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After their four-date sold-out stint at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year as part of their 10th anniversary in September, McFly return with new single Love Is On The Radio, which has ‘dashes of Americana and indie folk over a rousing drum beat’. It’s the first single to be taken
MCFLY SUSAN BOYLE
Home For Christmas (Syco Music)
Singing sensation Susan Boyle returns with an album of her favourite classic Christmas songs, Home For Christmas. The LP marks Boyle’s fifth studio album in four years and features
yet another record-breaking achievement: she is the first British artist to have a posthumous duet with Elvis Presley, in the form of lead single O Come, All Ye Faithful. She recorded the album in Glasgow with acclaimed producers Cliff
Masterson and Steve Anderson (Lionel Richie, Kylie Minogue, Emeli Sande and Westlife) on the record, which includes other special guest vocals from The Overtones on Little Drummer Boy and Johnny Mathis on When A Child Is Born. The album features one original song, Miracle Hymn, the soundtrack from her first upcoming movie The Christmas Candle. Since her appearance on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009, Boyle has
November 25 INCOMING ALBUMS
VARIOUS Mary Poppins 50th Anniversary Edition OST ((Universal Music/Walt Disney Records)) This double CD OST of classics from Mary Poppins is being released in conjunction with the
50th anniversary of the movie. The award-winning album includes
classic hits including Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Jolly Holiday, Step In Time, Let’s Go Fly A Kite, Feed The Birds and Chim Chim Cher-ee. In 1965, the Sherman Brothers won
Oscars for the soundtrack, namely Best Music, Best Original Song for Chim Chim Cher-ee and Best Music Substantially Original Score, as well as Grammys for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show and Best Recording for Children amongst other accolades. The film Saving Mr Banks, based on
the negotiation with Walt Disney and the making of Mary Poppins with its creator
P.L.Travers will be in cinemas this Christmas.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG & NORAH JONES Foreverly
(Reprise Records) Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and singer/songwriter Norah Jones have
teamed up to record Foreverly, a 12-song collection inspired by Songs Our Daddy Taught Us - an album of traditional Americana songs reinterpreted, recorded and released by The Everly Brothers in 1958. Armstrong and his engineer, Chris
Dugan, traveled to New York to record with Jones at The Magic Shop in Manhattan with two of Jones’ favorite musicians, bassist Tim Luntzel and drummer Dan Rieser. Armstrong and Jones played guitar and piano. Charlie Burnham on fiddle and Johnny Lam on pedal steel guitar rounded off the band. Those who pre-order the album
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on iTunes will receive an instant free download of the song Long Time Gone.
NOVEMBER 25
VARIOUS All Trap 2 (All Trap Music/AEI)
Following its groundbreaking spring success, All Trap Music has curated a follow-up collection.
Boasting 33 of the scene’s tracks, All
Trap Music 2 demonstrates trap’s scope and creative potential, and features an all- star cast from Major Lazer to Massappeals, Baauer to Buku, Diplo to Disclosure. This album is home to some of the
most influential names in trap music and also reflects how the genre has infiltrated the wider electronic music scene. Many producers who’ve enjoyed success in other genres have thrown themselves into trap, and All Trap Music 2 claims to have cherry- picked the very best of these examples. The UK-based All Trap Music
YouTube channel has amassed over 270,000 subscribers, enjoyed over 29 million upload views and held parties across the globe from Miami to Manchester.
become a global top-selling artist. To date her previous four albums, have sold over 20 million copies and stormed to the top of the charts in over 30 countries.
Love Is On The Radio (Super Records)
from their forthcoming sixth album, due in spring 2014 – the follow-up to 2010’s Above The Noise. The album has been produced
by the band and their long-term producer Jason Perry with much of it recorded and produced on a trip in El Paso, Texas. McFly have also contributed
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to both of One Direction’s albums to date, with another of their tracks due to appear on 1D’s forthcoming third album. Also become TV stars in their own right with winning appearances on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here and Strictly Come Dancing, as well as their own The McFly Show special.
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SLEIGH BELLS Bitter Rivals (Mom+Pop Music)
Sleigh Bells are a marmite-kind-of-a- band. Regardless, the ‘noise pop’ duo are pretty distinctive with their crashing waves of slightly off-key synthesisers and sound effects, heavy reverb and soft female vocals. The new album adopts all the traditional Sleigh Bells charm, but thanks to the injection of more melodious songs, it’s a whole lot friendlier on the ears. The ten tracks are an eclectic
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celebration of the variety that the band have to offer. The album kicks off with the title track, which is abrupt and aggressive until the vocals transform from pounding to understated and then back again. The irresistibly catchy Sugarcane is up next, a further
exploration of Alexis Krauss’ diverse voice, coupled with an insatiable guitar part from Derek Miller. Sing Like A Wire screams of Yeah
Yeah Yeahs, with Karen O-esque screeching vocals and harsh electronic riffs, whilst Tiger Kit has a powerful, poppy chorus that’s impossible not to sing along to - not dissimilar to classic pop rock group Spin Doctors. To Hell With You is a
departure from the band’s upbeat nature - a slow, pleasant tune that is about as close to a love song as the duo get: it’s a clever portrayal of love/hate: “Don’t turn your back on me/Wait and see/I’ll go to hell with you.” Closing track Love Sick literally chimes with the sound of sleigh bells behind Krauss’ softened vocals: a fitting end to a record that will leave the heads of this band’s haters ringing with second thoughts.
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