NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ EMI Music) - After an amazing 2009 where we saw big hits from EMI artists such as Alice In Chains, Lily Allen,
David Guetta, Norah Jones, Snoop Dogg, Jamie T,
30 Seconds To Mars and
Robbie Williams amongst others, 2010 looks set to be another fantastic year for EMI. Please scroll down below for what you can expect from EMI artists in the New Year�
Peter Gabriel - 'Scratch My Back' - 15 February 2010
Early on in the New Year Virgin Records are proud to release the new album project from by Peter Gabriel titled 'Scratch My Back.'
'Scratch My Back' is the first part of a series of song exchanges in which Gabriel and other leading artists reinterpret each other's songs. The album features interpretations of tracks originally by Radiohead, Neil Young, Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Bon Iver and many more.
Gabriel enlisted former Durutti Column member John Metcalfe as composer and arranger, and the expertise of producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd's 'The Wall', Lou Reed's 'Berlin'), as well as engineer, mixer and producer Tchad Blake (Suzanne Vega, Sheryl Crow, Tom Waits).
Gabriel describes 'Scratch My Back' as a very personal record, with twelve songs performed only with orchestral instruments and voice. He made the choice not to include any guitars or drums. The album's richly diverse sounds include the sparse romance of Lou Reed's 'The Power of the Heart', the powerful musical journey of Elbow's 'Mirrorball' and an epic arrangement of Arcade Fire's 'My Body Is A Cage.'
Massive Attack - 'Heligoland' - 8 February 2010 (UK) / 9 February 2010 (US)
Also out in February 2010 is the highly anticipated release of Massive Attack's fifth studio album. 'Heligoland' will be released via Virgin Records on 8 February 2010 in the UK and on 9 February in the US.
The much anticipated new album will feature an all star cast of guest vocals from Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe. Damon also plays bass on ''Flat Of The Blade' and keyboards on 'Splitting The Atom' while Portishead's Adrian Utley plays guitar on 'Saturday Come Slow'. The band also collaborated with DFA's Tim Goldsworthy on selected tracks.
Goldfrapp - 'Head First' - 23 March 2010
The following month sees the mighty return of Mute artists Goldfrapp, who like Massive Attack, will also be releasing their fifth studio album.
The band will release the first single from the album, 'Rocket', on the 9 March 2010. The album 'Head First' follows on the 23 March 2010.
The album was recorded throughout the UK in 2009, and tour to support the album is pencilled in for 2010.
Liars - 'Sisterworld' - 9 March 2010
Goldfrapp's Mute label-mates Liars will also be releasing their fifth studio album in March, with 'Sisterworld' being released on the 9 March 2010.
'Sisterworld', the follow up to 'Liars' (2007), was written and recorded in Los Angeles by Liars and Tom Biller, and is the first Liars album to be wholly recorded in the USA since 2004's 'They Were Wrong, So We Drowned'.
The opening track on 'Sisterworld', 'Scissor', is currently being given away by Liars as a taster for the new album via a download on their website www.thesisterworld.com
Corinne Bailey Rae - 'The Sea' - 1 February 2010
Corinne Bailey Rae is set to release her new studio album, 'The Sea', via EMI on 1 February 2010. Early reviews of the album are already hailing it as one of the must have releases of next year.
The first single to be taken from the album, titled 'I'd Do It All Again', will be released on the same day.
Corinne started work on the album back in 2007 after a whirlwind two years that saw her go from unknown Leeds singer-songwriter to multi-platinum international fame. The tragic loss of her husband in 2008 led her to take a complete break and it was almost 12 months later that she began work again.
'The Sea' is a defining record for Corinne as she breaks boundaries and moves into different musical realms. The LP is set to be one of the albums of 2010 with early listeners citing Curtis Mayfield, Jeff Buckley, Stevie Wonder, Bjo"rk, Marvin Gaye, Radiohead, Nina Simone and Pink Floyd as influences but with a unique touch which is all her own.
Corinne has announced that she will be performing at the 02 Shepard's Bush Empire in London on 24 February 2010.
