Bonnie Prince Billy | 23/10/07
The prolific Bonnie 'Prince' Billy returns to delight and intrigue with Ask Forgiveness released on the 19th November.
A collection of cover version victories, effortlessly making each one of these songs his own, having taken them within, loved them — and then singing them out again in his own idiosyncratic interpretation.
Covering a handful of wildly diverse artists as varied as Björk Guðmundsdóttir and R Kelly, these renditions were recorded off the hoof in Philadelphia with a stripped down ensemble including Meg Baird on acoustics and vocals, Greg Weeks on electric guitar of Espers and aided and abetted by Maggie Wienk on cello.
Following the release of the wonderful The Letting Go , this year Bonnie 'Prince' Billy has appeared in the ‘Hip-Hopera’ phenomena - Trapped in the Closet , an hilarious cover of Kanye West's Can't Tell Me Nothing with comedian Zack Galifianakis.
Maybe there's a big game show style spinning board that guides him, or maybe a tribal shaman he consults, but there's no way to anticipate what the Bonnie 'Prince' is going to do next. We wouldn’t have it any other way though right?
You lucky people can Ask Forgiveness now and pre-order from our Domino Mart .

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