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The My Morning Jacket frontman talks to Larry Fitzmaurice about blowing up the tortured-artist myth, trying to escape the endless maze of modern technology, embracing his feminine side, and his proper debut album as a solo artist.
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This brand new Youtube episode is dedicated to talking through HOW I actually make design decisions when it comes to my family album spreads!! How do I select which images go where? How do I find patterns and what system do I use to piece this massive project together?!
The Richard D. James Album is the fourth studio album released by Richard D. James, more well known as Aphex Twin. This album shows him shifting away from slow, melodic ambient techno, and replacing it with fast drum and bass. It also largely ditches analogue synthesizers and drum machines, as nearly the entire album was made on a Macintosh. In an interview with Keyboard Magazine, Richard states that:
My Spirit Sister is officially out in the world. Since its release on April 7, I have been overwhelmed by how well the album has been received. Prior to its release, NPR, Rolling Stone and Noisey reviewed and premiered tracks from the album and, most recently, The Bluegrass Situation wrote a kind review that beautifully summarizes the track "Losin' Mi Mente." This reception has lead me to a grateful heart and mind, and thank you's radiate from my crooked toes to my wandering brain.
On 1977's spooky "Hall of Mirrors," legendary German electro-pioneers Kraftwerk sang a line that underscored the hyperreal appeal of the clean-cut, automaton-like likenesses that made up their album portraits and public image: "He fell in love with the image of himself/ And suddenly the picture was distorted." But decades later, it's hard not to hear the line as a prophecy for the brain-bending work of Richard D. James, known to most music fans as Aphex Twin, who shares with his progenitors a taste for altering his visage in the service of his shapeshifting music. But where Kraftwerk seemed to jokingly transcending their humanity, James and his collaborator Johnny Clayton took an opposite tact, deconstructing images of the producer to look more and more fallibly human. It was move that, at the time, felt representative of the compositions he was churning out, works that similarly seemed to toy with the uncanny valley between man and machine.
If all this sounds rather juvenile, that's because it is. In 1996, the year of the album's release, James said in an interview that the album was a tribute to his dead brother (Richard is the Aphex Twin, get it?). If the man who previously claimed to own a tank and subsequently lived in a bank is to be believed, that brother was stillborn, three years before James' mother successfully conceived him and gave him the same name. By way of proof, the cover of the Girl/Boy EP released shortly before Richard D. James Album featured a gravestone that supposedly belonged to James' late brother (the photo was also included in booklet for the American edition of the full-length). Because the name "Richard James" is fairly common, and Aphex Twin has been known for straight-up lying to reporters for much of his career, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of this narrative. But what a hook: it lends gravitas to the fact that Richard D. James Album was quite possibly the first electronic album of the post-rave era to be about something.
The more playful breakbeats of "Cornish Acid" follow, and "Peek 824545201" zips and thwips, stringing together Autechre-like bubbles of alien percussion beneath another calming melody line on some kind of low-end, ghostly bass organ. "Fingerbib," a woozy synth ballad takes over, building and cresting over a skeletal rhythm track. These are the strongest melodies of James' career, and the first time he ever conceived such rich compositions. Supposedly this album took him longer to make than anything he'd done previously, and the amount of care he's put into it shows. Even the doodles, like the post-classical "Goon Gumpas," have a discernable tug of heartbreak.
Richard D. James Album is one of the most thoroughly realized electronic albums ever made; listening to it in 2016, it seems not just ahead of its time, but ahead of a more colorful and polyrhythmic era we're either still waiting on or unable to conjure up in our collective post-pubescent mind. It makes you realize that the scary-looking James on the cover is not a villain but a friendly monster, like the inhabitants of Where the Wild Things Are. If electronic music has matured in the last 20 years, Richard D. James Album is a childhood snapshot of the wild imagination we all outgrow. All that lingers is that stupid grin.
Two years after the release of his last solo LP, Friends That Break Your Heart, James Blake is delivering his sixth studio album later this year. The 11-track Playing Robots Into Heaven will be available everywhere on September 8 via Republic Records, but until then, the singer-songwriter-producer has shared the lead single from the record, "Big Hammer." Watch the official music video below.
Ten days after the release of the new album, Blake will be going on a 14-date international headline tour, starting at Milan's Fabrique and going to several cities across Europe before heading to North America. The tour ends in October at Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetary.
