Metric head to 'Formentera' next month

Toronto rock band Metric released a new song “What Feels Like Eternity” from their forthcoming album, Formentera. Listen/share HERE and watch/share the live performance video HERE.

Their eighth studio album is set for release on July 8 and is available for pre-order/pre-save HERE. Formentera vinyl is available for pre-order in limited edition Natural and Cobalt Blue variants at ilovemetricstore.com. 

“What Feels Like Eternity” is the third song to be released from the new album, the first being “All Comes Crashing” which is their fastest record to cross 1 million streams and is garnering support from flagship alternative rock playlists across radio (SiriusXM's Alt Nation) and DSPs (Spotify's Rock This, Apple Music's ALT CTRL, & Amazon Music's Alternative Hits.)

“Doomscroller” - over 10 minutes long. The album is named for an idyllic island near Ibiza off the coast of Spain—a place which, for Metric, only existed in a “dream destinations” travel book sitting on the desk of their recording studio.

“We had been living in our imaginations for a long time, because we couldn’t physically go anywhere else,” explains guitarist and co-producer Jimmy Shaw. “When you listen to the album from beginning to end, you start with this immediate feeling of tension building, of being stuck in a loop, and then there’s this intense release that happens… you’re swept off your feet into the title track ‘Formentera’ and it’s like you escaped.”

Emily Haines continues, “We came to this realization that it wasn’t even about an actual place anymore, it was about creating an escape for yourself in your mind because you’re powerless over so many things.”

The band will be hitting the road on a North American headline tour, The Doomscroller Tour, in August in Victoria, BC.

They recently launched a mobile app, giving fans early access to limited edition vinyl, exclusive content, concert tickets and more, including 7” singles for "All Comes Crashing" and "Doomscroller" within the app for fans to purchase. You can download the app at ilovemetricapp.com.

Metric has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting War Child and their work to empower children and families in communities affected by war throughout the world. Tickets for The Doomscroller Tour are on sale now. View the full list of tour dates and get tickets HERE.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Doomscroller
2. All Comes Crashing
3. What Feels Like Eternity
4. Formentera
5. Enemies Of The Ocean
6. I Will Never Settle
7. False Dichotomy
8. Oh Please
9. Paths In The Sky

TOUR DATES:

August 11—Royal Theatre—Victoria, BC*
August 12——Royal Theatre—Victoria, BC*
August 13—Orpheum Theatre—Vancouver, BC*
August 15—Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium—Calgary, AB*
August 16—Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium—Calgary, AB*
August 17—Edmonton Convention Centre—Edmonton, AB*
August 19—Conexus Arts Centre—Regina, SK*
August 20—TCU Place—Saskatoon, SK*
August 21—Burton Cummings Theatre—Winnipeg, MB*
August 25—London Music Hall—London, ON†
August 26—Budweiser Stage—Toronto, ON‡
August 27—National Arts Centre—Ottawa, ON†
August 29—MTELUS—Montreal, QC†
August 30—Théâtre Capitole— Quebec City, QC†
September 1—Rebecca Cohn Auditorium—Halifax, NS†
September 2——Rebecca Cohn Auditorium—Halifax, NS†
September 24—The Orange Peel—Asheville, NC
September 25—Brooklyn Bowl—Nashville, TN
September 26—Tabernacle—Atlanta, GA
September 28—House of Blues Dallas—Dallas, TX
September 29—House of Blues Houston—Houston, TX
September 30—ACL Live at The Moody Theater—Austin, TX
October 2—The Van Buren—Phoenix, AZ
October 3—The Observatory North Park—San Diego, CA
October 6—The Wiltern—Los Angeles, CA
October 7—The Fillmore—San Francisco, CA
October 8—The Fillmore—San Francisco, CA
October 11—McMenamins Crystal Ballroom—Portland, OR
October 12—Moore Theatre—Seattle, WA
October 14—The Depot—Salt Lake City, UT
October 15—The Fillmore Auditorium—Denver, CO
October 17—The Fillmore Minneapolis—Minneapolis, MN
October 18—Chicago Theatre—Chicago, IL
October 19—The Fillmore Detroit—Detroit, MI
October 21—The National—Richmond, VA
October 22—The Fillmore Silver Spring—Silver Spring, MD
October 23—The Fillmore Philadelphia—Philadelphia, PA
October 25—House of Blues Boston—Boston, MA
October 26—Brooklyn Steel—Brooklyn, NY
October 27—Brooklyn Steel—Brooklyn, NY
*with Dear Rouge
†with Bartees Strange
‡with Interpol, Spoon and Bartees Strange

