„The Year Of The Leopard“ wird am 20. Oktober erscheinen und folgende Titel enthalten:
1. Summer Song
2. Steady As She Goes
3. The Year Of The Leopard
4. 5 a.m.
5. Woozy With Cider
6. I Awoke
7. The Brussles Rambler
8. Orgiva Song
9. Don’t Let Me Down
10. Us Late Travellers
„Steady As She Goes“ wird vorab als erste Single erscheinen.
Aus der Platteninfo:
„The Year Of The Leopard“ is the arresting, intimate third album from singer and wirter James Yorkston.
Though taking a year to complete, it’s a record born of spontanetiy. Discarding more elaborate compositions, Yorkston settled on the songs that had come to him unbidden whilst reading or walking, setting them in spare, acoustic arrangements and often keeping vocals from the very first time the songs were sung.
The result is a candid and heartfelt records, beautifully recorded by producer Paul Webb (aka Rustin Man) and veteran engeneer Phil Brown – the venerable team who met on Talk Talk’s „Spirit Of Eden“, where Webb was the bass player, and who are most noted for the superb Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man Album „Out Of Season“.
Yorkston has always been displaced from musical categorisation, having come up through garage punk, country rock and traditional folk music and has been a long-serving member of the famously eclectic and eccentric Fence Collective.
Though often labelled a folk artist, Yorkston is more part of a broader tradition that might might include everyone from Richard Brautigan to Karen Dalton, Jacques Brel, Can, Scott Walker, Lal Waterson and Johnny Cash – idiosyncratic creators of personal, atmospheric music and words of no fixed abode. This is the album where James rightfully stands among such stellar company.
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Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...