{"id":2063,"date":"2019-05-31T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:23:48","slug":"new-releases-7jun2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-7jun2019\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 7 June 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week\u2019s carefully selected lovelies start with Office Politics<\/em><\/strong>, which is \u2013 barely believably \u2013 The Divine Comedy<\/strong>\u2019s 23th album. Main man Neil Hannon says of this follow-up to 2016\u2019s mighty fine Foreverland<\/em>: \u201cIt has synthesisers, and songs about synthesisers, but don\u2019t panic, it also has guitars, orchestras, accordions, and songs about love and greed. I do try to make normal records, but it always seems to wander off into odd territories.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Rickie Lee Jones<\/strong> releases Kicks<\/em><\/strong>, an eclectic album of ten cover songs \u2013 from \u2018Mack The Knife\u2019, written in 1928 for a German musical that became a jazz standard, to \u2018Bad Company\u2019 the eponymous theme song of the British rock band written in 1974. The arrangement and instrumentation provides a fresh and modern sonic infusion to every song. Rickie Lee Jones skyrocketed to fame in 1979 when, as a barely known artist, she appeared on Saturday Night Live, performing her biggest hit \u2018Chuck E\u2019s In Love\u2019 in her trademark red beret.<\/p>\n

The next chapter of Neil Young<\/strong>\u2019s ongoing archival series spotlights a concert he played with the Stray Gators<\/strong> at the University of Alabama on 5 February 1973, entitled simply Tuscaloosa<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cIt\u2019s from the period right around Harvest and Tonight\u2019s the Night,<\/em>\u201d Young said. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s edgy. It\u2019s like those mellow songs with an edge. It\u2019s really trippy to be down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and singing those songs from Harvest and the songs that we were doing for Time Fades Away before it came out. I found this thing and it had such a great attitude to it. I just loved the whole night.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The hugely successful and much-respected British musician and songwriter Jamie Cullum<\/strong> has announced his return with the his eighth studio album, Taller<\/em><\/strong>. Cullum wrote and recorded the new album at the studio of his longtime friend and collaborator Troy Miller. The ten-track Taller<\/em> represents a striking new direction, with the artist revealing a powerful and intimate vulnerability that\u2019s being described as having \u201call the passion and intrigue you would expect from a debut record\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rock legend Peter Frampton<\/strong> is voyaging into a new genre. The guitar virtuoso has announced a new album called All Blues<\/em><\/strong>, composed entirely of blues covers performed by the Peter Frampton Band. \u201cI have always loved to play the blues,<\/em>\u201d Frampton remarked. \u201cWhen we formed Humble Pie, the first material we played together was just that. For the last two summers I had been playing a handful of blues numbers every night onstage with Steve Miller Band. I enjoyed this immensely and it gave me the idea of doing an All Blues album live in the studio with my band. The energy of these tracks is completely different from building a track one instrument at a time.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Our album of the week is Africa Speaks<\/em><\/strong>, the new energy-infused album from music legend Santana<\/strong>, which features the soulful vocals of Afro-Latin singer Buika. Santana and his eight-piece band (including his wife, Cindy Blackman Santana, on drums), convened at legendary producer Rick Rubin\u2019s Shangri La Studios in Malibu. In a joyous and stimulating 10-day period they recorded an astonishing number of tracks, many of them in one take. Inspired by the melodies, sounds and rhythms of Africa, Santana has created a truly memorable and powerful experience that also promises to be one of his most groundbreaking albums yet.<\/p>\n

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Click an image for more details and to order your copy. Look out for our special low pre-sale prices<\/strong> in red \u2013 order early so you don\u2019t miss them!<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s carefully selected lovelies start with Office Politics, which is \u2013 barely believably \u2013 The Divine Comedy\u2019s 23th album. Main man Neil Hannon says of this follow-up to 2016\u2019s mighty fine Foreverland: \u201cIt has synthesisers, and songs about synthesisers, but don\u2019t panic, it also has guitars, orchestras, accordions, and songs about love and greed.…<\/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],"tags":[1331,235,1330,36,1333,1332,232,603,745],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-jamie-cullum","tag-neil-young","tag-neil-young-stray-gators","tag-new-release","tag-peter-frampton","tag-peter-frampton-band","tag-rickie-lee-jones","tag-santana","tag-the-divine-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","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=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}