Everything Is Recorded, AKA: Richard Russell, announces news of their third studio album, Temporary, will drop on February 28th, 2025 via XL Recordings. The album includes contributions from Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time.

Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, Temporary was recorded in the main at Russell’s own west London Copper House studio, alongside sessions in Tottenham, Cumbria, Dorset, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and is set to build on previous releases including 2018’s debut self-titled album. On Temporary, spiritually and lyrically the themes encompass grief and loss. The results – elevated by an intriguing and diverse set of collaborators who sound like the best and freshest versions of themselves – are the most luminous and relaxed compositions of Russell’s career. Every song sounds washed in sunshine and graced by tenderness. More fragile and quieter than previous Everything Is Recorded output, it might be one of the gentlest records ever made about death. In Russell’s own words “making the album was joyous, a way of hallowing life.”

To celebrate news of the album, Everything Is Recorded today releases “Losing You”, the second single to be taken from the album. It features the redemptive vocals of longtime collaborators Sampha and Laura Groves alongside musical contributions from British-Bahraini composer and trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, and bass hero Jah Wobble, who brings the transformative, low-slung bass energy Russell has always sought. The single is accompanied by a stunning night-shot video by director Ed Morris that features Russell, Sampha, Ahmed, Wobble, Tic, and Mary In The Junkyard’s Clari Freeman-Taylor (who also provides vocals on the album’s “Swamp Dream #3”, a clip of which can be heard in the video). “Losing You” follows the release of the album’s first single, “Porcupine Tattoo” in September, a stripped-back lament featuring two American musical icons – Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan – appearing on record together for the very first time. The duo also appear in a Hardy Blechman-directed music video for the song that was released last week.

Temporary
Everything Is Recorded
XL Recordings
Tracklisting

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)

Pre-Order Temporary HERE