Heaven 17 embarks on rare North American tour this fall

Heaven 17 will be coming to North America this fall for their first-ever headlining transatlantic tour celebrating their 40-year career. The acclaimed British duo of Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory will perform their hits, including “Temptation,” “Let Me Go” and “Hands Up To Heaven,” classic tracks and other highlights.

The 15-date We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang outing launches in September in Pawling, NY and will stop in major cities before wrapping in Seattle in October. See below for full list of North American tour dates. Tickets are on sale now. Visit https://www.heaven17.com/live-dates for more information and to purchase.

“Our first trip to America as Heaven 17 was to New York in 1981; in fact, it was my first-ever trip to the USA and was a truly amazing experience. I can’t remember how on earth this came about, but we were going to play our first-ever live performance at the legendary Studio 54,” shares Gregory. “We have, believe it or not, only ever played the States twice since then – once at a brilliant sold-out gig at The Highline Ballroom in NYC and the other at the Music Tastes Good festival in Long Beach, California, both in 2017. So, it’s certainly way past the time for Heaven 17 to finally come and tour in America and we are on our way! We know we have some amazing fans over there and we’re really excited to, at last, be able to play in front of all of them.”

Taking their name from the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange, Heaven 17 grew out of the experimental production outfit the British Electric Foundation, itself an offshoot of the electro-pop group The Human League. In 1981, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left The Human League, recruited vocalist Glenn Gregory and Heaven 17 was born. Their critically acclaimed first album Penthouse and Pavement, featuring their debut single “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang,” followed the same year. 

The group’s second album, the platinum-selling The Luxury Gap (1983), featured the single “Temptation” which peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Chart. Subsequent Top 20 singles off the album were “Come Live With Me” and “Crushed By the Wheels of Industry.”

Over in the U.S. during this time, their self-titled Heaven 17 album (1983) was a re-working of Penthouse and Pavement with three songs deleted, replaced by “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” “I’m Your Money,” and “Let Me Go,” the latter of which received high rotation airplay on alternative rock and new wave radio stations, including LA’s KROQ and Long Island, NY’s WLIR, plus frequent MTV exposure.

Heaven 17 spent the rest of the 1980s releasing a few more albums - How Men Are (1984), Pleasure One (1986) and Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho (1988) - before a hiatus ensued until 1996, when they released Bigger Than America and had their U.S. dance smash single “Hands Up To Heaven.” 

After another break, the 2000s saw the releases of Before After (2005) and Naked As Advertised (2008) and Heaven 17’s return to the stage. Now a collective between Ware and Gregory with piano and synth player Flo Sabeva and soul singers Kelly Barnes and Rachel Mosleh part of the live lineup, Heaven 17, who largely refused to play live during the ‘80s, is now performing headlining tours throughout the UK and alongside the likes of La Roux and Squeeze.

TOUR DATES:

Friday, September 16 - Pawling, NY @ Daryl’s House

Saturday, September 17 - Red Bank, NJ @ The Vogel
Sunday, September 18 - Boston, MA @ City Winery
Tuesday, September 20 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Bag
Thursday, September 22 - Chicago, IL @ Park West
Friday, September 23 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
Saturday, September 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Keswick Theatre
Sunday, September 25 - Alexandria, VA @ Birchmere
Tuesday, September 27 - New York, NY @ (Le) Poisson Rogue
Thursday, September 29 - Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco
Friday, September 30 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
Saturday, October 1 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
Sunday, October 2 - San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 Club
Wednesday, October 5 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Thursday, October 6 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre

www.heaven17.com

The first authorized early Blondie career box set arrives in August

Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982, the first authorized box set of the legendary NYC rock band, will be released on August 26 via UMe/Numero Group. It is available to pre-order now: https://blondie.lnk.to/AgainstTheOddsPR

See the unboxing of the Super Deluxe Collectors' Edition HERE, and listen to Blondie's previously unreleased recording of "Moonlight Drive," out now.

