JAMES has announced details of his new album which will be released on April 12 via Virgin Music. YUMMY is the band's eighteenth 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).
The album's first single, IS THIS LOVE, kicks off the album, combining avant-garde synthetic tracks with quintessential James anthems, such a complex dissection of love in all its forms as singer Tim Booth dissects the pain, the heat, battle, distance, fear, release and resistance of this emotion, in search of its goal and purpose. “Love like a bomb” Tim says, “a tsunami that destroys our lives while we cling to the remains of our tranquility.”
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The art for the single and album has been directed and designed by Studio Fury, who have a rich history of creating iconic album covers, including art directing the campaign for the Rolling Stones' latest album, Hackney Diamonds. Full album details, including track listing, formats and artwork, will be released in the coming weeks.
James embarks on their biggest UK tour in June, including the new Co-op Live Arena in Manchester and culminating at The O2 in London, the first time the band have played a 20,000-capacity venue.
2024 SAND TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS RAZORLIGHT
JUNE
Mon 03 ABERDEEN P&J live
Wed 05 NEWCASTLE Utilita Arena
Fri 07 GLASGOW OVO Hydro
Saturday 08 LEEDS First Direct Arena
Tuesday 11 CARDIFF Utilita Arena
Wednesday 12 BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena
Friday the 14th MANCHESTER Live Cooperative
Saturday 15 LONDON O2 Arena
James' Tim, Jim and Saul will also perform with Joe Duddell and an orchestra at Music Feeds Live: A Concert to Fight Food Poverty in aid of The Trussell Trust at Manchester O2 Apollo on February 27. They join other artists including Slow Readers Club, Lanterns on the Lake, The Farm and British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage with his band LYR. Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher will host the event alongside BBC 6 Music presenter Chris Hawkins, and Joe Duddell will collaborate with guests throughout the night.
Tickets and information here
To celebrate the band's 40th anniversary last year, James was honored at the Ivor Novello Awards and received the PRS Music Icon Award, kicking off a full year of celebration. This prestigious award was followed by the release of his orchestral double album. Let yourself be opened by the wonderful, which peaked at No. 3 on the UK album charts in June and received the best reviews of her career. Throughout the summer, the band headlined several UK and European festivals, culminating with two one-off shows backed by a full orchestra and choir at The Odeon Of Herodes Atticus in Athens and a special guest spot at the Latitude Festival.
With over 25 million albums sold across their 42-year career, Manchester legends James are among the most commercial and artistic (and best-loved) alternative bands of their era. Having built a cult following around compulsively art rock gallops like Johnny Yen during the '80s, they managed to achieve mainstream chart success with their major label debut in 1990. golden mother and then joined the early '90s with euphoric anthems of comfort, love, sex, loss and frustration at the world's ills: Come Home, Sit Down, Sound, Once (Lester Piggott) and Laid. His fifth album, Established – the first in a series of James albums produced by Brian Eno – saw them break the US charts, while subsequent albums, including Lash (1997) Millionaires (1999) and Pleased to meet you (2001), cemented their position as a classic singles act, adding Tomorrow, She's A Star, Just Like Fred Astaire and Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) to their formidable canon.
The band went on a six-year hiatus in December 2001, but such was the connection and fervor of their fan base that their reunion in 2007 met with such renewed success that it was as if they had never been far away. Their 2008 comeback album. Hi Mom It became their sixth Top Ten album and its celebrated second era would give them more Top 20 album positions and faster ticket sales than their dizzying initial run. The little death – inspired by the death of singer Tim Booth's mother and his close friend Gabrielle Roth – was critically acclaimed, while Girl at the end of the world in 2016 it returned them to the upper echelons of the albums chart, where they have remained ever since. Living in extraordinary times (2018), All the colors of you (2021) and the new 18th studio album. Delicious are among his best and most prescient releases, dealing with American politics, artificial intelligence technology, and conspiracy theorists, as they face mortality with an undefeated smile and fight for love in a world catastrophically spinning out of control. control. Their 40th anniversary in 2023 was celebrated with a tour of inspired orchestral reworkings of their classics and a Top 3 album. Let yourself be opened by the wonderful – but this was far from an end point.
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