James Arthur is known for his huge hits 'Impossible', 'Say You Won't Let Go', 'Rewrite the Stars' with Anne-Marie, and his recent song 'Blindside' - but with four albums already out, fans have been eagerly awaiting news of James' next one.
The wait is almost over now, as James has now finally revealed the name and release date of his highly-anticipated fifth studio album. Taking to Instagram, the 35-year-old revealed that his fifth record is called 'Bitter Sweet Love' and is due to be released on 26th January 2024.
Since his last album, James has released a couple of dance tracks, 'Lose You' with Afrojack and 'Work With My Love' with Alok. Although not confirmed, if they are included on the record then they would be a departure from his usual music, which, in his own words is: "Sad and heart-wrenching."
James has not confirmed a tracklist, or which songs will be on his upcoming album, however he has released several songs which are not included on his last album 'It'll All Make Sense In The End', these are: 'Questions' with Lost Frequencies, 'Heartbeat', 'Lose You' with Afrojack and 'Work With My Love' with Alok.
In 2023 he also released several more songs, it is not yet known which songs, if any, will be featured on his new album, however, it is believed that 'Blindside' is on the album. Since releasing 'Blindside', James has also released 'Just Us' and 'Sleepwalking'.
James began writing and recording songs at the age of 15, performing as both a solo artist and in bands including Moonlight Drive, Cue the Drama, Save Arcade and Emerald Skye from 2005 to 2011.
In 2011, James wrote an album called 'Sins by the Sea' which was uploaded to social media sites, before forming The James Arthur Project and releasing EPs 'Hold On' and 'The EP Collection CD'.
James released his winners' single, a cover of 'Impossible' by Shontelle in December 2012, which hit the top spot in the UK charts. His self-titled debut album was released in November 2013 and went to Number 2 in the UK, featuring songs like 'You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You', 'Get Down' and 'Roses' featuring Emeli Sandé. In January 2014, he embarked on his first tour, the 'James Arthur Tour', performing 37 dates around Europe.
James signed a deal with Columbia Records in September 2015 and announced that a new album was on the way. His second album 'Back from the Edge' was released in October 2016, featuring songs 'Say You Won't Let Go' - which was a Number 1 single - and 'Can I Be Him'. James became the first X Factor performer to have two singles sell over a million copies in his home country.
In 2018, James teamed up with Anne-Marie on their amazing cover of 'Rewrite The Stars', for The Greatest Showman: Reimagined. He also appeared on Brazilian soap opera O Tempo não Para, singing his song 'Empty Space'. James released his third album 'You' in October 2019, debuting at Number 2 in the UK, it was certified Silver.
James revealed on Twitter in July 2020 that he was working on a fourth album, writing, 'I've been writing the new album for the last couple of months. I couldn't be more excited to share with you this new lane I'm playing around in, I think you'll be surprised in a good way. This is the album I've wanted to make for so long! #IWAMSITE.' He also worked on song 'Lasting Lover' with DJ Sigala.
James delighted his fans in 2021 when he dropped a number of new tracks, including 'Medicine', 'September' and 'Emily'.
The singer's fourth studio album 'It'll All Make Sense In The End' was released on Friday 5th November 2021.
On top of that, James announced in January 2023 that not only did he have a fifth album on the way, but he was putting the finishing touches on it! Despite not letting any details slip on a release date, it certainly got fans excited for the year ahead.
On 12th May, James released a brand new single titled 'A Year Ago'. Fans were elated with new music from the singer, giving us all a taste of what to expect from him in the year ahead.
On top of teasing his fifth album, James then announced another upcoming single on 24th July. The song, which has a release date of 4th August, is called 'Blindside' and showcases a more upbeat vibe from the award-winning singer.
James took to Instagram in September 2023 to finally reveal the name and release date of his highly-anticipated fifth album. Titled 'Bitter Sweet Love', the album is due to be released on 26th January 2024.
Having failed to convince the head of his label, King Records, to record and release the performance as a live album, James Brown, a man who was famously wise to the value of a dollar, financed the Apollo recording himself. In the end, the show went off not only without a hitch, but with such success that the famously tough Apollo crowd was in a state of rapture. Released in May 1963, Live at the Apollo ended up spending an astonishing 66 weeks on the Billboard album chart and selling upwards of a million copies, giving James Brown his first smash hit album and setting him on a course for his incredible crossover success in the mid-1960s and beyond.
