Rough Trade Rough Trade

Close
Close View Full Product

Item added to your cart.

Checkout
Previous
Next
Close
American Interior (2025 Remastered Bonus Edition)
ReleaseProduct
American Interior (2025 Remastered Bonus Edition)
Artist
Display Artist
Gruff Rhys
Label
Rough Trade
Catalogue Number
RT0537
Release Date
May 16, 2025

  • Deluxe 3LP + Signed Pearlescent Print:

    Pre-order $54.99

    • American Interior (2025 Remastered Bonus Edition) Vinyl, 3×LP, Limited Edition

    • American Interior - Pearlescent Paper Signed Print

    • + WAV / FLAC
    • pressed on Apricot, Purple and Light Rose Colour Vinyl 3LP
    • Pearlescent Silver Paper art print signed by Gruff Rhys
    • WAV/FLAC DL

    Available: May 16, 2025

    Add to Cart

  • Download

    Pre-order $9.99
    Select format

    320 kbps, LAME-encoded

    Available: May 16, 2025

    Add to Cart

The CD and 2LP editions feature 4 extra tracks. The 3LP Deluxe version includes 5 extra tracks and is pressed on Apricot/Purple/Rosé Vinyl in a triple gatefold sleeve.

"Revisiting American Interior 11 years later feels very prescient.

In following the unusual story of explorer John Evans (1770-1799) it becomes clear that faked narratives can have profound and unpredictable consequences in real life.

His barely believable journey of verification in searching through continental scale wilderness for a [fictitious] Welsh speaking tribe believed to be living on the Great Plains of North America (an ancient folk tale perpetuated by the Elizabethan court following the subjugation of Wales, to make colonial claims on behalf of the British on the Americas) had a dramatic political effect on the fledgling USA and a devastating impact on himself and some of those who helped him on his way.

I wrote an album of songs inspired by his life; American Interior, which also served as a soundtrack to a documentary film based on a book that detailed his journey, intertwined with my own investigative concert tour, all three of which I worked on simultaneously during a 2-year fever 2012-14.

By far the most ambitious undertaking I’ve ever attempted. Living with one foot in the 18th century, wearing the same clothes (for cinematic continuity) for that entire period, left me pretty exhausted. (Imagine a cold extra from The Revenant movie).

It took me a while to process the whole experience and its lessons and feel I owe it to my former self to take these songs back on the road for a couple of months and re-tell the story for a new decade. To celebrate it further Rough Trade will reissue a remastered version of the album with previously unreleased tracks." - Gruff Rhys

Gruff Rhys on Spotify
Listen on Apple Music

Digital Tracklist

Disc 1

  1. 1 American Exterior (2025 Remaster) 0:28 Buy

    American Exterior (2025 Remaster)

  2. 2 American Interior (2025 Remaster) 3:15 Buy

    American Interior (2025 Remaster)

  3. 3 The Whether (Or Not) (2025 Remaster) 3:36 Buy

    The Whether (Or Not) (2025 Remaster)

  4. 4 The Last Conquistador (2025 Remaster) 4:02 Buy

    The Last Conquistador (2025 Remaster)

  5. 5 Lost Tribes (2025 Remaster) 3:02 Buy

    Lost Tribes (2025 Remaster)

  6. 6 Liberty (Is Where We'll Be) (2025 Remaster) 4:54 Buy

    Liberty (Is Where We'll Be) (2025 Remaster)

  7. 7 Allweddellau Allweddol (2025 Remaster) 4:01 Buy

    Allweddellau Allweddol (2025 Remaster)

  8. 8 Walk into the Wilderness (2025 Remaster) 3:45 Buy

    Walk into the Wilderness (2025 Remaster)

  9. 9 Sugar Insides (2025 Remaster) 3:32 Buy

    Sugar Insides (2025 Remaster)

  10. 10 100 Unread Messages (2025 Remaster) 4:31 Buy

    100 Unread Messages (2025 Remaster)

Disc 2

  1. 1 I Grombil Cyfandir Pell (2025 Remaster) 3:23 Buy

    I Grombil Cyfandir Pell (2025 Remaster)

  2. 2 Ar Goll (2025 Remaster) 3:03 Buy

    Ar Goll (2025 Remaster)

  3. 3 Y Madogwys Neu Angau (2025 Remaster) 4:02 Buy

    Y Madogwys Neu Angau (2025 Remaster)

  4. 4 Power Point Presentation (2025 Remaster) 2:32 Buy

    Power Point Presentation (2025 Remaster)

  5. 5 American Exterior (Extended Version For Two Synthesizers - 2025 Remaster) 7:17 Buy

    American Exterior (Extended Version For Two Synthesizers - 2025 Remaster)

Show All Tracks 23

Gruff Rhys

View More
Close
Previous Play Pause Next
features.playlist.label Close
Loading:
--:-- --:--

Privacy Settings

This site uses cookies. For information, please read our cookies policy. Cookies Policy

Allow All
Manage Consent Preferences