JAMES announces all the details of his new album which will be released on April 12. 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, is the album's opener, combining avant-garde synthetic themes with quintessential James anthems, as a complex dissection of love in all its forms as singer Tim Booth dissects pain, the heat and the battle. , distance, fear, release and resistance of this emotion, in pursuit of its objective and purpose. “Love is 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.
DELICIOUS TRACK LIST
• This is Love
• Life is a fucking miracle
• Better with You
• Stay
• Shadow of a giant
• Way above your head
• Mobile God
• Our world
• Rogue
• Hey
• Butterfly
• Friends
The band has also announced a 2CD Deluxe edition of Deliciouswhose second CD is called Pudding and includes demos produced by the band's four songwriters.
Tim Booth says about the Deluxe Edition of the Pudding CD: “You're listening to demos produced by all four of James' songwriters. Most of them contain the original music and vocals created in the initial improvisations, which is why many of them do not have lyrics. These are the tracks that didn't make it to the next stage, where we would take them to all the band members to contribute and I would work on the lyrics before recording the final versions with a producer. We always make more demos than we use before recording an album and usually improvise over 100 songs before choosing which one to develop. It's our way of keeping our quality high. They may be sketches of songs, but we could hear their potential, how they would develop with further work. James has always loved making B-sides as a way to hone creativity. Maybe see them as the B-sides to the Yummy album.”
PUDDING TRACK LIST
• Nobody but you
• Close enough
• Mine to lose
• Activist song
• It will not be the same
• Tell me something
• Poolewe Day 1 Jam 4
• Arpen Charp
• Deliver the dawn
• Some Pleasure
• Walks upright
• Outtakes from the 50s
Delicious will be available in the following formats: CD | 2CD deluxe | Vinyl | Colored Vinyl (Marbled Red) Exclusive to Retailers | Colored Vinyl (Marbled Orange) D2C Exclusive
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 has 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 Be Opened By The Wonderful, which peaked at No. 3 on the UK album charts in June and received the best reviews of his 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.
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