Name: Dying Star
Brand: Ruston Kelly

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

7205713

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-09-21

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0888072057135

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Artist

Ruston Kelly

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

Rounder

The full-length debut from singer / songwriter Ruston Kelly, Dying Star is a document of self-destruction and salvation. With a storytelling sensibility that constantly shifts from candid to poetic, the Nashville-based artist details his experience with addiction, which included time in rehab and an overdose in early 2016. Rooted in a delicately sculpted sound that shows every nuance of his vocal delivery, Dying Star captures all the chaos and heartbreak on the way to finding redemption. Kelly co-produced Dying Star with Jarrad K (Kate Nash, Weezer), enlisting local musicians like singer/songwriter Natalie Hemby, Joy Williams (formerly of the Civil Wars), Kacey Musgraves (Kelly’s wife), and Abby Sevigny (Kelly’s sister) to bring the album’s gracefully melodic, guitar-driven arrangements to life. With each song centered on lucid self-examination, Kelly shapes his narrative with equal parts. Kelly comes across like a scruffier voiced Ryan Adams obsessed with both Merle Haggard and The Misfits.

Dying Star

Music GB