''Odludek'' is the debut solo album by

Jimi Goodwin Jamie Francis Alexander Goodwin (born 28 May 1970) is a British musician who is the bassist, vocalist and guitarist for Doves. Before their incarnation as Doves, the three members were in a house music group, Sub Sub. Goodwin is best known as ...

, released on

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on 24 March 2014. The album follows a few years after his band,

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, announced they were taking an "indefinite hiatus." The word ''odludek'' is a Polish word, meaning "pilgrim" or "loner." Goodwin wrote and played almost everything on ''Odludek'' himself, with only a handful of guest musicians, including

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frontman

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and former

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member Fredrik Bjorling, and the album was recorded and co-produced with Dan Austin at a studio in the

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across 18 months. Goodwin said, "Initially I wanted to have loads of guests on it. Maybe I wasn't trusting my own instincts because I'd collaborated in a band for such a long time, but that idea soon went out the window. Very quickly I decided I wanted to get my

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head on and play everything. I became very protective of it. There was no-one steering me. I made it myself and paid for it myself, and that was very free and liberating." ''Odludek'' spawned four promotional-only singles; second single "Live Like a River" was given a commercial release on 12" vinyl, featuring exclusive remixes of the title track and album opener "Terracotta Warrior". A dub remix of "Didsbury Girl" was released as a vinyl single for

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2015.

Track listing

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References

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