Titled Things That Come and Go, the album is set to be released on the 7th February 2025.
Westway Music has announced that it will be releasing Hadley Fraser’s new album next month.
Produced by Fraser and Donald L Anderson for Palm Haven Studios, with arrangements and co-production by Sam Young it will be released on CD and digital platforms (available to pre-save here).
Hadley Fraser is known for his performances in Les Misérables (West End; 25th Anniversary Concert) and The Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Concert) as portraying ‘Anatoly’ in the West End Concert of Chess The Musical at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 2022. Recently he was cast in The Lehman Trilogy and Opening Night, both on the West End.
The track list for Things That Come and Go will include:
In The Wee Small Hours
I Get Along Without You
World On A String
Accustomed To Her Face
Fly Me To The Moon
How Are You Fixed For Love (feat. Maiya Quansah-Breed)
How Glory Goes
Goodbye (feat. Maiya Quansah-Breed)
I’m A Fool To Want You
You Must Believe In Spring
Talking about the album, Fraser said: “Having made a career largely out of smashing music and speech together on stage and seeing what comes out, I had gone a little further and experimented with music and poetry on my last album (Lights around the Shore with pianist Will Butterworth) and was keen to do so again. Things That Come And Go is the result of my input into a larger project (called Odysseys) together with Don Anderson and the actor Jamie Thomas King. Odysseys as a whole will emerge in time, but we felt that the music could stand on its own two feet too. And so here it is, without the spoken word for now.
I had worked with Sam Young before – only briefly – but I knew he was the person I wanted above all else to arrange these songs. Sam has a ridiculous ear, prodigious talent and attention to detail. But all that aside, he also makes songs feel like they were written yesterday. That’s not straightforward at all. He lifted the whole project up and is wonderful human to boot.”