Last week Alexander Painter released his debut solo album Civil Twilight, and last night he played a launch gig for it at the Rosehill, accompanied by a few friends. Civil Twilight is a subtly complex album – primarily chamber pop, played on guitar, piano, saxophone and a cello built by Alexander himself – it also branches out into jazz and a whole range of other influences. In the blurb on bandcamp it mentions that it was influenced by Dante as well as Bill and Ted’s Bogus journey, which sums it up quite nicely.

For the launch gig, Alexander played a headline set running through most of the album (as well as non-album single Take Courage which came out earlier this year). He also supported himself in the opening set, where he improvised with some of his regular collaborators. Second support from ex-East India Youth main man William Doyle, who also accompanied for most of the headline set too.

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Civil Twilight by Alexander Painter is out now: