Sound of Vinyl

Daniel Knox has announced his fifth studio album Won't You Take Me With You will be released 15 January via his own label, H.P. Johnson Presents.

The album follows up his critically acclaimed 2018 album Chasescene. Along with the announcement he has also shared lead single 'Fool In The Heart'. What follows is a list of just a few of the locations where the songs on Won’t You Take Me With You take place:

- A Chicago alleyway where he snuck into a building at night but got stuck inside.
- Late at night, well off the beaten path in Washington Park, unknowingly watched by a laughing, smoking stranger.
- A run-down mall, once resplendent and now forgotten.
- A hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee where a miracle took place.
- Driving along the highway trying to decide whether or not he wanted to crash.

Knox’s music has always been filled with wormholes and stories. Characters and places that exist on the fringes of imagination and reality populate his songs - seemingly unobserved. There’s always been a feeling in Knox’s music that these stories are connected, and on this new record it begins to become clear how. "Every song on Won’t You Take Me With You has a trap door that leads to one or more other songs on the record," says Knox, but if you look a little deeper, these trapdoors also dip in and out of the mythology that makes up his entire back catalogue.

To put it in Daniel’s words, "I wanted the songs to stand apart but still hold hands. It was important to me that these songs all know each other, but not necessarily live in the same time and place."