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Familial (album)
''Familial'' is the debut solo studio album by the English musician Philip Selway, best known as the drummer of the rock band Radiohead. It was released on 30 August 2010 in the United Kingdom and received mainly positive reviews. Music ''Familiar'' contains ten tracks written by Selway, with contributions from various musicians. Selway performed acoustic guitar and vocals; ''Pitchfork'' described the album as a collection of "hushed folk songs" in the tradition of the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake. On 1 July 2010, Selway streamed the opening track from the album, "By Some Miracle", from his website, and offered a free high-quality download of the track via e-mail. Reception At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Familial'' has a score of 66, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Selway
Philip James Selway (born 23 May 1967) is an English musician and the drummer of the English rock band Radiohead. Along with the other members of Radiohead, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Selway released his debut solo album, '' Familial'', in 2010, followed by '' Weatherhouse'' in 2014. He also composed the soundtrack for the 2017 film ''Let Me Go''. His third solo album, ''Strange Dance'', is scheduled for February 2023. Early life Selway was born on 23 May, 1967, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He started learning to play drums and guitar at the age of 15 for "the social cachet and love of music". His earliest influences were Joy Division, the Clash and the Velvet Underground. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, an independent school for boys. Selway, along with the guitarist Ed O'Brien, was in the year above the singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood, and three years above the multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
