for 2001’s Here Be Monsters (preceded by the Maplewood mini-album), then winning innumerable accolades with 2003's From Every Sphere (which included the hit, ‘All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed’), Ed Harcourt has been falling in love, striding through Swedish snow in search of wild boars, recording with crack-addled cultish American rockers, touring U.S. arenas with R.E.M. and Wilco, rapping in karaoke bars, getting beaten up and almost run over by Mexican skinheads for accidentally throwing gravel at their car in Colorado, performing at tributes to Gram Parsons, Jeff Buckley, Randy Newman, Neil Young and The Beatles, and deciding that every moment of every song should be the most important thing you’ve ever done.

With this in mind, he wrote his most honest and exposed album, Strangers. The opus was produced by Jari Haapalainen (The Concretes, etc) at the Aerosol Grey Machine Studio in the middle of woods in Sweden.

“I’m not kidding, there were wild pigs, stray cats – I’ll show you pictures if you don’t believe me. Though you won’t like our moustaches."

Fourth album The Beautiful Lie hits the UK in June 2006.

Biography from Edharcourt.com. Photo courtesy of Emma Porter.