''Odludek'' is the debut solo album by Jimi Goodwin, released on

Heavenly Recordings Heavenly Recordings is a London-based independent record label founded by Jeff Barrett in 1990. Heavenly released the first albums from Saint Etienne (band), Saint Etienne, Beth Orton and Doves (band), Doves, and early singles by Manic Street P ...

on 24 March 2014. The album follows a few years after his band, Doves, announced they were taking an "indefinite hiatus." The word ''odludek'' is a Polish word, meaning "pilgrim" or "loner." Goodwin wrote and played almost everything on ''Odludek'' himself, with only a handful of guest musicians, including Elbow frontman

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and former

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member Fredrik Bjorling, and the album was recorded and co-produced with

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at a studio in the Forest of Dean across 18 months. Goodwin said, "Initially I wanted to have loads of guests on it. Maybe I wasn't trusting my own instincts because I'd collaborated in a band for such a long time, but that idea soon went out the window. Very quickly I decided I wanted to get my Prince head on and play everything. I became very protective of it. There was no-one steering me. I made it myself and paid for it myself, and that was very free and liberating." ''Odludek'' spawned four promotional-only singles; second single "Live Like a River" was given a commercial release on 12" vinyl, featuring exclusive remixes of the title track and album opener "Terracotta Warrior". A dub remix of "Didsbury Girl" was released as a vinyl single for Record Store Day 2015.

Track listing

Charts

References

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