‘The Feminine Divine’, the new album for Dexy’s Midnight Runners took a creative cycle of 30 years to make. Dexy’s co-founder Kevin Rowland says the first song on the album is 30 years old but it is only now it started to fit a Dexy’s project.
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Dexy’s ‘The Feminine Divine’ is a story about one person’s evolution. A lot of it is based on Kevin himself.
Kevin Rowland tells Noise11.com, “We did an album in 2016 called ‘Dexy’s Do Irish and Country’. I was happy with the album but at the end of it, being with a major label, I didn’t know … just the business. I needed to get away. We had done two albums, ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar’ in 2012 and then straight into the Irish one. I hadn’t really had a rest and I was drained. I started to do some courses and try and improve myself. I started to change a bit. The more I got out of my head and into my body I started to look at things differently and women differently. I just sat down one night and wrote that song, ‘The Feminine Divine’, the title track. Then I started to see what other songs we had and then saw if I put that one first and that one second it was going to tell a story. It wasn’t by design. It was just when I looked at the tracks. The first two or three songs I wrote with Jim (Paterson) 30 years ago. That’s where I was 30 years ago and then it moved through”.
Dexy’s ‘The Feminine Divine’ will be released on 28 July, 2023.
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