William John Titus Bishop
William John Titus Bishop’s latest was released on April 20th. It deals with questions of ethnicity and is a political protest.
The album features a myriad of musicians from pop, folk, rock, classical and blues backgrounds. The artwork for the album was inspired by a number of anime artists, as well as contemporary portrait artist Grace Lau, in order to demonstrate Bishop’s experience of ethnic diversity in British and American cultures under a conservative government. Bishop experienced a kind of musical censorship in Johnson and Sunak's conservativism, prompting him to learn a third language and re-locate to Kalmar for much of the writing of the album. It builds on the momentum of Bishop’s 2023 release I Hope That You Are Keeping Some Kind of A Record. Bishop states that ‘the single is an exploration of requited and unrequited love, from the perspective of a couple who meet, fall into what may confusedly be called love and then part.’ The record was produced, mixed mastered and recorded in Brighton UK and features a breakaway from the production of his earlier singles, a sound which Bishop began experimenting with on his last album. The Album comes at a point when Bishop had been looking for a sound more distinctive, and its use of synthesisers and keyboards shows a more developed sound from the artist.
He then recorded three full-length studio albums and amassed a following of over 1.5 million on social media and his last album gained 4 million Spotify streams in its first week. His music is used on degree courses at The Universities of York and Sussex where he was awarded an Ma in English and studied for a PhD.
The album’s lyrics closely follow the exploration of love in its various forms.
Streaming and social media:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0GvMYDhlp89jySwvARyCsK?si=H1kVlL9XSnaF0TosoqOIbA