Humanist Release Deluxe Edition of “On The Edge of a Lost and Lonely World” with New Track “Everybody Needs” ft. Emily Breeze

Just over a year since the release of the acclaimed album On The Edge Of A Lost And Lonely World, today Humanist announce the release of an expanded deluxe edition of the LP – out today via Bella Union.

This definitive edition expands upon the original album with 14 new tracks, including newly commissioned remixes, previously unheard collaborations, additional recordings and exclusive material, further illuminating the creative scope of Rob Marshall’s collaborative project. To accompany today’s announcement Humanist have shared lead track “Everybody Needs” featuring vocalist Emily Breeze. Listen below.

A strange spark, almost like a telepathic collision, brought Rob Marshall and Emily Breeze together, and from it came “Everybody Knows”. The track feels instinctive, charged with a sudden surge of energy, as if it had been waiting to happen all along. Emily Breeze, the Bristol songwriter known for her glamorous noir-pop, sharp wit and unflinching lyricism, has been hailed as “a searingly brilliant frontwoman” (Louder Than War). Her work straddles post-punk grit, cinematic balladry and torch-song drama. Here, she lends her singular voice giving the track its bite and its beauty. This collaboration is a testament to Humanist’s expanding universe – Rob drawing deeper from the well, inviting another powerful presence into the swirl, and emerging with something that bursts outward, made of scars and hope.

Rob Marshall is the beating heart of Humanist, a project where poetry bleeds into noise and scars become songs. A guitarist, composer and producer forged in the shadows of post-industrial Teesside, Marshall learned early that beauty often grows in the cracks. He has carried those wounds and worked them into something vast and cinematic – music that feels like it’s been pulled, raw, from a deep well.

Best known as the guitarist in Exit Calm and as a longtime collaborator with Mark Lanegan, Marshall co-wrote and produced some of Lanegan’s most celebrated late works (Gargoyle, Somebody’s Knocking). Lanegan once said of him: “Working with Rob was one of the best decisions l’ve ever made in my career. His creativity knows no bounds, and he always pushed me to go further, to dig deeper.”

With Humanist, Marshall built a sonic world of his own – one that has drawn in Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode), Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian), James Allan (Glasvegas), Peter Hayes (BRMC), Ed Harcourt, and others. Humanist is not just collaboration – it is confession. You can hear the lived years in Marshall’s work: the ache, the fight, the survival. The second album rises and falls like weather, songs dissolving into tone-poems that hang suspended on a single viola note before collapsing into elegy. It is the sound of a man digging deeper, refusing to turn away, offering up the truth however it comes – delicate or brutal.

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Rob Marshall is no careerist chasing trends. He is a romantic, a survivor, a craftsman of storms and silences. His music stands as both wound and balm, scar and song – a reminder that sometimes the most broken things are the most beautiful. Bukowski once said we write because we must. For Rob Marshall, Humanist is exactly that necessity: a howl, a hymn, and a reminder that the broken places are where the light gets in.

 On The Edge Of A Lost And Lonely World deluxe edition artwork and tracklist:

Original album tracklist:

1. The Beginning (My God) ft Carl Hancock Rux
2. Happy ft Ed Harcourt
3. Too Many Rivals ft Tim Smith
4. The Immortal ft Ed Harcourt
5. This Holding Pattern ft James Cox
6. Brother ft Dave Gahan
7. Born To Be ft Peter Hayes
8. Keep Me Safe ft Rachel Fannan
9. Dark Side Of Your Window ft James Allan
10. Love You More ft Isobel Campbell
11. Lonely Night ft Madman Butterfly
12. The Presence Of Haman ft Madman Butterfly
13. The End ft Madman Butterfly

Deluxe edition bonus material tracklist:

1. Keep Me Safe ft. Rachel Fannan (Dave Francolini Remix)
2. Everybody Needs ft. Emily Breeze
3. Love You More ft. Isobell Campbell (Wendy Rae Fowler Remix)
4. Parade ft. Peter Hayes (Daybreakers Lo-Fi Remix)
5. Dark Of Your Window ft. James Allan (Glasvegas Remix)
6. Oceans Above the Clouds (Instrumental)
7. You Better Run ft. John Robb
8. Every War Is The Same (Demo with Vox Map)
9. Alone For You
10. Parade (Outtake) ft. Peter Hayes
11. Regretfully Yours
12. Looking From The Inside
13. Where The Moon Hides
14. With Eyes Closed (for John)