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<a href="spotify:artist:5LmaYq7bvBX7xs4YI1GjoN" data-name="Findlay Napier">Findlay Napier</a>’s latest album Outsider was released on 4 April 2025, produced by longtime collaborator <a href="spotify:artist:79bvE4uUR2P7AqHm2SmR8e" data-name="Boo Hewerdine">Boo Hewerdine</a>. Fans will be pleased to know a deluxe sixteen-track version is available alongside the 154-page Outsider coffee table book, packed with behind-the-scenes photos, in-depth looks at each track, biographies of the contributors, and witty essays on songwriting, recording, and what it means to be an outsider.
From the Main Stage at Cambridge Folk Festival with folk rock supergroup <a href="spotify:artist:3YCg3tuSPcaO9olAnFY4yv" data-name="The Magpie Arc">The Magpie Arc</a> to acoustic gigs in pub back rooms, Napier is regarded as one of the UK’s finest performers. That reputation was cemented in 2018 when he became the first solo act nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards. Tirelessly creative, he has toured and released music since the early 2000s—first with groundbreaking trad folk band <a href="spotify:artist:4lMZwOuCRrqezlQU67a609" data-name="Back of The Moon">Back of The Moon</a>, then with Nu-Folk pioneers <a href="spotify:artist:5RatQGEtQSNPY9EQe7JZSP" data-name="Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers">Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers</a>, and now as a solo artist guided by legendary songwriter Boo Hewerdine.
His breakthrough solo album VIP: Very Interesting Persons, produced by Hewerdine, was number 2 in The Telegraph’s top folk albums of 2014. He followed it with 2017’s Glasgow, which led to high-profile gigs including five tours opening for <a href="spotify:artist:0T3UHijKhYdE2O6r06URan" data-name="Eddi Reader">Eddi Reader</a>. In 2021, he released It Is What It Is with producer/multi-instrumentalist <a href="spotify:artist:5Cc7yrKUhaazgZPne2kMSl" data-name="Angus Lyon">Angus Lyon</a>, which KLOF called “a captivating, indispensable work; it is what it is, and what it is, is magnificent.”
From the Main Stage at Cambridge Folk Festival with folk rock supergroup <a href="spotify:artist:3YCg3tuSPcaO9olAnFY4yv" data-name="The Magpie Arc">The Magpie Arc</a> to acoustic gigs in pub back rooms, Napier is regarded as one of the UK’s finest performers. That reputation was cemented in 2018 when he became the first solo act nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards. Tirelessly creative, he has toured and released music since the early 2000s—first with groundbreaking trad folk band <a href="spotify:artist:4lMZwOuCRrqezlQU67a609" data-name="Back of The Moon">Back of The Moon</a>, then with Nu-Folk pioneers <a href="spotify:artist:5RatQGEtQSNPY9EQe7JZSP" data-name="Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers">Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers</a>, and now as a solo artist guided by legendary songwriter Boo Hewerdine.
His breakthrough solo album VIP: Very Interesting Persons, produced by Hewerdine, was number 2 in The Telegraph’s top folk albums of 2014. He followed it with 2017’s Glasgow, which led to high-profile gigs including five tours opening for <a href="spotify:artist:0T3UHijKhYdE2O6r06URan" data-name="Eddi Reader">Eddi Reader</a>. In 2021, he released It Is What It Is with producer/multi-instrumentalist <a href="spotify:artist:5Cc7yrKUhaazgZPne2kMSl" data-name="Angus Lyon">Angus Lyon</a>, which KLOF called “a captivating, indispensable work; it is what it is, and what it is, is magnificent.”
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