Paul Weller Announces New LP 'Fat Pop (Volume 1)', Airs "Cosmic Fringes" Video

Former frontman of The Jam and The Style Council, Paul Weller has announced the release of his 16th solo album  'Fat Pop (Volume 1)'.

The follow up to last year's On Sunset, will be out on May 11 via Polydor. Pre-order your copy here.

During spring last year, after his tour dates were postponed, Paul Weller needed something else to focus on. With many ideas for new songs stored on his phone, Paul started to record them on his own with just vocals, piano, and guitar which he’d send to his core band members (drummer Ben Gordelier, Steve Cradock on guitar, and bassist Andy Crofts) to add their parts. Despite it being strange not being together, it kept the wheels rolling and sanity prevailing. The band reconvened at Weller’s Black Barn studio in Surrey when restrictions were lifted to finish the work with the shape of the album becoming clear to all.

 

Fat Pop (Volume 1) – Paul adding the “Volume 1” to keep options open for a second volume in the future - is a diverse selection of sounds. No one style dominates. There’s the synth-heavy, future-wave strut of “Cosmic Fringes”, the stately balladeering of “Still Glides The Stream” (co-written with Steve Cradock), the chunky percussive groove of “Moving Canvas”(a tribute to Iggy Pop no less), and the kind of dramatic immediate pop symphonies on “Failed”, “True” and “Shades of Blue” with which Paul Weller has hooked in generation after generation of the devotee.

 

As ever, Fat Pop, sees a number of guests contributing including Lia Metcalfe, the young Liverpudlian singer with The Mysterines who combines her tremendous vocal as well as a songwriting credit to True. Andy Fairweather Low adds his distinctive vocals to superfly strutting “Testify” and Paul’s daughter Leah co-wrote and features on the classic 3-minute pop kitchen sink drama “Shades Of Blue” which will be the first single taken from the album. Hannah Peel is back in the fray adding her classic string scores to “Cobweb Connections” and “Still Glides The Stream.”

Check out the album's tracklist and the video for lead single "Cosmic Fringes" below.

Fat Pop Tracklisting:
01. Cosmic Fringes

02. True

03. Fat Pop

04. Shade Of Blue

05. Glad Times

06. Cobweb / Connections

07. Testify

08. That Pleasure

09. Failed

10. Moving Canvas

11. In Better Times

12. Still Glides The Stream

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The Charlatans Announce New Album 'Different Days' Ft. Johnny Marr, Paul Weller and More

UK band The Charlatans have announced the release of their  thirteenth studio album 'Different Days'.

The follow up to 2014's Modern Nature, will be released on May 25 through BMG, it was self produced at the band’s studio in Crewe and features contributions from Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, Kurt Wagner, New Order’s Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, crime writer Ian Rankin and writer/actress Sharon Horgan among others. Pre-order your copy here.

For this new album, the core quartet of vocalist Tim Burgess, bassist Martin Blunt, guitarist Mark Collins and keyboard player Tony Rogers opened their doors to allow an enviable cast of friends to contribute to their latest work including Pete Salisbury, the former Verve drummer Anton Newcombe from Brian Jonestown Massacre, Johnny Marr, Stephen Morris of New Order, Ian Rankin, Kurt Wagner and Paul Weller on the expansive, album finale ‘Spinning Out’.

Check out the tracklist and an intro video of the album's guest artists below.

01. Hey Sunrise (Drums Pete Salisbury, Programming Stephen Morris)
02. Solutions (Drums Stephen Morris BV’s Nik Void)
03. Different Days (Guitar Johnny Marr, BV’s Sharon Horgan)
04. Future Tense (Spoken word intro Ian Rankin)
05. Plastic Machinery (Guitar Johnny Marr & Anton Newcombe)
06. The Forgotten One (Spoken word intro Kurt Wagner)
07. Not Forgotten (Guitar Johnny Marr, Organ Anton Newcombe)
08. There Will Be Chances (Drums Pete Salisbury)
09. The Same House (Synthesiser Gillian Gilbert, Drums & Programming Stephen Morris)
10. Over Again (Percussion Donald Johnson (A Certain Ratio) BV’s Nik Void (Factory Floor)
11. Lets Go Together (Drums Pete Salisbury)
12. The Setting Sun – Instrumental
13. Spinning Out (Co written by Weller. Piano and BV’s Paul Weller)

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New Entry: Paul Weller Shares New Single "Saturns Pattern"

Paul Weller has shared his new single "Saturns Pattern".

The song is the title track of his forthcoming 12th studio album 'Saturns Pattern', which will be released on May 11 via Warner Bros. Records. Pre-order the album here.

Check out the video below.

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Watch: Paul Weller Airs Music Video For New Single "Long Time"

Paul Weller has aired the video for his newest single "Long Time".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from his forthcoming 12th studio album 'Saturns Pattern', which will be released on May 11 via Warner Bros. Records. Pre-order the album here.

