New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) On January 14, Vagrant will release 'Post Tropical,' the second full-length, studio album by Dublin's
James Vincent McMorrow.
James will play a special, intimate pre-release show at Joe's Pub on Nov. 21 before embarking on a US tour in 2014, which will take him to some of his biggest venues to date. On January 26, McMorrow will play London's Barbican as part of a European tour. More shows will soon be announced. Watch the trailer for the new album featuring a clip of the title track, "Post Tropical," here.
Written, produced, and performed entirely by McMorrow, 'Post Tropical' was recorded on a pecan farm half a mile from the Mexican border located between El Paso and ruthless bustle of Juárez. Built up slowly and spontaneously from hundreds of non-linear sound files and lyric pages, the result is 10 stunning, meticulously crafted original songs. Its broadened horizons may come as a surprise to everyone but McMorrow himself, who has harbored a lifelong love of hip-hop and atmospheric R&B. "I wanted to give this record the feel and movement of the R&B records that I love," he says.
It's a step forward that is immediately apparent on album opener and first single "Cavalier" - a brooding twist on the Slow-Jam, which builds quietly from hushed keys and hand-claps to soaring brass, beats and McMorrow's idiosyncratic falsetto. Across the album, the sounds and melodies evolved from a painstaking process of building texture: there are 808s on the haunting "Red Dust," looped piano on "Looking Out", and 50 mandolins made to sound like a waterfall on "The Lakes."
'Post Tropical' is the follow-up to McMorrow's acclaimed 2011 debut album, 'Early in the Morning,' which Q said, "Sounds both fresh and as if [it's] been in your head forever," and earned McMorrow a #1 debut, a
Jools Holland performance, and platinum certification in Ireland. "I'm so proud of that album, but I never longed to be a guy with a guitar," says McMorrow. "The texture of this record is completely different."
