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Daily Mail – James singer Tim Booth reveals how falling in love with his Shamanic healer wife saved him after cheating death: 'I challenged myself to find a purpose in life or I was going to check out early'

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Daily Mail | Joanna Crawley | 29th April 2024

James singer Tim Booth has revealed how falling in love with his wife Kate Shela at first sight gave his life a purpose after he almost died from a childhood liver disease.

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Stereoboard – Review: James - Yummy (Album Review)

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Stereoboard | Graeme Marsh | 24th April 2024

Despite some similarities with earlier releases, James are no parody of their former selves. Instead, they have evolved into a more mature version. With the addition of Alper’s voice, there is a sustained feeling of being offered something new. As a result, ‘Yummy’ is without doubt the best album James have released since they reformed.

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Virgin Radio – ‘We’re an album band’ - James break down their number one record, Yummy, track-by-track

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Virgin Radio | Eddy Temple-Morris | 22nd April 2024

“I think it’s something perhaps people don’t focus on so much nowadays, with the making of a record, is the thing as an entirety. It’s more like, ‘Where’s your focus track, and let’s pour the energy into that.’ But we’re still old school in that respect, we want it to sound like an hour and a quarter’s worth of music that takes you on a journey, that connects, almost like a set list.”

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Billboard – James celebrate first-ever Official Number 1 studio album with 'Yummy'

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Billboard | Lars Brandle | 22nd April 2024

After 42 years, James finally lands a U.K. No. 1 studio album with Yummy.

The leader at the midweek point, Yummy (via Nothing But Love Music) completes the chart week at No. 1.
It’s the second leader for Tim Booth and Co., following their 1998 career retrospective The Best Of, and 19th U.K. top 40 appearance.

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ITV News – Manchester band James celebrate first Number One studio album with 'Yummy'

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ITV News | 20th April 2024

“We are not a 90s band, a heritage band – we are a restless band of artists who keep on challenging ourselves. Our new albums are as good as our old as we hope this will testify. Because we are older, our new music tends to get less attention than we would’ve done when we were young.”

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Northern Exposure – Review: JAMES PROVIDE POLITICAL POIGNANCE WITH THEIR MOST EXPERIMENTAL RECORD TO DATE – ‘YUMMY’

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Northern Exposure | Morgan H | 19th April 2024

“Yummy” is an album that is perfect for all James fans, whether they’ve been around since the beginning or are only just finding their music now. The group provide opportunities to reflect with raw, observational anecdotes that can settle any uneasiness in a wide spectrum of scenarios and subjects. Merging many musical influences and styles gives the album a unique feel, yet still the same storytelling and picture painting principles that make James who they are.

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Daily Mirror – Legendary band James score first number one album and 'put a crack in the glass ceiling of ageism'

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Daily Mirror | Tom Bryant | 19th April 2024

“The Velvet Underground never sold more than 20,000 copies in their ­lifetime. The aim was to make great music – focus on the music, not the numbers and eventually the people will come. Then we broke big and we watched Sit Down hover at No2 for weeks. We realised to other people it was upsetting that we didn’t make No1. Years later, in compilation shows, only the No1s were chosen as the great songs of the era and it p***** us off. We’ve had many twos and threes but only a No1 compilation album, which is cheating.”

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