Gruff Rhys

This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomass first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm BrinninGruff Rhys presents the soundtrack to the film Set Fire To The Stars. Although recorded around the same time as Gruffs last LP (2014s hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and Atomic Age bop, its a love letter to New York in all its hopeful, post war glory - a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruffs increasingly brilliant solo catalogue.