Jamie Lenman - King of Clubs (CD)

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Jamie Lenman releases a brand new mini-album of original material, King of Clubs, this September! This is a record returning Jamie back to his roots as a songwriter, whilst also allowing him to push his creative mind with it not being a full blown, full-length album.

Speaking about the upcoming album, Jamie said "I didn't want to make another full album straight after Shuffle, I wanted to give people more time to digest that, but I did want to get back to the studio fairly quickly and record something original just to remind people I'm still a songwriter first and foremost. I was wary of repeating what we'd done with (one-off single featuring Justine Jones from Employed to Serve) Long Gone coming after (2016 album Devolver), so I tried to make an EP instead of a single - but by the time I got there, I'd written so much material on the road and in rehearsals we ended up with enough for a mini album. I've always loved the format, so many of my favourite records are seven or eight tracks long, I think it's a perfect package. It's the musical version of a novella, like Conrad's Heart of Darkness or Waugh's The Loved One, which I was actually reading at the time of recording. It's a dirty, dark-sounding record based on uncomfortable, conflicting emotions."

Working again with producer Space (Idles, Black Futures), the pair came up with a word, 'neisty,' to guide them as to how it should sound - "A perfect mixture of nasty and nice. I see this record as the closing chapter in a very creative and enjoyable period working with Space - the last piece in a very loose trilogy with Devolver and Shuffle before it, white red and black. It's the angriest and most political record I've made since Muscle Memory, a painful place to be. I wouldn't have wanted to make a full album like this, I think it would have been too much."

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