Willy Mason has announced his first new solo album in nearly a decade – you can hear his new single ‘Youth On A Spit’ below.‘Already Dead’ will be released on August 6 via Cooking Vinyl and is the long-awaited follow-up to Mason’s last LP ‘Carry On’, which came out in 2012.“‘Already Dead’ is a spiritual state to aspire to; it is freedom from the trappings and inhibitions of one’s ego, culture and mythology,” Mason said in a statement about the philosophy behind the writing of the album. “It is freedom and love and freedom to love in the face of death.“It’s about the necessary destruction of one’s mythology; mythology of species, sex, race, nation, self.
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