Cat No:
ALTCD16
Release Date: 04 November 2016
Label: Andy Childs
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0080687335985
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Description
Belfast singer-songwriter Andy White's twelfth studio album is Imaginary Lovers, part of a twelve album box set retrospective Studio Albums 1986-2016 to be released by Floating World Records this coming October, the 30th anniversary of first album Rave On Andy White. The new album will also be available on its own, through Andy's independent label ALT Recordings.
Imaginary Lovers is, literally, the follow-up to How Things Are. Originally planned as a double, with Part 1 the break-up and Part 2 what happened next, Andy decided that the first half -- How Things Are -- was a stand-alone statement. He needed time and experience to finish writing the second half:
"Looking out of half-open hotel windows and talking in the dark. Walking with a red guitar case, hemispherically-challenged. I was pulled close and pushed away at home and abroad, and came out of the whole turbulent, exciting mess with twelve songs demanding to be finished and recorded."
It's rough and live, less polished than its predecessor, which was greeted on release in 2014 as a career highlight. There are many links between the two albums -- they feature the same musicians and were recorded in Andy's studio The Growlery -- but its edgier attitude and alternately quieter and crazier moments suit Andy's peripatetic adventures perfectly.
From the indie rock invitation of opener Half Time For You And I (a successor to Street Scenes From My Heart) and the drop-dead romance of Every Time I Look Around, to Sideways No Shadow's atmospherics, the casual intensity of Nonchalant and inclusivity of Everybody Wants Somebody, there's an immediately, attractive and challenging quality to this album. Anywhere With You Babe and Lonely International Guy strip Andy's sound back to his trademark individual take on playing acoustic guitar. And I Want You is a reminder he grew up in Belfast listening to both punk and The Beatles.
There are trademark tumbling lyrics and pop hooks galore on this album -- but needless to say, Imaginary Lovers is only the latest chapter in this Irish troubadour's very individual odyssey.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Half Time For You & I
- 2. The Girl From The Twilight Hotel
- 3. Rewriting The Rules Of Beauty
- 4. Anywhere With You Babe
- 5. Every Time I Look Around
- 6. Sideways No Shadow
- 7. Nonchalant
- 8. The Only Thing Missing Here Is You
- 9. And I Want You
- 10. You Mean Everything To Me
- 11. Lonely International Guy
- 12. Everybody Wants Somebody
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