Check out the video below.

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Paul Weller Announces New Album 'Saturns Pattern', Airs Video For "White Sky"

Former frontman of The Jam and The Style Council, Paul Weller has announced he will release his 12th studio album titled 'Saturns Pattern' on May 11.

The follow up to 2012's Sonik Kicks was recorded at Black Barn Studios in Surrey, produced by Jan "Stan" Kybert and features guests including The Strypes' Josh McClorey and The Jam's original guitarist Steve Brookes. It will be Weller's first album for Warner Bros. Records. 

Talking of the album's sound to Uncut magazine, Weller said: "I can't compare it to any of my other albums. I think it's different not just for me, but different from what else is around." 

Pre-order the album here, and check out the tracklist and the video for lead single "White Sky" below.

Tracklisting:
01. White Sky
02. Saturns Pattern
03. Going My Way
04. Long Time
05. Pick It Up
06. I'm Where I Should Be
07. Phoenix
08. In The Car...
09. These City Streets

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The Jam To Reissue Final Studio Album ‘The Gift’ For 30th Anniversary

The Jam will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their final studio album "The Gift" with an expansive reissue.

The legendary band's only UK number one album was a clear sign of the new directions being explored by frontman Paul Weller by the early Eighties; a desire for change which would see him ultimately quit the band and form The Style Council soon after its release in 1982.

"I was very proud of it – I thought it was another advance on what we'd done before," Weller has said of the LP.

The reissue will be out on November 19th, and is to be available in a variety of different formats which will be packed with added extras and bonus features.

Amongst these is a four-disc boxset which will coPopcomplete with a 'Live At Wembley 1982' CD as well as a compilation DVD of live performances and a Top Of The Pops appearance. A CD of alternate tracks and demos, many of them previously unreleased, is also included.

Super-deluxe boxset tracklist:

Disc One – Original album / Singles & B-Sides
1. Happy Together
2. Ghosts
3. Precious
4. Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero
5. "Trans-Global Express"
6. Running On The Spot
7. Circus
8. The Planner's Dream Goes Wrong
9. Carnation
10. Town Called Malice
11. The Gift
12. Precious (12")
13. The Great Depression
14. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
15. Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
16. Pity Poor Alfie (swing version)
17. Beat Surrender
18. Shopping
19. Move On Up
20. Stoned Out Of My Mind
21. War

Disc Two – Demos & alternate tracks
1. Skirt (demo)
2. Get Yourself Together (demo)
3. Ghosts (instrumental demo)
4.Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero (demo)
5. Running On The Spot (demo)
6. The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong (demo)
7. Carnation (instrumental demo)
8. Precious (demo)
9. The Bitterest Pill (demo)
10. Alfie (demo ‘2’)
11. We've Only Started (‘old version’)
12. Only Started (instrumental demo)
13. Shopping (AKA 'Paul's demo')
14. Beat Surrender (demo)
15. Solid Bond In Your Heart (demo)

Disc Three – Live at Wembley (Dec. 3rd 1982)
1. Start!
2. It's Too Bad
3. Beat Surrender
4. Away From The Numbers
5. Ghosts
6. In The Crowd
7. Boy About Town
8. So Sad About Us
9. All Mod Cons
10. To Be Someone
11. Smithers-Jones
12. That's Entertainment
13. The Great Depression
14. Precious
15. Move On Up
16. Circus
17. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
18. David Watts
19. Mr Clean
20. Town Called Malice
21. But I'm Different Now
22. "Trans-Global Express"
23. In The City

Disc 4 – DVD
Part 1: Trans-Global Unity Express
Part 2: The promo videos
Part 3: Danish TV special
Part 4: Top Of The Pops, February 18th 1982

Paul Weller Unveils 'Dragonfly' Video

Paul Weller has unveiled the video for latest single 'Dragonfly', the song is taken from the singer's  new studio album 'Sonik Kicks' out March 19th 2012.

Weller will perform Sonik Kicks in its entirety at The Roundhouse in London March 18 and 19.

The track is already in heavy rotation on www.koolrockradio.com

Watch it now...

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Paul Weller 'Couldn't Wait To Leave Mercury Prize 2010'

Paul Weller has revealed that he “couldn't wait to get home” after he failed to win the Mercury Prize last week.

As we all know, the Jam  former star, was one of the favourites to get The Mercury Prize with his recent album 'Wake Up The Nation' , but eventually lost out to The xx.

In an interview, Weller revealed that he went home straight after the announcement was made so he could watch TV. “I'd been there all day, being old and miserable, I couldn't wait to get home,” he said. “I thought, I've had enough of this. I wasn't doing my upset diva bit, I just wanted to go home and watch telly."

Weller also admitted that he found it “hard to get excited” about the down-tempo sound of The xx's self-titled winning album. “It's not really my sort of thing. I'm not putting them down, just because they beat me,” he added.

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