English songwriter Benjamin Woods, better known as The Golden Dregs, has signed to 4AD for his third album, On Grace & Dignity, out February 10. The album was written, recorded, and produced in his childhood bedroom in Truro, Cornwall, after he lost his job and moved back home in 2020. Per a press release:
The only work he could get was as a labourer on a poorly run building site on the grimmest outskirts of Truro. “It was such a bleak winter – waist-deep in mud digging holes and rolling out turf on top of building waste, really grim stuff, which became the backdrop to the stories I was trying to write,” he adds, citing Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis and Richard Hugo as influences.