James return with their 18th studio album ‘Yummy,’ showcase a new single ‘Is This Love,’ and announce a major UK tour.
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James will release new album ‘Yummy’ on 12th April 2024 via Virgin Music.
Available to pre-order from 25th January, ‘Yummy’ is the band’s 18th studio album. The set is produced by Leo Abrahams (Jon Hopkins, Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Imogen Heap and Regina Spektor) and mixed by Cenzo Townsend (Courteeners, The Specials, Everything Everything).
First single ‘Is This Love’, out now, opens the album and it blends cutting edge synthetics with the quintessential James anthem. Frontman Tim Booth says “Love as a bomb, a Tsunami that rolls over our life as we cling to the wreckage of our peace of mind’.
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Frontman Tim Booth said: “Love as a bomb, a Tsunami that rolls over our life as we cling to the wreckage of our peace of mind”.
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Is This Love ponders the meaning of love – “is this love we just weaponised, can our love outrun these times, is this love you just sempahored, you advance now you withdraw, what is good for?” questioning why people chase something that often ends badly for the promise of something special at the end – “we will get past the hurt to the parade” – and the comfort blanket it provides – “sweet relief from the world in freefall.” Beautiful lush instrumentation with multiple layers and gorgeous vocal harmonies make it feel like an instant James anthemic classic.
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JAMES have announced details of their new album to be released on 12 April via Virgin Music. YUMMY is the band’s 18th studio album and was produced by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Jon Hopkins, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor) and mixed by Cenzo Townsend (Courteeners, The Specials, Everything Everything).
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Today, James reveal a new album – Yummy, released on 12th April via Virgin Music, available to pre-order from 25th January with a new single Is This Love leading the charge.
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The nine-piece band, whose lead singer Tim Booth is from Yorkshire, recently stayed at Broughton Hall to meet up for rehearsals for their forthcoming live tour. While at the venue, they made use of the lavish surroundings to film their first full-band video since 1999 for song Getting Myself Into which features on new album All the Colours of You.
Speaking to The Yorkshire Post recently, Booth explained that a chance meeting while he and his wife were spending time in Central America led to the band staying at Broughton Hall. Booth and his wife made friends out there with Broughton Hall’s owner Roger Tempest and his partner Paris Ackrill.
“They asked where would we be going when we were in the UK and I said we are going to rehearse in some crappy studio in London,” he said. “Roger said come to my house and it happened to be a rather large manor house outside of Skipton. We were blown away by their generosity. It was an amazing return for us as James and it was so joyful. We were playing in these incredible rooms on a carpet that had been donated to the family by Marie Antoinette and with pictures of relatives on every wall space looking down on us as if to say ‘What have you let these riff-raff in here for?’ We had a blast and did lots of filming. The video was really easy to make.”
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“I’ve been a fan of them since, God, the early ’90s,” laughed [Virgin Music Label & Artists Services MD Jim] Chancellor. “We’d tried to work with them in the past actually and never quite managed to get the deal to work ,or things to align. But this time there was something magical about it.”
“They have a drive to better themselves every single time and that’s quite a rarity these days, especially when you’ve got a decent fanbase and you could quite easily just knock the old big tunes out and then take a bow. But they’ve still got the hunger.”
“We’re very bullish, we’ve been reaching for the stars in going to places the band had never been, which is Radio 2, from a radio perspective, and looking to grow their socials and streaming [numbers], everything really. One goal was to try and get them a bit more fixed on the radio in the UK, and we’ve ticked those boxes.”
“They’ve always been a brilliant, brilliant live band,” said Chancellor. “But there’s normally a moment in a band’s career where it all comes together beautifully, then you get that bigger explosion and off they go again. That’s where it feels like it is for James – there’s a renewed vigour, a renewed excitement in them. And that’s what we saw in the demos.”
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It’s the alt-rock chart battle if not of all time then at least of all second Fridays in June. This week, indie legends James, fielding their 16th album ‘All The Colours Of You’, face off against future rock titans Wolf Alice and their critical smash ‘Blue Weekend’ in the most nail-biting race for the top since The Snuts vs. Dry Cleaning a couple of weeks ago.
Both acts have repeatedly stalled at Number Two, denied their moments of chart-topping glory by goal hangers such as Adele and Shania Twain, so passions are high. By rights, their interviews should be alight with pre-bout disses and burns flying between the two camps like the inhabitants of Northern Ireland discussing the benefits of Brexit. “I’ve had ayahuasca comedowns more enjoyable than this shit!”, perhaps, or: “Sit down… at least five positions below us!”
Instead: reserved, respectful silence. You’d barely know there was anything exciting happening at all. Because, somewhere over the past 10 years or so, we’ve forgotten the fine art of the indie beef.
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James will headline Dreamland Margate this summer.
The band will top the bill at the seaside venue on July 31 as part of its Summer Series, with tickets on general sale at 10am on June 4.
A statement on the show’s poster reads: “This standing show will be fully compliant with up-to-date government covid safety guidelines.”
James are also due to play Kenwood House, Scarborough Open Air Theatre, Playground Weekender, Neighbourhood Weekender and the Isle of Wight Festival this summer.
Following that, they’ll head out for a UK and Ireland arena tour in November supported by Happy Mondays, tickets for which are already on sale. They’re hitting the road in support of their new album, ‘All The Colours Of You’, due out on June 4.
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Recover marks the third single to be lifted from the band’s upcoming 16th studio album, ‘All The Colours Of You’, due out on June 4 via Virgin Music Label and Artist Services (formerly Caroline International).
Following Beautiful Beaches and the record’s first single and title track, the poignant offering finds the band at their most personal while celebrating a loved one’s life and legacy. Cast across delicate production, lyrically it reflects on the death of vocalist Tim Booth’s father-in-law to COVID-19 in spring 2020. He said “This song is made and dedicated to all those who have lost loved ones during the pandemic or otherwise. It speaks to the waiting, the pain of not being able to be there when they pass and the gift of the love of their life.”
The song arrives with a special video of the band performing Recover in isolation. It opens with an emotional message from Booth.
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Musicians Against Homelessness have launched their 2018 campaign with a beautiful version of James’ Sit Down recorded by the band with a string quartet conducted by Joe Duddell at Manchester’s Albert Hall last December.
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