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TRACK OF THE WEEK
The lead single from Paloma Faith’s forthcoming album A Perfect Contradiction is Can’t Rely On You, featuring backing vocals from current Official Singles Chart No.1 artist Pharrell Williams, who also produced the track. The pair reportedly met when
PALOMA FAITH TEMPLES
Sun Structures (Heavenly)
The 100th release on the Heavenly Recordings label is set to be the debut album from acclaimed UK psychedelic rock band The Temples – Sun Structures. The 12-track collection was recorded in the boxroom of the band’s
singer-guitarist James Bagshaw’s house in Kettering and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (The Mars Volta, Muse, Franz Ferdinand)). It will be available on CD, download and 12” double vinyl and has been preceded by single Mesmerise, which was released on January 13. The band have picked up fans including Johnny Marr and Noel
Gallagher, and were invited on tour with Suede. Temples performed at Latitude, Reading & Leeds and Festival
FEBRUARY 10 INCOMING ALBUMS
WILD BEASTS Present Tense (Domino)
The fourth album from Wild Beasts, Present Tense, will be released next month, on the same day as
lead single Wanderlust. The band, Hayden Thorpe, Tom
Fleming, Chris Talbot and Ben Little, took a year away from touring to create the 11- track set. Using Konk Studios in London and at The Distillery in Bath, the band collaborated with co-producers Lexxx and Brian Eno protégé Leo Abrahams. Present Tense will be available on CD,
digital, LP and deluxe LP with bonus 12”. Some pre-orders will provide Wanderlust as an instant grat track, alternatively it will be available as a four-track digital bundle with a new song, Byzantine, plus remixes. Wild Beasts will be on tour from
February 19 through to April 15, with numerous shows across Europe, the US, UK and Europe – stopping off at London’s Brixton Academy on April 1.
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CHRISTINA PERRI Head Or Heart (Atlantic)
Single Human (out on March 2) will serve as a taster for the new album Head Or Heart from Christina Perri –
to follow a week later on March 10. The new LP features production from
Martin Johnson (Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo), Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, One Direction), John Hill (P!nk, Santigold), and Butch Walker (Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy) and was mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Manny Marroquin. The iTunes Breakthrough Pop Artist of
2011, Perri saw her track Jar Of Hearts become certified 4x platinum. It’s taken from her internationally-successful 2011 debut album Lovestrong. Perri had another 4x platinum-
certified hit single, A Thousand Years, featured on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 & 2 – Original Motion Picture Soundtracks.
DOLLY PARTON Blue Smoke (Sony Masterworks)
In a partnership between her own label Dolly Records and Sony Masterworks, country music star
Dolly Parton will release her new album Blue Smoke. The LP will be available in advance of
her international Blue Smoke World Tour hitting the UK and Europe, following its New Zealand and Australia stint. Parton is the most honoured female
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country performer of all time with 25 RIAA gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards and 25 No.1 songs on the Billboard Country charts, a record for a female artist. She also has 41 career Top 10 country albums - a record for any artist - and 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years. Her all-inclusive music sales have reportedly topped 100 million units worldwide. She has 7 Grammys, 10 CMA Awards and 5 Academy of Country Music Awards.
No.6 last summer, and more recently completed an extensive sold- out UK headline tour, culminating in an appearance at London’s Electric Ballroom. They will head out across the UK again for 10 dates across February and March 2014, ending with London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on the 8th.
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Can’t Rely On You (RCA)
Paloma attended the Met Ball at New York’s Metropolitan Museum and Pharrell approached her by singing her song New York to her before putting his number in her phone. They ended up recording the track in Miami. Her upcoming third studio
album, Perfect Contradiction is said to see the British artist return to her ‘soul-girl roots’ with influences as diverse as classic Stax, Phil Spector, sixties girl groups, seventies disco and early eighties soul. It follows 2009’s Do You Want
The Truth Or Something Beautiful and 2012’s Fall To Grace - both of which achieved 2 x platinum status in the UK.
STAFF PICK: PATRICK SCOTT, WORK EXPERIENCE
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB So Long, See You Tomorrow (Island)
Bombay Bicycle Club are a rare thing among British bands in that they have a pleasing tendency to recalibrate their sound from album to album. From their indie rock
origins via a folk outing on second album Flaws, the band have expanded once again on fourth LP So Long, See You Tomorrow, this time dipping their toes into the dance genre. Looping is a staple on the album
MAY 2014
with the entire record turning back on itself. The album’s eponymous closing track shares a melody with Overdone, it’s opener, and the closing lyric, ‘Keep going round and round’, emphasises this effect.
Helped out by vocalists Lucy Rose and Rae Morris, songs like Eyes Off You provide a delicate counterpoint to the more up-tempo numbers and demonstrate that frontman, songwriter and now producer Jack Steadman still possesses an admiral melodic touch. For a band who
still have as much collective youth as Bombay Bicycle Club – all their members are under 25 – their musical output has a broadness that most bands will fail
to achieve in their entire careers. So Long, See You Tomorrow only adds another string to their bow and once again demonstrates why Bombay Bicycle Club are one of Britain’s most underrated bands.
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