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This brand new Youtube episode is dedicated to talking through HOW I actually make design decisions when it comes to my family album spreads!! How do I select which images go where? How do I find patterns and what system do I use to piece this massive project together?!
The Richard D. James Album is the fourth studio album released by Richard D. James, more well known as Aphex Twin. This album shows him shifting away from slow, melodic ambient techno, and replacing it with fast drum and bass. It also largely ditches analogue synthesizers and drum machines, as nearly the entire album was made on a Macintosh. In an interview with Keyboard Magazine, Richard states that:
My Spirit Sister is officially out in the world. Since its release on April 7, I have been overwhelmed by how well the album has been received. Prior to its release, NPR, Rolling Stone and Noisey reviewed and premiered tracks from the album and, most recently, The Bluegrass Situation wrote a kind review that beautifully summarizes the track "Losin' Mi Mente." This reception has lead me to a grateful heart and mind, and thank you's radiate from my crooked toes to my wandering brain.
On 1977's spooky "Hall of Mirrors," legendary German electro-pioneers Kraftwerk sang a line that underscored the hyperreal appeal of the clean-cut, automaton-like likenesses that made up their album portraits and public image: "He fell in love with the image of himself/ And suddenly the picture was distorted." But decades later, it's hard not to hear the line as a prophecy for the brain-bending work of Richard D. James, known to most music fans as Aphex Twin, who shares with his progenitors a taste for altering his visage in the service of his shapeshifting music. But where Kraftwerk seemed to jokingly transcending their humanity, James and his collaborator Johnny Clayton took an opposite tact, deconstructing images of the producer to look more and more fallibly human. It was move that, at the time, felt representative of the compositions he was churning out, works that similarly seemed to toy with the uncanny valley between man and machine.
If all this sounds rather juvenile, that's because it is. In 1996, the year of the album's release, James said in an interview that the album was a tribute to his dead brother (Richard is the Aphex Twin, get it?). If the man who previously claimed to own a tank and subsequently lived in a bank is to be believed, that brother was stillborn, three years before James' mother successfully conceived him and gave him the same name. By way of proof, the cover of the Girl/Boy EP released shortly before Richard D. James Album featured a gravestone that supposedly belonged to James' late brother (the photo was also included in booklet for the American edition of the full-length). Because the name "Richard James" is fairly common, and Aphex Twin has been known for straight-up lying to reporters for much of his career, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of this narrative. But what a hook: it lends gravitas to the fact that Richard D. James Album was quite possibly the first electronic album of the post-rave era to be about something.
The more playful breakbeats of "Cornish Acid" follow, and "Peek 824545201" zips and thwips, stringing together Autechre-like bubbles of alien percussion beneath another calming melody line on some kind of low-end, ghostly bass organ. "Fingerbib," a woozy synth ballad takes over, building and cresting over a skeletal rhythm track. These are the strongest melodies of James' career, and the first time he ever conceived such rich compositions. Supposedly this album took him longer to make than anything he'd done previously, and the amount of care he's put into it shows. Even the doodles, like the post-classical "Goon Gumpas," have a discernable tug of heartbreak.
Richard D. James Album is one of the most thoroughly realized electronic albums ever made; listening to it in 2016, it seems not just ahead of its time, but ahead of a more colorful and polyrhythmic era we're either still waiting on or unable to conjure up in our collective post-pubescent mind. It makes you realize that the scary-looking James on the cover is not a villain but a friendly monster, like the inhabitants of Where the Wild Things Are. If electronic music has matured in the last 20 years, Richard D. James Album is a childhood snapshot of the wild imagination we all outgrow. All that lingers is that stupid grin.
Two years after the release of his last solo LP, Friends That Break Your Heart, James Blake is delivering his sixth studio album later this year. The 11-track Playing Robots Into Heaven will be available everywhere on September 8 via Republic Records, but until then, the singer-songwriter-producer has shared the lead single from the record, "Big Hammer." Watch the official music video below.
Ten days after the release of the new album, Blake will be going on a 14-date international headline tour, starting at Milan's Fabrique and going to several cities across Europe before heading to North America. The tour ends in October at Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetary.
