Ierse singer/songwriter Doctor Millar bracht op 9 september nieuw album uit: 'Ruining Everything'.

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  Van Muylem    11 september 2022

Op 9 september 2022 verscheen op het Rotterdamse Gentlemen Recordings het zesde album van Ierse singer/songwriter Doctor MillarRuining Everything is de opvolger van C48 uit 2013. Het nieuwe album is zonder twijfel het meest folky album van Doctor Millar, met bijdragen van iconen als Donal Lunny, Hothouse Flowers' Liam O'Maonlai en Bill Banjo Whelan.


Doctor Millar over Ruining Everything:
"I have always been a folk musician. If you know me and my career you'll know that my two biggest influences are Planxty and The Velvet Underground. Lou Reed started out as a folk musician. This album was recorded during lockdown, during a difficult time personally, while I stumbled from health crisis to health crisis against the backdrop of the pandemic, lockdown and what was being predicted as the possible end of the live gig scene. Like so many, I was cut off from my family and my friends and my way of life. So I wanted to make an album that felt like I was playing in someone's front room. Like I was with the listener, right there. I was listening to the incredible string band a lot, and I think the album is probably most influenced by them. The way they jump from American to British stylings without feeling they have to explain or mediate that."

Andere grote artiesten over Doctor Millar
Hot Press, State Magazine en de Ierse RTE Guide beschreven Doctor Millar als “Irelands best lyricist”. En de Irish times noemde hem “an Irish National Treasure”. Damien Rice over zijn eerste ontmoeting met Séan Millar: 
 "I remember he came on stage and looked a little nervous. He fumbled a bit, said hi and then started to play. It was amazing. He was so different to everyone else playing that night. His dark, honest lyrics. His terribly good melodies.” En hij is niet de enige Ierse muzikale grootheid die Doctor Millar ophemelt: Gavin Friday zweert bij de man en coverde samen met de band Preacher Song zijn song "O Lipstick". Glen Hansard van The Frames vroeg hem voor een korte cameo rol in de veelvuldig bekroonde film Once. Voor David Balfe van For Those I Love was Doctor Millar’s debuutalbum The Bitter Lie een voorbeeld en hij noemde Séan “one of the most underrated of Irish songwriters”. En onlangs noemde Paolo Nutini Doctor Millar’s These Days, van datzelfde album, ‘the track that changed my life’.

Ruining Everything is vanaf vrijdag 9 september beschikbaar op cd, als digital album en op alle streamingplatforms. Het album is vanaf nu te pre-orderen via de Gentlemen Webshop: https://www.gentlemenrecordings.com/shop.