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GOLDFRAPP Tales Of Us


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Goldfrapp release their sixth album Tales Of Us in September. The album is written and produced by band members Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory and was recorded at their studio in the English countryside. Two years in the making, the LP is said to be their ‘most narrative, cinematic and intimate’ recording so far with all the songs, bar one, named in the first person. A trailer for the album offering the first chance to get a glimpse of


Tales Of Us can be seen at goldfrapp.com. Filmmaker Lisa Gunning is creating a film to accompany the LP, which will be shown in cinemas later this year. Goldfrapp kickstart a summer of live performances with July


shows in Manchester when they will be performing Tales Of Us live for the first time, accompanied by the Royal Northern College Of Music String Orchestra. The band will then be performing at Somerset House, headlining the Lovebox main stage on the Sunday. The summer shows are a precursor to a European headline tour in October and November. The album will be available on CD, vinyl, digital and a special


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VARIOUS ARTISTS UKF Summer Drum & Bass ((UKF Music)


UKF is releasing its inaugural Summer Drum & Bass collection.


The set takes on a


deeper and more soulful sound which showcases the genre’s richest musical properties whilst remaining brilliantly bassy. It features tracks by seminal artists of the genre including Friction, Netsky, Calyx & TeeBee, Rollz, Die & Jenna G and many more, plus two exclusives including Someone To Love from Artificial Intelligence and Kathy Brown - tipped by many of the biggest drum & bass DJs as the next big summer anthem. Regarded as bass music’s leading


curator, the UKF brand has grown to encompass several compilation series, live events and the legendary YouTube channels, which have notched up over 1.4 billion hits to date and a subscriber base of over 5.5 million.


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FOY VANCE Joy Of Nothing (Glassnote Records)


Irish artist Foy Vance will release his Glassnote Records debut record this summer.


The collection of 10 original


songs was created with Irish producer, musician and engineer Michael Keeney with Vance penning them. There are also guest appearances on the record by Ed Sheeran and Bonnie Raitt. Vance supported Sheeran on his UK


tour in late 2012, followed by a sold- out headline UK tour earlier this year. He’s spent the past few months on Sheeran’s sold out US tour, and has previously toured with the likes of Michael Kiwanuka and David Gray. Currently, Vance is preparing to embark on a European tour opening for Bonnie Raitt this summer, before a series of festival dates in UK, Europe and the US.


ALBOROSIE Sound The System (VP Records)


Described as ‘the most Jamaican of all Sicilians’, Alberto D'Ascola, also known as Alborosie, is back


with new album Sound The System, due for UK release in July 1 – this follows previous album 2 Times Revolution. Recorded in his studio in Jamaica,


Alborosie wrote, composed and produced the whole album, as well as playing all the instruments on it. Guest vocalists include Abyssinians, Ky-Mani Marley and Italian singer Nina Zilli. His first single Play Fool (To Catch Wise)


is a tribute to Jamaican reggae group Black Uhuru and Sly & Robbie and is available to stream now on SoundCloud. This summer Alborosie will be touring


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extensively on the European festival circuit with appearances at Solidays, Outlook and Rototom Sunsplash, plus many more. He won the best reggae act accolade at the 2011 MOBO Awards.


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limited-edition boxset that will contain an exclusive disc of bonus material and a hardback book compiled by Goldfrapp.


MICHAEL BUBLE


Close Your Eyes (Reprise)


Michael Bublé’s new album To Be Loved became his first album to go straight to No.1 in the UK with first week sales of 120,000. It also topped the charts in eight other countries and it is currently approaching worldwide sales of 2 million. Now Bublé is releasing single


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Close Your Eyes. Written with his pianist and regular co-writer Alan Chang as well as Canadian singer-songwriter Jann Arden Richards, the track is “about women and the strength that women have. How important the female is in all of our lives”. The release of the single comes ahead of his landmark residency at London’s O2 Arena. The run of dates will be the second-longest ever performed at the venue by a male solo artist after Prince, and represents Bublé’s first shows here since he played twenty UK and Ireland arena and stadium shows in 2010.


STAFF PICK: TINA HART, STAFF WRITER


THE KILLERS Wembley Song (Live exclusive)


This is my favourite thing this year. Who'd have thought that The Killers - the epic-tune performing, all-stadium conquering Killers - would end up singing a song that includes a mention of the borough of Brent?! As a born and bred North West


Londoner, I found the un-listened-to concept of the Wembley Song hilarious but upon enlightening myself by viewing the online video (301+ views), I realised it's a bloody genius tune and am wondering why any other band hasn't attempted to pay homage to the great stadium in song in such a way before (to my 27-year-old knowledge anyway). Encompassing just the right amount of slightly cheesy sentiment with popular name dropping of many legendary acts who have played the


venue in the past (Pink Floyd, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Queen and a LOLtastic rhyming mention of George Michael), plus nods to the St George’s Cross and three lions as well as some singalong- friendly daaay-o ing for good measure - this may well be the cleverest song Brandon and co have ever composed... And all sang with Mr Flowers grinning from ear-to-ear throughout. Some clever tech bods pieced


together footage from the show at Wembley Stadium on June 22 and here it is in all its online video glory http://bit.ly/WembleySong Bets on Wembley bods buying the


rights to the song/MOTD montage sync/an official release...


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