A.G. Prepare dinner publicizes new album ‘Britpop’ and shares new single that includes Charli XCX
A.G. Prepare dinner has introduced his forthcoming LP ‘Britpop’ and has shared a brand new single, which options vocals by Charli XCX.
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The album’s title monitor options XCX singing “Brit, Brit, Brit / Like Britpop” over a whimsical, pulsing beat. The track obtained its dwell debut at XCX’s Boiler Room occasion in New York Metropolis final Thursday (February 22).
Prepare dinner – producer and founding father of P.C. Music – confirmed that his third solo album ‘Britpop’ is about for launch on Could 10 through Prepare dinner’s New Alias label. You’ll be able to pre-order the LP here.
In accordance with a press launch, the album is “a three-part, 24-song odyssey by way of Prepare dinner’s bizarre, great, and wildly eclectic sonic universe, the file spans the total breadth of his agenda setting, style bending imaginative and prescient of pop.”
The album can be cut up into three chapters: ‘Previous’, ‘Current’, and ‘Future’. ‘Previous’ will encompass Prepare dinner’s basic digital fashion whereas ‘Current’ sees him channel the 90s Britpop style in its conventional sense. The ultimate chapter, ‘Future’ will encompass “his personal distinctive understanding of what the way forward for music actually means.”
‘Britpop’ was created in the course of the COVID lockdown when Prepare dinner discovered himself as the one British individual dwelling in a small city in Montana. The album was written as he completed engaged on his prior solo LP’s ‘Apple‘ and ‘7G‘ which have been each launched in 2020.
Prepare dinner just lately launched ‘Silver Thread Golden Needle’ a virtually 10-minute lengthy monitor that options sputtering and buzzing sounds in opposition to a pop beat.
Final 12 months, he teamed up with producer Easylife and Thyslaughter to launch their joint album ‘Softrock’.
The LP featured contributions from the likes of Caroline Polachek, Wolf Alice frontwoman Ellie Rowsell, Charli XCX, Alaska Reid, and the late SOPHIE.
Prepare dinner introduced that his label, PC Music, would not be releasing new music after 2023.
The label was based 2013 and upon its tenth anniversary, it shared that it’ll stop engaged on new initiatives. In a press release, Prepare dinner wrote: “After a decade of exercise, 2023 can be PC Music’s ultimate 12 months of latest releases.
He continued: “Following that, the label can be devoted to archival initiatives and particular reissues. We’ve got an undisclosed variety of new albums and singles coming very quickly.”
Throughout its decade in enterprise, PC Music launched songs by Hannah Diamond, Danny L Harle and extra, with the likes of Charli XCX, SOPHIE and Caroline Polachek all collaborating with artists on the label.
In 2022, the label launched a brand new ‘Vol. 3’ compilation that includes Charli, Polachek, Clairo and extra.The identical 12 months, PC Music hosted a particular label showcase at the newly reopened KOKO venue in London.
Again in 2020, PC Music launched a Christmas-themed album, that includes tracks from the label’s roster.
The Pop Caroler’s Songbook options contributions from Prepare dinner, Hannah Diamond, Banoffee, umru, Aaron Cartier and extra. Proceeds from the album have been directed in direction of the Trussell Belief, a charity aiming to finish starvation within the UK.
Talking concerning the legacy of PC Music, NME stated: “Constructing a group that inspired experimentation and future-facing manufacturing, the hyper-glossy ever-expanding PC world shattered conventional style requirements by melting bubblegum pop and bass with digital membership sounds.”