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THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS Bad Habits Domino
A new track from the Alex Turner/ Miles Kane project, taken from their forthcoming second album. Contact: Colleen Maloney
colleen@dominorecordco.com
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ON THE RADAR ED TULLETT
CREEPER Black Mass Roadrunner Records
New EP The Stranger is out February 19 and follows last year’s The Callous Heart. Contact: Phoebe Sinclair
phoebe.sinclair@
warnermusic.com
YEASAYER I Am Chemistry Mute
Impacting February 5, the Brooklyn band’s new single is taken from forthcoming album Amen & Goodbye (out April 1).
Contact: Jodie Banaszkiewicz
jodie@staygoldenpr.com
ANNA MEREDITH Taken Moshi Moshi
Available as an instant grat with pre-orders of the singer’s debut LP, Varmints (out March 4). Contact: Kathryne Chalker
kathryne@insideslashout.com
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EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Disintegration Anxiety Bella Union
The band’s sixth album, The Wilderness, is out April 1. Pre-orders come with their new track as an instant grat.
Contact: Duncan Jordan
duncan@bellaunion.com
NINA NESBITT Chewing Gum Island Records
Out February 5, the singer’s Modern Love EP is her fi rst release since 2014’s debut album, Peroxide. Contact: Alix Wenmouth
alix@wastedyouthpr.com
d Tullett isn’t your average singer/ songwriter type. He’s got writing credits on releases from a variety of acts, from Violet Skies to Novo Amor. And there’s no stopping him on his own music projects either. “The musicians that I hold in the highest regard and am inspired by - people like Radiohead and Justin Vernon/Bon Iver - they do different things,” he tells Music Week.
“That’s what I wanted to do; my music taste isn’t the most diverse, but within the stuff I do listen to, I want to make music in every single genre. I’ve always wanted to do something like Deftones, I still think My Chemical Romance’s third record is amazing. I’ve always wanted to make music in lots of different genres and that’s what I’m lucky enough to be able to start doing now.” Tullett is gearing up to release his debut full-length, Fiancé, via Monotreme Records next month. “I’m in a weird situation because I haven’t released anything under my name bar Faux, a song with Novo Amor, for nearly three years,” he admits. “I’m only 22, so my last thing was written when I was 19. So we’re treating this record as my proper debut.”
Day to day, he points out, Tullett is usually writing. He explains: “I properly started co-writing at the start of 2015 when I signed to BDi Music, which is part of Bucks - previously I was on a publishing company called Razor & Tie in the US. Then I started doing a lot of co-writing over here. One of my first ones was with an artist called Violet Skies; I ended up producing a song that we co-wrote, called Liar.
ANNE-MARIE Do It Right Major Toms/Atlantic
Out now, the singer’s latest track has been given the video treatment. Contact: Claire Coster
Claire.coster@
atlanticrecords.co.uk
“She’s previously worked with Kim [Harrison- Lavoie, director] at Monotreme, because she was featured on [producer] Stumbleine’s stuff. I told Violet I was looking for labels for my record. I think I finished it in mid-2014, so it’s been done for a while - and I had a little bit of interest but nothing super concrete. So she introduced me to Kim, who loved it straight away, and it went from there. It’s good working with someone very closely, as it’s
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RELEASES February 19 Album: Fiancé
LABEL Monotreme Records
MANAGEMENT BDi Music
mostly just her, and she loves the record.” And then there’s all the other projects he’s got going on. Working with Novo Amor, aka Ali Lacey, was one of the key moments in Tullett’s career so far, after it helped him achieve one of the sounds he was looking for. “That was the thing I was trying to do before: it’s very Bon Iver, that pastoral, folky stuff but a bit bigger,” he says. “That gave me the scope to start doing electronic myself.” He adds: “Fiancé is cool because I can’t compare it to that many different artists, which I like. I don’t know what I’ll do with my next Ed Tullett release. But I’ve also got other projects that I’m working on.”
As a prolific songwriter as well as a performer, Tullett has mixed feelings about the rise of the digital age, although he does well through it. Faux, his track with Novo Amor, has over a million streams on Spotify now. “Spotify’s strange, because you get a ton [of plays] if you get on a playlist,” he notes. “That’s like the holy grail for Spotify. I think one of my old songs has been on a playlist and it’s got like 450,000 or something, and the rest are all on 30,000.
“Spotify is cool - obviously there are industry problems with it, but everyone’s got a different opinion on that. Geoff Barrow from Portishead tweeted about making hardly any money, and that’s all well and good, but it’s presented without any context. The reason he’s probably made so little is because he has a bad deal with a major label and therefore gets almost no royalties. He’s probably compensated for that with a big advance or something like that. There’s always context to it.”
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