Cruel World Festival artist news: David J of Love and Rockets

David J, founding member/bassist for Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, put out various solo albums starting in the 1980s through last year.

Now, he has partnered with Cleopatra Records to reissue some of the solo efforts.

First up is Not Long For This World. Originally released in 2011, David J describes it as “a meditation on the subject of mortality… brimming with poignancy, lachrymose yet laced with gallows humour galore.” The album is out now on 6-panel digipak for CD and red marble vinyl.

Also available now is 2014's An Eclipse Of Ships. With lyrical themes of love and lust, it is a “polyamorous ‘little black book’ in song, essentially a journal of the heart and a paean to Woman as muse. The album is a showcase for lustrous jewels retrieved by a gentleman thief from the boudoirs of beautiful women.” 

It also features a multitude of musicians and instruments, from saxophone to mandolin to oboe to pedal steel guitar, that expands the sonic palette beyond the traditional rock format. This one is also reissued in a deluxe digipak with limited-edition silver vinyl.

There’s more to come, including 1985's Crocodile Tears And The Velvet Cosh, the 1986 highlights collection On Glass, 2003’s Estranged and the highly sought after rarity Embrace Your Dysfunction credited to David J’s Cabaret Oscuro.

Order the CD/vinyl of Not Long For This World: https://cleorecs.com/store/?s=david+j+not+long+for+this+world&post_type=product

Stream/download: https://orcd.co/davidj_notlongforthisworld

Order the CD/vinyl of An Eclipse Of Ships: https://cleorecs.com/store/?s=david+j+an+eclipse+of+ships&post_type=product
Stream/download: https://orcd.co/davidj_aneclipseofships

Not Long For This World Track List:

1. Because You're Gone
2. Gloomy Sunday
3. Dead And Lovely
4. St. James Infirmary
5. Hank Williams To The Angel Of Death
6. Spalding Gray Can't Swim
7. Eulogy For Jeff Buckley
8. Dagger In The Well
9. The Last Cigarette
10. Dress Sexy At My Funeral
11. Lorca's Death
12. Farewell My Friend
13. Not Long For This World

An Eclipse Of Ships Track List:

1. Dust In The Wind
2. Hot Sheet Hotel
3. You Suit A Rainy Day
4. Little Miss Impeccable
5. Yokohama Blues
6. Visitation
7. In The Blue Hour In Berlin
8. Excruciating Allure
9. La Femme De Montréal
10. Where The Bloodline Ends
11. The You Of Yesteryear