Hayden Thorpe came to prominence as the lead singer and chief songwriter for the much-celebrated band Wild Beasts, who released five acclaimed albums on Domino Records before disbanding.
Hayden has since released three solo albums on Domino: Diviner, a critically adored work of solitude and fragility. Sophomore album Moondust For My Diamond, a work that is galvanising, reassuring, elegant, seductive, and oozing in Big Cosmic Energy.
September 2024 saw the release of Ness, an album of rare ambition and singular beauty made in collaboration with best-selling nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Known for his distinctive voice and sultry compositions, Thorpe’s return to Cumbria marks a new era for his craft, reflective of the natural environment he lives surrounded by.
This multifaceted Cumbrian artist and former Wild Beasts frontman returns to Krankenhaus, this year to talk about his album Ness, which was inspired by the book of the same name by landscape writer Robert Macfarlane. The Hayden Thorpe Ness draws on the strange history of Suffolk’s Orford Ness, a former Ministry Of Defence weapons development site. Both the book and the album feature artwork by Stanley Donwood. Hayden will be in conversation with BBC 6 Music broadcaster Deb Grant.