Remastered from the original analog tapes and cut at Abbey Road Studios, this box set is available on four formats (Super Deluxe Collectors' Edition, Deluxe 4LP, Deluxe 8CD and 3CD editions). Housed in a foil-wrapped carton, Against The Odds includes liner notes by Erin Osmon, track by track commentary from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Nigel Harrison, Frank Infante, and Gary Valentine, essays by producers Mike Chapman, Richard Gottehrer, and Ken Shipley, a 120-page illustrated discography, and period photographs.

The collection includes the first six studio albums recorded for Chrysalis; Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican, The Hunter, and in turn their catalogue of era-defining hits "Heart Of Glass," "Atomic," "Tide Is High," "Sunday Girl," "Rapture," and "Call Me." These six albums have been expanded to include over four dozen demos (including the group's first-ever recording session), alternate versions, and studio outtakes, creating a near-complete document of Blondie's studio sessions prior to their 1982 hiatus.

Debbie Harry said, "It really is a treat to see how far we have come when I listen to these early attempts to capture our ideas on relatively primitive equipment. Fortunately the essence of being in a band in the early 70's held some of the anti-social, counter culture energies of the groups that were the influencers of the 60's. I am excited about this special collection. When I listen to these old tracks, it puts me there like I am a time traveler. As bad as it was sometimes, it was also equally as good. No regrets. More music."

"I am hopeful that this project will provide a glimpse into the 'process' and some of the journey that the songs took from idea to final form," guitarist Chris Stein said. "Some of this stuff is like early sketches; the old tape machines are like primitive notebooks. The trickiest thing for me was always about getting the melodies out of my head into reality and the changes that would happen along the way."

"It is amazing that after all this time, and against the odds, our Blondie archival box set will finally be released. It's been a long time coming and we are all very happy and excited with the final results," drummer Clem Burke added.

"From the moment I walked into Chris Stein's barn and saw a wall of tapes I knew we were on the precipice of something extraordinary," producer Ken Shipley said. "Against The Odds is a treasure chest disguised as a box set."

"Blondie is a group of extraordinary artists," producer Steve Rosenthal said. "Years of searching, months of mixing, mastering and restoration, days of decisions went into this box set to highlight the unique path they travelled - from CBGB's to MSG."

Against The Odds has an unusual beginning; for nearly two decades, the bulk of Blondie's audio and visual archive sat inside in Chris Stein's unassuming barn just outside Woodstock, New York. One hundred reel-to-reel tapes, half a dozen cassettes, a few storage tubs crammed with records, bits of promotional flotsam, flyers, a stray Warhol print, and mirrored dressing room signage from four sold-out January 1980 nights at London's Hammersmith Odeon. All of it lay in wait through twenty humid summers, twenty frigid winters. 

Super Deluxe Collectors' Edition

The studio albums:

Blondie

Side A

1. X Offender

2. Little Girl Lies
3. In The Flesh
4. Look Good In Blue
5. In The Sun
6. A Shark In Jets Clothing

Side B
1. Man Overboard
2. Rip Her To Shreds
3. Rifle Range
4. Kung Fu Girl
5. The Attack Of The Giant Ants

Plastic Letters

Side A
1. Fan Mail
2. Denis
3. Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
4. Youth Nabbed As Sniper
5. Contact In Red Square
6. (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear
7. I'm On E

Side B
1. I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No
2. Love At The Pier
3. No Imagination
4. Kidnapper
5. Detroit 442
6. Cautious Lip

Parallel Lines
Side A
1. Hanging On The Telephone
2. One Way Or Another
3. Picture This
4. Fade Away And Radiate
5. Pretty Baby
6. I Know But I Don't Know

Side B
1. 11:59
2. Will Anything Happen
3. Sunday Girl
4. Heart Of Glass
5. I'm Gonna Love You Too
6. Just Go Away

Eat To The Beat
Side A
1. Dreaming
2. The Hardest Part
3. Union City Blue
4. Shayla
5. Eat To The Beat
6. Accidents Never Happen

Side B
1. Die Young Stay Pretty
2. Slow Motion
3. Atomic
4. Sound-A-Sleep
5. Victor
6. Living In The Real World

Autoamerican
Side A
1. Europa
2. Live It Up
3. Here's Looking At You
4. The Tide Is High
5. Angels On The Balcony
6. Go Through It