James Arthur is known for his huge hits 'Impossible', 'Say You Won't Let Go', 'Rewrite the Stars' with Anne-Marie, and his recent song 'Blindside' - but with four albums already out, fans have been eagerly awaiting news of James' next one.
The wait is almost over now, as James has now finally revealed the name and release date of his highly-anticipated fifth studio album. Taking to Instagram, the 35-year-old revealed that his fifth record is called 'Bitter Sweet Love' and is due to be released on 26th January 2024.
Since his last album, James has released a couple of dance tracks, 'Lose You' with Afrojack and 'Work With My Love' with Alok. Although not confirmed, if they are included on the record then they would be a departure from his usual music, which, in his own words is: "Sad and heart-wrenching."
James has not confirmed a tracklist, or which songs will be on his upcoming album, however he has released several songs which are not included on his last album 'It'll All Make Sense In The End', these are: 'Questions' with Lost Frequencies, 'Heartbeat', 'Lose You' with Afrojack and 'Work With My Love' with Alok.
In 2023 he also released several more songs, it is not yet known which songs, if any, will be featured on his new album, however, it is believed that 'Blindside' is on the album. Since releasing 'Blindside', James has also released 'Just Us' and 'Sleepwalking'.
James began writing and recording songs at the age of 15, performing as both a solo artist and in bands including Moonlight Drive, Cue the Drama, Save Arcade and Emerald Skye from 2005 to 2011.
In 2011, James wrote an album called 'Sins by the Sea' which was uploaded to social media sites, before forming The James Arthur Project and releasing EPs 'Hold On' and 'The EP Collection CD'.
James released his winners' single, a cover of 'Impossible' by Shontelle in December 2012, which hit the top spot in the UK charts. His self-titled debut album was released in November 2013 and went to Number 2 in the UK, featuring songs like 'You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You', 'Get Down' and 'Roses' featuring Emeli Sandé. In January 2014, he embarked on his first tour, the 'James Arthur Tour', performing 37 dates around Europe.
James signed a deal with Columbia Records in September 2015 and announced that a new album was on the way. His second album 'Back from the Edge' was released in October 2016, featuring songs 'Say You Won't Let Go' - which was a Number 1 single - and 'Can I Be Him'. James became the first X Factor performer to have two singles sell over a million copies in his home country.
In 2018, James teamed up with Anne-Marie on their amazing cover of 'Rewrite The Stars', for The Greatest Showman: Reimagined. He also appeared on Brazilian soap opera O Tempo não Para, singing his song 'Empty Space'. James released his third album 'You' in October 2019, debuting at Number 2 in the UK, it was certified Silver.
James revealed on Twitter in July 2020 that he was working on a fourth album, writing, 'I've been writing the new album for the last couple of months. I couldn't be more excited to share with you this new lane I'm playing around in, I think you'll be surprised in a good way. This is the album I've wanted to make for so long! #IWAMSITE.' He also worked on song 'Lasting Lover' with DJ Sigala.
James delighted his fans in 2021 when he dropped a number of new tracks, including 'Medicine', 'September' and 'Emily'.
The singer's fourth studio album 'It'll All Make Sense In The End' was released on Friday 5th November 2021.
On top of that, James announced in January 2023 that not only did he have a fifth album on the way, but he was putting the finishing touches on it! Despite not letting any details slip on a release date, it certainly got fans excited for the year ahead.
On 12th May, James released a brand new single titled 'A Year Ago'. Fans were elated with new music from the singer, giving us all a taste of what to expect from him in the year ahead.
On top of teasing his fifth album, James then announced another upcoming single on 24th July. The song, which has a release date of 4th August, is called 'Blindside' and showcases a more upbeat vibe from the award-winning singer.
James took to Instagram in September 2023 to finally reveal the name and release date of his highly-anticipated fifth album. Titled 'Bitter Sweet Love', the album is due to be released on 26th January 2024.
Having failed to convince the head of his label, King Records, to record and release the performance as a live album, James Brown, a man who was famously wise to the value of a dollar, financed the Apollo recording himself. In the end, the show went off not only without a hitch, but with such success that the famously tough Apollo crowd was in a state of rapture. Released in May 1963, Live at the Apollo ended up spending an astonishing 66 weeks on the Billboard album chart and selling upwards of a million copies, giving James Brown his first smash hit album and setting him on a course for his incredible crossover success in the mid-1960s and beyond.
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