Kathryn Williams has announced the release of her forthcoming new boxset Kathryn Williams Anthology which she has, with the help of her label, One Little Indian, been compiling over the past couple of years.
The anthology covers her work from Dog Leap Stairs to Hypoxia and everything in-between. She explained that it had “been a crazy ride going through reel-to-reel, mini-disks, DAT-tapes, cassettes, CDs and every other format I’ve used to record music over the years.”
Pre-orders of The Anthology will be sent out early on 26th April 2019 before it hits the record stores from 28th June 2019 onwards. Watch the trailer below:
In a note to fans she added:
This boxset is intended to be a massive thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my career and as I didn’t want to sell you stuff you already had, there is a bonus disc for each album featuring unreleased material. On top of a beautifully designed outer box, there will also be a book of lyrics and a book of memories, all decorated with my own paintings and drawings.
There will be a limited number of signed copies available via my label’s online store, as well as exclusive bundles that include hi-resolution scans of my favourite paintings. The following options will be available:
– Standard CD boxset
– Signed CD boxset
– Signed CD boxset + four scanned prints
– Signed CD boxset + eight scanned prints
I truly hope you are as excited as I am, it has been a crazy journey.
You have all been so good to me since the beginning and this is me wanting to give something back
Loads of love as always,
Kath x
In this new musical world when we talk about an artist’s body of work we tend to think of a handful of records stretched out across a handful of years, if we’re lucky. A changing industry and a focus on immediacy has done little to alter such notions, which makes Kathryn Williams something of an anomaly – releasing eleven full-length albums under her own name (and more with various side-projects) since her debut LP, Dog Leap Stairs, was released in 1999 via her own CAW Records label.
As impressive a stat as that might be, it does little to capture the true magic of Williams work; the enchanting craft that has grown and expanded as she’s moved from one project to the next, from the breakthrough success of her Mercury Prize-nominated ‘Little Black Numbers’ LP all the way to her Sylvia Plath tribute project Hypoxia and his year’s ‘Greatest Hits’ collection – not a greatest hits at all, in fact, rather an imagined retrospective for a fictional artist and an inspired soundtrack to Laura Barnett’s new novel of the same name.
Pre-Order via One Little Indian here.