Side B
1. Do The Dark
2. Rapture
3. Faces
4. T-Birds
5. Walk Like Me
6. Follow Me

The Hunter
Side A
1. Orchid Club
2. Island Of Lost Souls
3. Dragonfly
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. The Beast

Side B
1. War Child
2. Little Caesar
3. Danceway
4. (Can I) Find The Right Words (To Say)
5. English Boys
6. The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

BONUS TRACKS

7" 45 rpm
1. Moonlight Drive
2. Mr. Sightseer

10" LP Out-takes & rarities ('Out In The Streets')
Side A (1974 Session)
1. Out In The Streets (1974)
2. The Disco Song
3. Sexy Ida

Side B (Betrock Demo)
1. Platinum Blonde
2. The Thin Line
3. Puerto Rico
4. Once I Had A Love (1975)
5. Out In The Streets (1975)

LP 1 Out-takes & rarities ('Plaza Sound')
Side A
1. X Offender (Intro)
2. X Offender (Private Stock Single)
3. In The Sun (Private Stock Single)
4. Little Girl Lies (Private Stock Mix)
5. In The Flesh (Extended Intro)
6. A Shark In Jets Clothing (Take 2)
7. Kung Fu Girls (Take 8)
8. Scenery

Side B
1. Denis (Terry Ellis Mix)
2. Bermuda Triangle Blues - Flight 45 (Take 1)
3. I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No (Take 1)
4. I'm On E (Take 2)
5. Kidnapper (Take 2)
6. Detroit 442 (Take 2)
7. Poets Problem

LP 2 Out-takes & rarities ('Parallel Beats')
Side A
1. Once I Had A Love (Mike Chapman Demo)
2. Sunday Girl (French Version)
3. I'll Never Break Away From This Heart Of Mine (Pretty Baby)
4. Hanging On The Telephone (Mike Chapman Demo)
5. Will Anything Happen (Instrumental)
6. Underground Girl

Side B
1. Call Me
2. Spaghetti Song (Atomic Part 2)
3. Die Young Stay Pretty (Take 1)
4. Union City Blue (Instrumental)
5. Llámame

LP 3 Out-takes & rarities ('Coca Cola')
Side A
1. I Love You Honey, Give Me A Beer (Go Through It)
2. Live It Up (Giorgio Moroder Demo)
3. Angels on the Balcony (Giorgio Moroder Demo)
4. Tide Is High (Demo)
5. Susie & Jeffrey

Side B
1. Rapture (Disco Version)
2. Autoamerican Ad
3. Yuletide Throwdown

LP 4 Out-takes & rarities ('Home Tapes')
Side A
1. Nameless (Home Tape)
2. Sunday Girl (Home Tape)
3. Theme From Topkapi (Home Tape)
4. The Hardest Part (Home Tape)
5. Ring of Fire (Home Tape)

Side B
1. War Child (Chris Stein Mix)
2. Call Me (Chris Stein Mix)
3. Heart of Glass (Chris Stein Mix)

Editors return with 'EBM' this fall

Editors' seventh album EBM is scheduled for September 23 through Play It Again Sam. The new album will be the first with new band member Benjamin John Power, aka Blanck Mass, who was announced as a full-time member last month with the album’s first single "Heart Attack."

A second preview is now available in the form of "Karma Climb," with a live video. Listen to the track HERE, and watch the video HERE.

PRE-PRE-ORDER EBM ON DIGITAL / 2xLP / CD / CASSETTE

The six piece have also announced a 15 date European tour taking place in October, as well as 7 shows in the UK and Ireland in early 2023. 

Power says of the album: “There is a strong physicality to this record. EBM started its life with the intention of connecting with people and filling a very physical space. There is also however an emotional physicality running throughout; An urgency and a sense of panic. An unease. Even in its more tender moments there is a yearning for connection.”

LISTEN TO "HEART ATTACK"

WATCH THE VIDEO

LISTEN TO "HEART ATTACK" (PHASE FATALE REMIX)

WATCH THE VIDEO

The album title is an acronym of Editors and Blanck Mass but also a knowing reference to Electronic Body Music, the potent sound that originated in the 1980s and which has hugely influenced Editors’ new material, where the synths of bands like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and DAF hammer darkly amongst smoke machines, strobe lights and the smell of leather in concert.

