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WILLIE NELSON Heroes
(Legacy Recordings)
‘America's legendary outlaw country music avatar’ and seven-time Grammy Award winner Willie Nelson showcases a collection of new tracks, modern music covers and country classics on his latest offering. New song Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die features
rapper Snoop Dogg and country music stars Kris Kristofferson and Jamey Johnson. Other new songs include Hero and Come On Back Jesus which features Nelson’s sons Micah and Lukas, who penned further new tracks on the record. Other guest artists include Merle Haggard, Billy Joe Shaver and Sheryl Crow. Also included is a cover of Coldplay’s The Scientist (which
May 14 INCOMING ALBUMS
SADE Bring Me Home - Live 2011 (RCA) Sade will release this live DVD/CD and Blu-ray of their 106-date world tour in
May. The iconic band returned to the stage after an 18-year hiatus, during which they played to over 800,000 people. During the American leg of
the tour, acclaimed British director Sophie Muller captured the band’s two-hour 22-song concert, featuring hits from a 28-year repertoire. In addition to the concert, the elusive Sade Adu grants fans rare glimpses from behind-the-scenes. The Grammy-winning band
have had six Billboard top 10 studio albums and sold more than 55 million albums worldwide to date.
KARIN PARK Highwire Poetry (State Of The Eye)
Swedish electro-goth princess’ Karin Park had the audience
transfixed during her January performance at Music Week’s Breakout event, and her live sets have been described as ‘undeniably electrifying’. Following the release of her
UK debut last September, Karin is a new name to many outside of Scandinavia, while at home she has already picked up two Norwegian ‘Grammys’. Her sound encompasses a
blend of moody electronica, dark yet hooky choruses and a spell-binding vocal. Karin will perform in Leeds
MAY 21
on May 5 and support the Ting Tings in Berlin on May 27. MAY 28
REN HARVIEU Through the Night (Kid Gloves/Island)
Twenty-one- year old ‘daughter of the north west’ Ren Harvieu was
named in the BBC Sound of 2012 poll and has been described as having an old soul, with her voice being compared to the likes of Dusty Springfield and Peggy Lee. Her debut album Through the
Night boasts production from Howard Elliott Payne, Dave McCabe, Jimmy Hogarth and backing vocals from Ed Harcourt. She counts Nas and Johnny
Marr amongst her famous fans and has garnered an abundance of positive acclaim from the music press. APRIL 23
recently debuted as the soundtrack to a commercial during the US Super Bowl), plus a version of Pearl Jam’s Just Breathe. Other covers are sourced from the 30s and 40s. The Texas singer-songwriter brought pop and country together
and is an icon of the latter genre with a six-decade career and a catalogue of more than 200 albums to his credit.
Silenced By The Night (Island)
KEANE
Keane are now a four-piece with the addition of brand new member, bass player Jesse Quin. The British multi-million
selling band chose this as the lead single from their fourth album, Strangeland - which they are calling their most personal and honest record yet. Silenced By The Night has
been described as an ‘emotionally driven anthem, boasting a hook so huge you could raise the Titanic with it’. Keane recently performed
April 30
the worldwide premiere of the single on Jimmy Kimmel’s show in LA. Four years have passed
since their last album Perfect Symmetry became their third consecutive platinum-selling, number one studio album.
STAFF PICK: TOM PAKINKIS, STAFF WRITER
KILL IT KID Feet Fall Heavy (One Little Indian) If rock is dead then the blues is a fossil trapped
in tree sap waiting to be peered at in a primary school science class. I don’t believe either
notion, especially when I come across as pure a blues rock album as Kill It Kid’s Feet Fall Heavy. There’s a feeling that
lead guitarist/vocalist Chris Turpin is a legend in the making, with a mastery of his instrument that sees all kinds of subtle expressions leap from the dirty but impeccably crafted blues barrage. The opening and closing lick on
Heart Rested With You, for example, bounces and screeches from side-to- side in a fascinating way. One for the ‘Most Iconic…’ lists in 20 years or so, the reaction it got at KIK’s recent
London gig at The Borderline would make passers by think Clapton had just ripped into Layla or Slash into Sweet Child Of Mine. Then there’s his voice: It sounds
aged, strained and altogether strange at first but entirely unique, full of feeling and perfectly balanced with fellow fronter Steph Ward, who runs through angelic highs and smoky lows with ease. Pray On Me is the album’s best vocal duet while a song like Dark
Hearted Songbird is Steph’s show entirely. If the likes of Jack White or The
Black Keys ever feel they need a hand, there’s no reason why Kill It Kid can’t be the next band credited with keeping the blues alive or, rather, proving that it never went away assuming you know where to look. OUT NOW
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