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TRACK OF THE WEEK
ELLIE GOULDING Halycon (Polydor)
Halcyon is the follow-up to Ellie Goulding’s hugely successful debut album Lights, which was released in 2010 and has gone on to sell 1.5 million copies and generate five million single sales worldwide. The Hereford-born singer/songwriter first came to prominence
when she topped the BBC Sound of 2010 Poll and was simultaneously awarded the Brits Critics Choice Award. She is the only artist other than Adele to have received both accolades. On release Lights went straight to number one in the Official UK
Album Charts. It then became one of the biggest and fastest-selling debut albums of 2010, topping triple-platinum status in the UK with sales of over 850,000 to date. In the US Lights has sold over 2.5 million copies and reached the
October 8 INCOMING ALBUMS
PAUL COOK & THE CHRONICLES Volume One (Grandpa Stan Records) The new full- length from Paul Cook & The Chronicles recently saw a
limited release through Rough Trade as its Album of the Week. The lyrical content is drawn largely from the experiences of London-born songwriter Cook over the course of the past year with the instrumentals influenced by classic country and folk rock. Paul Cook & The Chronicles made
their live and recorded debut in 2011 with radio support for first single Six Places coming from the likes of BBC Radio 2, 6 Music and XFM. Volume One was produced and mixed
by Julian Simmons (Guillemots, Midlake, The Shutes) with Paul Cook, and represents the first of a four-volume series of full-length releases over the course of the next 18 months. AUGUST 27
RONAN KEATING Fires (Polydor) His first collection of original compositions in six years, Ronan Keating returns with brand new
studio album Fires, including the lead single of the same name. The album features some of the most
popular songs of Keating’s career, teaming rousing guitar anthems with heart-rending ballads that showcase his voice. On the record Keating is reunited with songwriting partners who penned some of his biggest hits including Life Is A Rollercoaster and Lovin Each Day. Since his No.1 debut solo album, Keating has sold over 25 million records worldwide as a solo artist and has notched up multiple No.1 albums and singles. Keating continues to be a judge on the Australian X Factor and will embark on a 14-night UK tour in January and February 2013.
ANJA MCCLOSKEY An Estimation (Sotones Records) German-American artist Anja McCloskey is soon to release her debut solo album, a 12-track collection of
bold arrangements, punchy instrumentals and haunting vocals. Built around McCloskey’s trademark accordion, An Estimation embodies elements of folk, classical, alternative and traditional music with track A Kiss already having garnered the accolade as a former Q Track of the Day. McCloskey is already a relative
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veteran of the music scene, having gained a experience playing with performance orchestra The Irrepressibles and folk-rockers Haunted Stereo (also on Sotones), with whom she composed Cross the Sea - another Q Magazine Track of the Day, before going solo in 2010. She was crowned winner of The Musicians Benevolent Fund’s 2012 Emerging Excellence Award.
Top 5 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Top 40 charts. Goulding also supported Katy Perry Tour and performed on a number of high profile American TV shows including The Late Show with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live. All the tracks on Halcyon were written and co-produced by Ellie Goulding and were recorded with producer Jim Elliot.
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SAM AND THE WOMP
Bom Bom (One More Tune/Stiff Records)
The rambunctious sounds of Sam and the Womp have caused a stir in recent months following sets at the likes of Bestival, Big Chill, Glastonbury and Lovebox, as well as substantial airplay and famous fans such as Rizzle Kicks. Bom Bom is a certified party
anthem - a crazy cocktail of ska, dubstep, brass ‘n’ bass. The track, number one on
Shazam’s tag chart, is gaining further momentum through its use as the soundtrack the new international Southern Comfort TV advertising campaign. Sam and the Womp
comprises core trio synth man Aaron Audio, Sam on the trumpet and vocalist Lady Oo and for live shows, they are bolstered by a rotating squad of six horn players.
STAFF PICK: TIM INGHAM, EDITOR
YOU AM I Hourly, Daily (Warner Music) How disheartening to read that since Hourly, Daily’s
release in 1996, You Am I lead singer Tim Rogers has completely dismissed it. “I was probably listening to too many Kinks records,” goes his blasé retrospective review. “I’m glad people liked the record. I don’t listen to it.” Well he’s wrong on
two counts: (i) It is not humanly possible to listen to “too many Kinks records” - and judging by Rogers’ own Wiggins sideburns, he’s fully aware of that fact; and (ii) Not thatmany people liked the record. Okay, they did in Australia. Since
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discovering You Am I’s moddish melodic gem from the mid-’90s, I’ve investigated
exactly why I was being crash-marketed Menswe@r and Gay Dad at the time (with some success) - but never stumbled across Hourly, Daily. In Oz, it debuted at No.1 on the ARIA
chart and won a few awards. Over here, amid increasingly hollow Britpop jingoism, it was ignored; regarded by the music press as little but a sonic comfort blanket for tinny-supping homesick Antipodeans. Ironic, then, that
Hourly, Daily cherry picks from the very best of the British
Beatles/Who/Jam/Kinks lineage - spicing it up with a never-snarky, affably wry potrait of suburban Australian life. This is a joyous, confident album
stuffed with fuzzy strutters, 12-string anthems and Eleanor Rigby laments. In other words, a lot better than Jet.
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