Power’s addition to the band meant that, for the first time, the song structures weren’t coming from frontman Tom Smith, with him and further band members Justin Lockey, Elliott Williams, Russell Leetch and Ed Lay receiving files to tinker with and flesh out in the studio when they eventually regrouped. “Ben has certainly been a shot of adrenaline in our creative process,” says Tom. “The songs are so immediate, and in your face.”

Speaking on new single "Karma Climb," Tom continues: "It's about hedonistic escapism, not only from the world generally, but also from what people think of you."

All 6 of Editors’ studio albums over their 17 year career have charted in the UK top 10, with 2 scoring number 1’s, and their debut, The Back Room, being shortlisted for the Mercury Prize. Their latest tour saw them play their biggest UK headline show to date at OVO Arena, Wembley in 2020, signalling their ever-growing audience.

Track listing: 

1. Heart Attack

2. Picturesque
3. Karma Climb
4. Kiss
5. Silence
6. Strawberry Lemonade
7. Vibe
8. Educate
9. Strange Intimacy

Europe/UK tour dates: 

JUNE

17 - O Son Do Camino, Spain
24 - Mallorca Live, Spain

JULY
9 - Mad Cool, Spain
14 - Electric Castle, Romania
19 - Balena Festival, Italy
20 - Low Festival, Spain

AUGUST
5 - Wide Skies and Butterflies, UK
14 - Hear Hear Festival, Belgium
28 - Victorious Festival, UK

OCTOBER
1 - Spain, Valencia, Repvblicca
2 - Spain, Bilbao, Santana 27
5 - Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Rockhal
6 - Netherlands, RTM Stage, Rotterdam Ahoy
7 - Copenhagen Vega, Denmark
9 - Germany, Hamburg, Edel-Optics Arena
10 - Germany, Leipzig, Haus Auensee
12 - Poland, Krakow, Club Studio
13 - Germany, Berlin, Max-Schmeling-Halle
15 - France, Paris, Olympia
16 - Switzerland, Lausanne, Les Docks
17 - Austria, Vienna, Gasometer
19 - Switzerland, Zurich, Volkshaus
20 - Italy, Milan Fabrique
21 - Italy, Bologna Unipol

JANUARY (2023)
25 - Nottingham, Rock City
27 - Manchester, Academy
29 - Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
30 - Dublin, National Stadium

FEBRUARY (2023)
1 - London, Troxy
2 - Bristol, Marble Factory

Flogging Molly announces new album; on tour with Interrupters

Celtic punk band Flogging Molly return with their first new album in five years, Anthem (Sept. 9, Rise Records), a collection that finds the Los Angeles-by-way-of-Dublin outfit reunited with Swagger and Drunken Lullabies engineer Steve Albini.

“With this record we went back to the basics in a way that I don’t think we could have done if we hadn’t been playing together for over 20 years,” says singer/guitar player Dave King. “I think going back to Chicago and doing this record with Steve made the experience so fun and I really believe you can hear that on the record. For Flogging Molly, getting together and playing new songs is always the goal—and now we’re just getting excited to start playing these songs live and giving our fans a whole new era of Flogging Molly.”

A second preview of the 11-song collection arrives with the release of “The Croppy Boy ’98,” a track that King describes as “a foot stomping, rollicking ode to traditional Irish music.” The song’s arrival is accompanied by a live video (https://youtu.be/j3WBSfXOHQo) featuring footage from Flogging Molly’s recent St. Patrick’s Day performance and annual festival at the Hollywood Palladium. The band released the irreverent “These Times Have Got Me Drinking/Tripping Up The Stairs” (https://riserecords.lnk.to/TTHGMD) ahead of their March 2022 tour and sold-out Salty Dog Cruise.

As previously mentioned, Flogging Molly and The Interrupters are on a U.S. co-headlining trek with openers Tiger Army and The Skints. Tickets are available via Floggingmolly.com.

Track list:

These Times Have Got Me Drinking

A Song of Liberty
Life Begins And Ends (But Never Fails)
No Last Goodbyes

The Croppy Boy ’98
This Road Of Mine
(Try) Keep The Man Down
Now Is The Time
Lead The Way
These Are The Days
The Parting Wave

Album pre-orders, which include a galaxy green vinyl offering, are available now via https://riserecords.lnk.to/FMAnthem.

