Jez Williams - Life Of Me And You

Doves’ guitarist and vocalist, Jez Williams, releases his ten track album, Life Of Me And You.

Enjoying four decades in music as a writer, performer and producer, Life Of Me And You follows Williams’ widely celebrated work with Doves, including three No.1 albums, as well as the cult 90’s dance trio Sub Sub and Black Rivers, the band he formed in 2012 with his twin brother and bandmate, Andy Williams. 

In choosing Hollow Man as the first cut of music to be more widely shared, Williams arrives with purpose to introduce a deeply introspective and musically adventurous album influenced by Lou Reed, UFOs, sassy sixties pop stars, Balearic chill and ‘slow disco’.

“Without resorting to clichés, ‘Hollow Man’ is about our modern life,” he explains. “It can just so easily take the soul out of you. Too much information, too many opinions, too much change coming from all angles. Tsunamis of information coming at you. It can be overwhelming. It makes you less present and makes you more in your head. I thought to put all of that to a sort of AC/DC-style riff, breaking out into a wider chorus. It all just came out in one go.”

With a back catalogue of adventurous music already behind him, bringing folk, soul, soundtrack and world music to Doves’ six studio albums released since 2000, Williams is keen to put a firm dividing line between what listeners have heard before and what’s to come.
 
“You cut me and I bleed Doves, right?” he says. “But with this album, I made a conscious effort to try and say something else on my own. Without being too morbid, I want to put this album out as a little footprint of mine. When I am not here anymore, there will be something out there for my daughter or whoever else.
 
“I’ve worked really hard on it. It’s been a labour of love, and I just want one thing out there that’s all my own.”