Post-Britpop band Starsailor have announced the release of Good Souls: The Greatest Hits, a compilation of hit tracks from their catalogue.
The group formed in 2000 and has since enjoyed a string of successful releases. Their debut album Love Is Here and the 2003 follow up Silence Is Easy both reaching the #2 spot on the UK album chart, whilst racking up 3 million sales. Now their biggest hits have been compiled onto a new record set for release on September 18th on Parlophone Records.
The album will include ‘Good Souls’, ‘Silence Is Easy’ and ‘Alcoholic’ as well as an array of other popular tracks, a further seven of which reached the Top 40. The new release was inspired by the band’s triumphant reunion, playing a set on the main stage at the Isle of Wight Festival 2014. They subsequently toured as special guests to James, before a 2015 North American co-headline tour with Embrace.
Frontman James Walsh commented ‘It’s been over 15 years since the band first formed and the songs still mean something to people. They still sing the words passionately back at us at gigs. We hear stories of how songs have soundtracked key moments in their lives. That’s why we felt it was the right time to release this album – hopefully if the songs mean this much to our loyal fans this collection can help spread the word wider. People who know us for ‘Four To The Floor’ or ‘Alcoholic’ can delve a little deeper.’
In addition to the classic songs found on Good Souls, the album will include two brand new tracks produced by Harry Rutherford at the famous Fisher Lane Studios.
‘Give Up The Ghost’ came from the energy of being back together after so much time,’ explains Walsh. ‘It’s about not being ready to give up on something despite the challenges that you face.’ The other new track is the ballad ‘Hold On’. ‘The lyrics are about reassuring someone who has their life ahead of them and passing wisdom onto them. We wanted to get an anthemic chorus which should get the crowd going.’
Good Souls: The Greatest Hits tracklisting:
1. Good Souls
2. Silence is Easy
3. Alcoholic
4. Give Up The Ghost
5. In The Crossfire
6. Poor Misguided Fool
7. Four To The Floor
8. This Time
9. Fever
10. Born Again
11. Lullaby
12. Keep Us Together
13. Way To Fall
14. All The Plans
15. Hold On
16. Tell Me It’s Not Over
17. Tie Up My Hands
18. Fidelity
19. Four To the Floor (Thin White Duke Mix) (Bonus Track
October UK headline tour dates:
2nd – Liverpool, O2 Academy 1
3rd – Manchester, Albert Hall
4th – Newcastle, Riverside
5th – Glasgow, O2 ABC
7th – Leeds, Becketts Students’ Union
8th – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall
9th – Northampton, Roadmender
11th – Norwich, Waterfront
12th – Cambridge, Junction
13th – Leicester, O2 Academy 1
15th – Oxford, O2 Academy 1
16th – Bristol, Bierkeller
17th – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