Tour dates:

U.S. co-headlining tour with The Interrupters:

June 10 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre

June 11 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
June 12 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre
June 14 St. Louis, MO St. Louis Music Park
June 15 Minneapolis, MN The Armory
June 17 Chicago, IL Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
June 18 Detroit, MI Meadow Brook
June 19 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion
June 21 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheater
June 22 Washington, D.C The Anthem
June 24 Philadelphia, PA Skyline Stage at the Mann
June 25 Columbus, OH KEMBA Live!
June 26 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
June 28 New Haven, CT Westville Music Bowl
June 30 New York, NY Pier 17
July 1 Boston, MA Leader Bank Pavilion
July 2 Lewiston, NY Artpark
July 3 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony Summerstage
September 9 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom Outdoors
September 10 Dillon, CO Dillon Amphitheater
September 11 Salt Lake City, UT Complex Outdoors - The Lot
September 13 Bonner, MT KettleHouse Amphitheater
September 14 Boise, ID Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
September 16 Eugene, OR Cuthbert Amphitheater
September 17 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater
September 21 Paso Robles, CA Vina Robles Amphitheatre

European tour:

July 18 Warsaw, Poland Klub Proxima
July 19 Krakow, Poland Kwadarat
July 23 Cuxhaven, Germany Deichbrand Festival
July 25 Vienna, Austria Open Air Arena
July 26 Vienna, Austria Open Air Arena
July 27 Munich, Germany Tonhalle
July 29 Gijon, Spain Tsunami Festival
July 30 Barcelona, Spain Barna’n’Roll Festival
August 2 Zurich, Switzerland Komplex 457
August 3 Tilburg, 013
August 11 to 14 Rimini, Italy Bayfest Festival
August 12 Rothenburg, Germany Taubertal Festival
August 16 Manchester, England O2 Ritz Manchester
August 17 Birmingham, England O2 Institute Birmingham
August 18 London, England O2 Forum Kentish Town
August 20 Dublin, Ireland Vicar Street

Robbie Williams gets orchestrated on ‘XXV’ in September

Robbie Williams' album ‘XXV’ is slated for Sept. 9 via Columbia Records UK. Pre-order now HERE

Celebrating 25 years as a solo artist and featuring No. 1 hits and fan favorites, the tracks have been newly orchestrated by Jules Buckley, Guy Chambers and Steve Sidwell, and re-recorded with the acclaimed Metropole Orkest in The Netherlands. ‘XXV’ will be available in CD (standard and deluxe), vinyl and cassette formats. The new version of ‘Angels’ is available today, listen to the song HERE

Both the standard and deluxe albums will feature the brand new track ‘Lost’ – a song with poignant lyrics, piano elements and strings. The deluxe album will feature three more original tracks – ‘Disco Symphony’, ‘More Than This’, and ‘The World And Her Mother’.

Robbie says: “I’m so excited to announce my new album ‘XXV’ which celebrates many of my favourite songs from the past 25 years. Each track has a special place in my heart so it was a real thrill to record them again with the Metropole Orkest. Can't wait for you all to hear it."

In other news, Robbie has also raised £60 million to date for charity through co-founding Soccer Aid for UNICEF since 2006 and launched his debut art collection with Ed Godrich, ‘Black and White Paintings’, which were unveiled at Sotheby’s. He will perform the new version of ‘Angels’ during the half-time show at this year’s Soccer Aid which takes place on June 12 and will air on the UK's ITV.

Track listing: 

1. Let Me Entertain You

2. Come Undone
3. Love My Life
4. Millennium
5. The Road To Mandalay
6. Tripping
7. Bodies
8. Candy
9. Supreme
10. Strong
11. Eternity
12. No Regrets
13. She’s The One
14. Feel
15. Rock DJ
16. Kids
17. Angels
18. Lost
19. Nobody Someday

Deluxe edition:

20. Lazy Days

21. Hot Fudge
22. Sexed Up
23. More Than This
24. Disco Symphony
25. Better Man
26. Home Thoughts From Abroad
27. The World and Her Mother
28. Into The Silence
29. Angels (Beethoven AI)

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