Tim Burgess details double album due in September

Typical Music, the sixth solo album from Tim Burgess -the front man of British band The Charlatans, singer/songwriter, Tim's Twitter Listening Party creator and author - arrives via Bella Union Records on September 23. Pre-orders and pre-saves are available now.

Produced at Wales’ famed Rockfield Studio by longtime collaborator Daniel O’Sullivan (Grumbling Fur, Sunn O))), Ulver), it includes new single and title track, “Typical Music,” available at all DSPs and streaming services. An official music video – directed by 7x MTV Video Music Awards-winner Kevin Godley (U2, Sting, Blur) – is on YouTube.

WATCH "TYPICAL MUSIC" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE TYPICAL MUSIC

The first example of the album came with the first single and album opener, “Here Comes The Weekend,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services. The track also arrived alongside a Kevin Godley-directed companion video streaming now via YouTube.

LISTEN TO “HERE COMES THE WEEKEND”

WATCH OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Tim Burgess has had a career encompassing three decades as lead singer and frontman of The Charlatans, five solo albums, three memoirs, the foundation of the O Genesis label, and more than 1000 installments of Tim’s Twitter Listening Party. Conceived by Burgess in March 2020 at the dawn of the pandemic era, the online events brought people around the world together through real-time album playbacks via Twitter, featuring stories from bands and fans, rarely seen images, and exclusive insights and anecdotes from the artists who created some of music’s most iconic albums.

The pandemic years also saw Burgess’s own creative muse in full gear, with the new songs emerging on the new double album.

“OK, we all know about double albums, right?,” says Tim Burgess. “Historically, they’ve been thought of as indulgent. But I came to the conclusion that what I was doing was the opposite of that. I wanted to give people everything that I’d done. Every idea was treated as if it was the best thing and had to be treated with extreme care. I wanted to give everything of myself. That was it.”

Burgess brought his burgeoning batch of songs to Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, a storied establishment that held powerful memories for him, including the recording of The Charlatans’ 1997 landmark, TELLIN’ STORIES, an experience irreparably tarnished by the death of the keyboard player Rob Collins in a car crash at the bottom of the lane while making that album.

Though Burgess hadn’t properly been back to Rockfield in almost 25 years, he now felt ready to return, this time joined by Daniel O’Sullivan, a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and member of his live band, and keyboard/synth player Thighpaulsandra (Julian Cope, Coil, Spiritualized).

“I fell in love with the world again,” Burgess says. “During COVID, I read a pile of books, got better on guitar. I had new perspective. I wanted to learn how to be Tim Burgess who makes solo records. People have a vision of me as the singer in The Charlatans. That’s not going to change. Then there’s me as the Twitter guy. But I just fell in love with the world again and wanted the world to take me with them.”

Track list:

1. Here Comes The Weekend

2. Curiosity
3. Time That We Call Time
4. Flamingo
5. Revenge Through Art
6. Kinetic Connection
7. Typical Music
8. Take Me With You
9. After This
10. The Centre Of Me (Is a Symphony Of You)
11. When I See You
12. Magic Rising
13. Tender Hooks
14. Don’t Stay Lost
15. L.O.S.T Lost / Will You Take a Look At My Hand Please
16. A Bloody Nose
17. In May
18. Slacker (Than I’ve Ever Been)
19. View From Above
20. A Quarter To Eight
21. Sooner Than Yesterday
22. Sure Enough
23. What’s Meant For You Won’t Pass By You