page_title: Diviner (album)
section_title: Release and promotion
hierarchical_section_title: Diviner (album) / Release and promotion
caption_attribution_description: English: Dreamtime at Fingal
context_page_description: Diviner is the debut studio album by English musician Hayden Thorpe. It was released on 24 May 2019 by Domino Recording Company.
  Diviner is the first solo work from Thorpe since the dissolution of Wild Beasts, a band which Thorpe was a member of for over fifteen years. The album was written by Hayden Thorpe in Los Angeles, London, Kendal, and Cornwall. It was recorded over the course of 2018 with producer and close friend Leo Abrahams at Thorpe's London flat and at Abrahams' studio in Cornwall. The album's musical style is more stripped down compared to Thorpe's previous work. It was preceded by the singles "Diviner", "Love Crimes", and "Earthly Needs".
context_section_description: "Diviner" was released as the album's first single with an accompanying music video on 21 February 2019. The music video for "Diviner" was directed by Crowns & Owls and features Thorpe playing on an old piano in the forest at night. "Love Crimes" was released as the album's second single on 9 April 2019 with an accompanying music video and the announcement of Diviner. The music video for "Love Crimes" was directed by Alexandra Liveris and shot on Dreamtime Beach in northern New South Wales, Australia in response to a vision Thorpe received from a psychic. The psychic told Thorpe, whose mother is Australian and descended from convicts in Australia, that Australia would feature in his future. "Earthly Needs" was released as the album's third single on 20 May 2019.
  Between 14 May 2019 and 6 June 2019, Thorpe performed five intimate shows entitled The Piano Room Sessions, performed solely on piano. Performed in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles, the venues were revealed to ticket winners only 48 hours beforehand. Thorpe has said that he does not plan to perform Wild Beasts songs in the future, explaining, "Those songs exist, and if they matter to anyone then you can't take that away from anyone. That's the beauty of music. That it can't erode, they won't decay. But certainly, from my point of view, it wouldn't be a nourishing thing to do."
caption: Thorpe was granted permission to shoot the music video for "Love Crimes" at Dreamtime Beach in New South Wales, Australia.
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