{"id":1865,"date":"2018-11-20T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2018-11-20T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:23:18","slug":"andy-burrows-matt-haig-reasons-to-stay-alive-1feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/andy-burrows-matt-haig-reasons-to-stay-alive-1feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Andy Burrows & Matt Haig \u2013 Reasons To Stay Alive<\/em>, out 1 February"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Andy<\/a><\/p>\n

Reasons To Stay Alive<\/em><\/strong>, its title boldly acknowledging the themes and influence of best-selling author Matt Haig<\/strong>\u2019s 2015 autobiographical book, is a unique project: a rich, colourful suite of gutsy, classic songwriting. Full of shades of Elton John, Supertramp and Queen, and with an emotional undercurrent that could not be more relevant in today\u2019s world. Together the pair spin love stories, travel space and time, celebrate soul-mates and travel unflinchingly into the tenderer recesses of the mind.<\/p>\n

The album burst into life over an intense first fortnight, with Andy Burrows<\/strong> (Razorlight, We Are Scientists) in Los Angeles and Matt at home in Hove. Each afternoon, piano parts with the kind of melodies Haig had never envisaged would arrive in his inbox. \u201cAs soon as I heard what Andy was doing, I couldn\u2019t have imagined it any other way,<\/em>\u201d says Haig. \u201cHe had somehow unlocked the melody inside the words. It was so instantaneous, to have that back and forth. When you write books it\u2019s not the same, that\u2019s more like the musician-producer relationship. I\u2019ve hated collaborations before!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason his words rang so true with me,<\/em>\u201d says Burrows, \u201cis that the darkness of life is so important to filter, and take on board, and put back out \u2013 but these songs all have a trim of colour and an optimistic flare.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Note<\/em>: the LP is available on indies-only coloured vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re offering Reasons To Stay Alive<\/em><\/a> at special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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Reasons To Stay Alive, its title boldly acknowledging the themes and influence of best-selling author Matt Haig\u2019s 2015 autobiographical book, is a unique project: a rich, colourful suite of gutsy, classic songwriting. Full of shades of Elton John, Supertramp and Queen, and with an emotional undercurrent that could not be more relevant in today\u2019s world.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[1253,1252,1254,36,829,830,1235,194,613],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-andy-burrows","tag-andy-burrows-matt-haig","tag-matt-haig","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-razorlight","tag-special-offer","tag-we-are-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}