40 Music Week 07.12.12
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TRACK OF THE WEEK
£1 Fish Man, aka Muhammad Shahid Nazir will soon release his infamous track, The £1 Fish Song. Nazir moved to London's East
The £1 Fish Song (One More Tune/Warner)
£1 FISH MAN
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING Arc
(RCA/Victor)
Everything Everything announced details of their new album Arc when the lead single Cough Cough was released. That went on to gain support across Radio 1 and 2, XFM, 6 Music and Absolute, resulting in their first entry into the UK Top 40, and the band enjoyed a completely sold-out run of dates around the UK in anticipation of the LP’s release. The Manchester quartet recently toured Europe supporting Muse
and will release their second single Kemosabe on January 6 which has been described as “retaining the digi-Timbaland groove that marked out some of [first album] Man Alive’s best moments, but adds buzzsaw riffs and a sunshine chorus”. A week later Arc, recorded at Angelic Studios and RAK with Man
January 14 INCOMING ALBUMS
FRIGHTENED RABBIT Pedestrian Verse (Atlantic) Scottish quintet Frightened Rabbit will release their eagerly-awaited fourth studio album
Pedestrian Verse in February. It was recorded at the famed Monnow
Valley Studio in Rockfield, South Wales, with producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, David Byrne, Grace Jones). The band announced a run of
headline UK dates for February. Their biggest UK tour to date kicks off at Norwich’s Waterfront on Feb 8, taking in Birmingham, Portsmouth, Brighton, London, Cambridge, Bristol, Exeter, Stoke, Leeds, Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Gateshead, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, before finishing up at Glasgow’s Barrowlands on Feb 28. The band released their State Hospital
EP in September, following their last album, 2010’s The Winter Of Mixed Drinks on FatCat Records.
FEBRUARY 4
CHARLIE WINSTON Running Still (Real World Records) Charlie Winston’s previous album Hobo went to No.1 in the charts in
France where he is now a household name. It also had considerable success throughout Europe and in Canada – and the title track was in Q’s Top 50 tracks of the year. Winston was signed by Peter Gabriel
to Real World Records and his latest LP offering, Running Still, was created with Tony Berg (Aimee Mann, Michael Penn). His band The Oxymorons feature for the first time – with a drummer, bassist and harmonica player and Winston on piano and guitar. Track Speak To Me was recently
released on video and is slated as a standout track on the album – with no instrumentation, the song is comprised entirely of vocal sounds.
SKYLAR GREY Don’t Look Down (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope) Eminem has signed on as executive producer of the debut album from five-time
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Skylar Grey – the first signing to Alex Da Kid’s KIDinaKORNER imprint label. The first single from the LP, C’mon Let
Me Ride featuring Eminem, will be released digitally on December 11. Eminem said: “When I met Skylar I
was blown away with her talent as both a songwriter and vocalist. This album is really going to give her a chance to connect with the fans who probably know her music, but might not know her yet. I think they will be as impressed as I am.” Grey is responsible for co-writing
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songs totaling more than 25 million sales globally – including the biggest-selling single of 2010: Eminem’s Love the Way You Lie and Dr. Dre’s I Need A Doctor.
Alice producer David Kosten, is scheduled for release and EE will tour in support of it. The run of shows commences on February 6 at Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth and finishes at Manchester’s O2 Academy on February 22.
December 9
End having left his native Pakistan and family to discover a better life. Working on a market stall selling fish, he needed a trader’s call to grab passing trade “Have-a, have-a look, one pound fish. Very, very good, very, very cheap, one pound fish." After a video of him was uploaded to YouTube, Nazir found himself thrust into the spotlight – the video now boasts over 3.5 million views. Following an X Factor audition,
Nazir’s song was covered by Timbaland and Alesha Dixon. The Official Charts Company
has touted it as a ‘renegade contender’ for Christmas No.1 Remixes will be available from
a whole host of names including Mistajam’s Speakerbox remix.
STAFF PICK: KARMA BERTELSEN, SALES EXECUTIVE
THE LUMINEERS The Lumineers (Dualtone Records) Getting hold of this album was the result
of accepting an invitation to a live performance by this trio in which they filled a venue with joyous upbeat faces. With all the stomping, dancing and clapping that was going on, the band turned the gig into what seemed like a beginners’ barn-yard dance class in the middle of London. Frontman, Wesley Keith Schultz’s
young Dylan-like voice and twangy guitar playing presents itself in the introductory song Flowers In Your Hair, setting a pattern for the rest of the album. The triangle of multi-instrumentalists
SPRING 2013
in the band allows them to accentuate the rootsy folk-rock feel they give off
by swaying from depending on their rustic voices and conventional instruments. Stubborn Love is a great example of
how Neyla Pekarek gracefully absorbs the listeners with her melodic backing vocals and vibrating cello accompaniment to Schultz’s singing and strumming. In Charlie Boy,
Jeremiah Caleb Friates steps away from his drum kit to pluck at the mandolin gently, adding a
soft yet ambient touch to the song. The album contains songs of a
mellow nature like Slow It Down as well as cheerful sing-along tunes like Ho Hey, all consisting of deep soul-filled lyrics controlled by simple instrumentals and prevailing vocals. It’s managed to creep its way into my list of favourite 2012 albums.
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