Joseph Coward is set to release his eagerly awaited debut album this autumn.

‘The World Famous Joseph Coward’, self produced in London with Phillip Brillo, is released on CD, vinyl and download and features ten tracks, including a Clash Magazine Track Of The Day – ‘Sarah, Plain & Tall’ – and the singles ‘Idle Boy’, ‘Thin’ and ‘Lucky To Have Me’.

An artist with the wistful-narcotised style and pugnacious confessional delivery of an earlier generation of British romantics, the unschooled, unbridled, uncompromising lyricism of Ian McCulloch, Morrissey and Billy Bragg courses through Joseph Coward’s songs.

After leaving his Brentwood, Essex school at sixteen, Coward left home and scraped together an existence in London, where he published a fanzine and made himself a fixture in the music scene.

“Atmospheric and melodic post-punk… sweeping melodrama… sweetly intimate… Serious in intent and sharp in execution” – Q

“Startling honesty” – Wonderland Magazine

“His take on atmospheric post punk casts chiming shadows through an Echo & The Bunnymen shaped prism of multilayered guitars and low-fi loops to impressive effect.” – Clashmusic.com

“Romantic and timeless… compelling and brilliant” – Huh. Magazine

The vinyl format includes a copy of the album on CD.