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THE SCRIPT #3
(Phonogenic/Sony)
Leading the campaign for The Script’s forthcoming album - which is flying high on the pre-order charts already - the band release the single Hall of Fame, featuring frontman Danny O'Donoghue’s fellow judge from The Voice UK,
will.i.am. The track, penned by the Dublin three-piece - consisting of O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power - was co-produced with Irish producer Jimbo Barry and mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Coldplay, Muse, Oasis, No Doubt). It will be released on September 2, preceding the album by a week. The Script have sold four million LPs worldwide via their two No.1 albums - the self-titled 2008 debut and 2010’s double-platinum selling Science & Faith. They’ve also clocked up an impressive 100 million YouTube views,
September 10 INCOMING ALBUMS
DAVE STEWART The Ringmaster General (Surfdog/Membran) Singer, songwriter and guitarist Dave Stewart will perform four UK shows this year -
commencing on September 3 with a special homecoming gig at the Empire Theatre in his hometown, Sunderland - to coincide with the release of this album. Other shows will take place in Birmingham, Manchester and London. On The Ringmaster General,
Eurythmics man Stewart mixes rock, blues, country, R&B and psychedelia, and the collection of songs promise to be full of musical and lyrical ‘twists and turns’, taking the listener through stories of “love, discovery, and ….” The album was recorded and mixed by John McBride in Nashville and features 13 new songs, including duets with Alison Krauss, Diane Birch and Joss Stone, as well as a duet sung with and co-written by Jessie Baylin. The guitar skills of Orianthi also feature.
SEPTEMBER 3
TIM BURGESS Oh No I Love You (O Genesis Recordings) Following the success of the publication of his autobiography earlier
this year, Tim Burgess releases his new solo album Oh No I Love You. The record was produced by Mark
Nevers in Nashville. It features members of Lambchop, Clem Snide and My Morning Jacket and sounds including strings, brass and a gospel choir across ten new songs.
It will be released as a download bundle and also on standard CD, limited edition CD (featuring additional bonus tracks) and super limited edition vinyl. The release is followed by a UK tour,
starting in Aberdeen on October 18, taking in The Union Chapel in London on October 24 before finishing in Belfast on 27. The tour will feature Burgess’s five- piece band, including The Charlatans guitarist Mark Collins.
EMILIA MITIKU I Belong To You (Warner) Newly-signed to Warner, Emilia Mitiku previewed her upcoming album I Belong To You with a
series of intimate acoustic performances in London throughout July. Mitiku, the daughter of a Swedish
mother and the revered Ethiopian jazz singer, Teshome Mitiku, has returned to the sounds of her childhood for this record that has been created with producers Hansson and Vaughn. On the album, original recordings sit alongside Mitiku’s interpretations of Ella Fitzgerald’s Dream A Little Dream and Doris Day’s Again, as well as her own recent single, soulful jazz song Lost Inside. In 1999, as Emilia Rydberg, Mitiku
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had a worldwide hit with single Big Big World which sold more than 4.5 million copies. She will always be grateful, she says, for the success the song propelled her towards.
1.5 million Twitter followers and 3.6 million Facebook followers. This is in addition to two BRIT nominations and sell-out arena shows, including the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
FAULKNER
Brick By Brick (Ugly Truth/RCA)
NEWTON
September 9
Brit-nominated, acoustic guitar virtuoso Newton Faulkner is set to release new single Brick By Brick, taken from his recent number one album Write It On Your Skin. Sam Farrar (Phantom Planet) helped write and produce the track in his garage along with Toby Faulkner, Newton’s brother. Peer-published Falkner has sold more than 1 million albums in the UK alone. His debut, Hand Built By Robots, spent over 10 months inside the Top 40 Album Charts and become one of the Top 20 biggest-selling UK digital albums of all time.
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THE XX Angels (XL Recordings) I’ve been addicted to The XX since the release of
their debut album, so I was excited to find they had a new track Angels out - a precursor to their new LP Coexist, which will be released on September 10. Considering how great The XX are and the astounding success of their self- titled debut, Angels had a lot to live up to. Among other successes, The XX
won the Mercury Music Prize in 2010 and topped several prestigious
NOVEMBER TBC
annual Best Of lists. Despite being nominated for three Brit Awards in 2011, they left with none - so at least they have left some scope for new heights of success. Angels seems a promising sign of the album to come. Although some have criticised it with the old addage of ‘a lack of progression’, I don’t see this as a bad thing because The XX do what they do so brilliantly. Distinctive and
simple, Angels’ melody, with such emotional and beautifully sung lyrics, left traces of goosebumps the first time I
heard it. This is definitely a keeper for my summer playlist and I can’t wait to hear what the rest of the album has to offer.
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