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The Evolution Of Man (Ministry Of Sound)
This year Example sold out his first 14-date UK arena tour. Last year he sat at the top of the UK charts with a No.1 certified platinum album Playing in the Shadows and had two consecutive No.1 singles with Changed the Way You Kiss Me and Stay Awake. Now he’s back and ready to unleash his third studio album - but
not before a massive comeback single. Produced by DJ Dirty South, Say Nothing (released September 16) is an anthemic stadium track, boasting a hooky guitar riff and signature catchy chorus. It also features the guitar skills of Graham Coxon - one of four songs on The Evolution Of Man on which the Blur man performs. Example has announced a new headline arena tour for 2013 that
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will take in 16 dates, kicking off at Bournemouth’s BIC on February 11 and ending at Manchester’s MEN on March 1. This summer he played 12 shows in Ibiza and numerous festivals
across the UK and Europe including T in the Park, Wireless, Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend, Benicassim and most recently V Festival’s main stage next to Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and The Stone Roses.
INCOMING ALBUMS
PATRICK WOLF Sundark and Riverlight (Bloody Chamber Music/Essential Music) Patrick Wolf is set to release acoustic double album
Sundark and Riverlight to celebrate 10 years of him making music. It consists of re-recordings, new
arrangements and updated lyrics of Wolf’s songs from his last five albums. Totally self produced and arranged,
the songs are grouped into two stories, Sundark – an album of more his more solitary darker material, and Riverlight songs of hope and relationship. Of the record, Wolf said: “This project
started when I realised I had reached a 10 year jubilee as a recording artist. My first EP came out when I was 19 and in the 10 years hence, my voice has grown with me. This is my first totally acoustic album and so I made certain that we were working with analogue tape and recording equipment.”
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING Arc (RCA Victor) Everything Everything return with the follow up album to their 2010 debut, Man Alive.
Recorded at Angelic Studios and
RAK, the band returned to Man Alive producer David Kosten to work on the new record, the campaign of which kicks off with the release of lead single Cough Cough on October 14. Their debut album, Man Alive, won
the South Bank Times Breakthrough Award and was shortlisted for The Guardian’s First Album Award in early 2011. The band’s songwriting skills were also recognised at the 2011 Ivor Novello’s, followed by a Mercury Prize nomination in the same year. After a couple of low-key warm up
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dates in September and one exclusive festival appearance, Everything Everything will embark on a headline UK tour in October.
BARBRA STREISAND Release Me (Columbia) Barbra Streisand’s private music vault holds all the master tapes she’s recorded for five decades. Now,
she’s sharing 11 previously unreleased songs, spanning a cross-section of her career from 1963 to the present in the collection titled Release Me. In her career, Streisand has released
more than 60 albums. Many of the sessions for these albums yielded extra recordings, which weren’t included on the records they were intended for. In the past year she painstakingly sifted through the recordings to select those on this LP. Reflecting on the album, Streisand
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said: “The thing I’m happiest about is that I still have great affection for all these songs. They appealed to me at the time…and still do. Listening now, I actually think to myself, ‘The girl wasn’t half bad.’”
October 7 STAFF PICK: TIM INGHAM, EDITOR
JESSIE WARE Devotion (Island) Over-hyped, over- coiffed and over here. I’d heard so many on-
trend recommendations for Jessie Ware’s beguiling debut album that I was childishly willing its first play to infuriate me. I didn’t pass up any chance for constructed disappointment, either - braying in snark at the title track’s wubby XL- lite bass drones and snarling at Running’s I- Heart-The-’80s lo-fi synths. Even the album sleeve - dipped in greyscale plastic suaveness and cold cut capitals - left me chilly in its grasping for cool. But then: Running’s duelling languid
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geetars, the jazz-funk ?uestlove-esque thumps of No To Love, the dread-laced muffles submerged under the pounding Taking In Water... it all began to expose a
charming brew of unexpected composure. Heart warmed, the power of Jessie’s
pipes started unravelling in my ear tubes: unlike namesake (and fellow Island signing) Ms. J, there are no tonsil acrobatics or controlled screeches designed to pierce through the Heart FM mulch here - just smoky, sultry, sincere tones naturally crafted to entice, rather than pulverise. Wildest Moments in particular is a slow-burn monster. As for fears of
Devotion being a
spiritless exercise in hipster box-ticking, you’ll hear more Lisa Stansfield or Soul II Soul than Passion Pit in its 11 tracks, deftly swirled with modern production flair that propels patient waves of suspense. In other words, it’s early ‘90s sex
music made by a mate of SBTRKT. How was that ever not going to work? OUT NOW
Don’t You Worry Child feat. John Martin
(Virgin/EMI)
Dance music DJ trio Swedish House Mafia bid farewell to the UK with their biggest headline show to date at the Milton Keynes Bowl. To celebrate this landmark
event, the group debuted new track Don’t You Worry Child to the audience of 65,000 ravers. It’s a euphoric track with the
Swedes’ signature drops and hooks, and features vocals from John Martin. Its catchiness recently got the approval of a legend, via an exclusive play on Pete Tong’s Radio 1 show. After exploding on to the
scene in 2010, the Swedes released hit singles taken from double gold-selling compilation album Until One, which is still in the top 50 chart nearly two years after its release.
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