Everything Is Recorded Announces Guest-Packed Third Album

Everything Is Recorded, the heavily collaborative recording project of XL Recordings head Richard Russell, will release its third album, Temporary, on Feb. 28 through the label. A new single, “Losing You” featuring Sampha, Laura Groves, Yazz Ahmed and Jah Wobble, is out now in tandem with an Ed Morris-directed video.

The 14-track Temporary is loaded with an eclectic guest list featuring Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch, Kamasi Washington, Samantha Morton, Jack Peňate, Mary in the Junkyard’s Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished by Time.

Of the music, which is described as “more fragile and quieter” than previous release, Russell admits, “I never listened to folk music when I was younger. I had no patience, no time back then to appreciate someone like Nick Drake, or Bob Dylan. I was moving at way too fast a pace.”

Temporary is the follow-up to 2020’s FRIDAY FOREVER, although Russell has released four album-length compositions in the past 12 months on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. He also produced a song from Peter Gabriel’s long-in-the-works album i/o and this old house, the first EP from Mary in the Junkyard.

Here is the track list for Temporary:

1. October

2. My and Me (feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Ricky Washington and Alabaster DePlume)

3. Porcupine Tattoo (feat. Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan)

4. Never Felt Better (feat. Sampha and Florence Welch)

5. Ether (feat. Maddy Prior)

6. Losing You (feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble and Yazz Ahmed)

7. Firelight (feat. Florence Welch, Berwyn and Alabaster DePlume)

8. The Summons

9. No More Rehearsals (feat. Roses Gabor, Jah Wobble, Jack Peñate and Yazz Ahmed)

10. You Were Smiling (feat. Samantha Morton)

11. Norm (feat. Bill Callahan)

12. Swamp Dream #3 (feat. Clari Freeman-Taylor)

13. The Meadows (feat. Roses Gabor, Kamasi Washington and Rickey Washington)

14. Goodbye (Hell of a Ride) (feat. Nourished By Time)