Hot Chip - 'One Life Stand' - 8 February 2010
The new album from the awesome Hot Chip will be released on the 8 February 2010 via Parlophone. A UK tour to support the album starts in Glasgow on 12 February 2010.
'One Life Stand' is a full-blooded leap into the unknown, an album that is awash with Hot Chip's trademark creative bravery and a searing emotional intensity from first track to last. Indeed, 'One Life Stand' is by far and away Hot Chip's most complete body of work to date, an album that is more cohesive and more soulful than 2007's ambidextrous 'Made In The Dark' and more ambitious than 2005's Mercury nominated and Grammy award winning 'The Warning'. 'One Life Stand' is an album that establishes Hot Chip as one of the most relevant and creative bands of our era.
The first single to be taken from the album, also titled 'One Life Stand', is out now.
Jo'nsi - 'Go' - TBC
One half of Jo'nsi & Alex, who released the beautiful 'Riceboy Sleeps' in 2009, and the frontman of Iceland's Sigur Ro's, Jo'nsi goes it alone on his solo album 'Go', to be released in early 2010.
"I started out trying to make a low-key, acoustic album, but somewhere along the line it just sort of exploded," says Jo'n Thor Birgisson by way of explaining the unexpected trajectory of his first solo album. "I have written many, many songs over the years that didn't fit the band, and I put them away in different folders - electronic, acoustic, ambient, pop - for future projects. If I'd known this album was going to end up the way it has I might have drawn from some more categories,"
All the album's arrangements are by Nico Muhly, the Philip Glass prote'ge' known for his work with Bjork, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Antony & the Johnsons and Grizzly Bear.
"Nico and I met and in the first night we came up with five separate arrangements. We just talk about a song - "build a fairytale garden full of birds and animals" - Nico plays some chords and something amazing happens. He is free and spontaneous and unafraid of throwing stuff away, which I really like. So much happens just by accident."
You Me At Six - 'Hold Me Down' - 11 January 2010
You Me At Six look set to cement their rise from underground heroes to mainstream success with the release of their second album 'Hold Me Down' on Virgin Records. 'Hold Me Down' is the follow up to their 2008 debut 'Take Off Your Colours.'
'Hold Me Down' finds the Surrey quintet fulfilling their potential with a collection of soaring hooks and irresistible melodies. It captures You Me At Six's live exuberance with 'Playing The Blame Game' breaching the gap between pop-punk energy and the snappy immediacy of new wave, while 'Safer To Hate Her' alternates between a tender, melancholic riff and a fiercely defiant chorus. But 'Hold Me Down' demonstrates that the band aren't reliant on pure energy as closing track 'Fireworks' escalates from its initial reflective tone into a soaring conclusion. The album also highlights a guest appearance from Kids In Glass Houses vocalist Aled Phillips on 'Trophy Eyes.'
The album was produced by John Mitchell (Funeral For A Friend, Enter Shikari, Architects) and Matt O'Grady (The Blackout, Hexes), and mastered by Bob Ludwig (Radiohead, Coldplay, Pearl Jam).
Also keep an ear out in 2010 for��.
�..A new album by LCD Soundsystem. Taster single 'Bye Bye Bayou' was released in November 2009, click here to listen.
�..Up and coming young artist Eliza Doolittle. "Every song is an individual song," she says of her debut album, recorded in Brixton, south London over the past year with writer/producers Craigie Dodds (xx) and Johnny Dollar (xx). "And the sound is just really happy and summery and light and breezy, but with thoughtful lyrics." The Eliza Doolittle EP was released in November 2009. Listen to it in full on EMI.com now.
��Hot new artist Tinie Tempah. Tinie recently toured with N-Dubz and you can catch him live around the UK in February. Click here for tour details.
�.New EMI artists Professor Green, Chiddy Bang and Sky Ferrera, as well as new releases from established EMI artists such as KT Tunstall, Laura Marling, Kylie, Chemical Brothers, Deadmau5, The Kooks and Richard Ashcroft.
