BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB SHARE NEW SINGLE FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM

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THE ALBUM, MY BIG DAY, OUT OCTOBER 20, 2023 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

FEATURES GUEST APPEARANCES FROM DAMON ALBARN, JAY SOM, NILÜFER YANYA + SPECIAL GUESTS

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+ FOUR INTIMATE, ACOUSTIC UK LIVE DATES AT SECRET LOCATIONS LATER THIS MONTH 

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Bombay Bicycle Club are pleased to share the latest single from their forthcoming album, My Big Day. “Turn The World On” is streaming now. It’s vocalist Jack Steadman’s reflection on becoming a parent for the first time and the hopefulness of youth that’s reminiscent of their album Flaws in its folk sensibilities and breezy melody, but with a maturity and refinement indicative of a band creating their best work to date. 

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Bombay Bicycle Club’s sixth album, My Big Day, is released on October 20, 2023 via Arts & Crafts. It was produced by Jack Steadman at The Church Studios in North London and then back at the band’s own studio. It features an eclectic host of guest vocalists that perfectly encapsulates the breadth of the band’s widespread appeal.

Damon Albarn, Holly Humberstone, Nilüfer Yanya and Jay Som all lend their voices across the course of the record, with a fifth special guest releasing a song with the band later this Summer.

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Following a run of very special and triumphant ‘karaoke’ fan shows, Bombay Bicycle Club are now pleased to share initial details of four intimate, acoustic shows in unusual locations in association with Sofar Sounds for later this month. Whilst the specific locations of each show remains a secret, they will happen in Cardiff, Leeds, London and Brighton in September. 

Fans can enter a competition to win two tickets for the secret show of their choice when pre-ordering the new record from selected independent record shop within each city: Spillers Records (Cardiff), Crash Records (Leeds), Resident Records (Brighton), and Flashback Records (London). Full information is available at https://bombay.ffm.to/sofartour

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 INTIMATE, ACOUSTIC LIVE DATES
(w/ Sofar Sounds - Info):

19th September – Cardiff
20th September – Leeds
21st September – London
22nd September - Brighton

INSTORE/OUTSTORE UK LIVE DATES
17th October – Academy 2, Leicester (in association with Truck)
18th October – The Academy, Oxford (In association with Truck) SOLD OUT
19th October – PRYZM, London (in association with Banquet Records) *matinee SOLD OUT
19th October – PRYZM, London (in association with Banquet Records) SOLD OUT
20th October – Rough Trade East, London *matinee SOLD OUT
20th October – Rough Trade East, London SOLD OUT
21st October – Pier, Portsmouth (in association with Pie & Vinyl) SOLD OUT
22nd October – The Church, Marlborough (in association with Sound Knowledge) *Matinee acoustic
performance SOLD OUT
22nd October – Marble Factory, Bristol (in association with Rough Trade) SOLD OUT
23rd October – The Empire, Coventry (in association with HMV)
24th October – Hangar 34, Liverpool (in association with Jacaranda Records) SOLD OUT
25th October – Liquid Room, Edinburgh (in association with Assai Records) SOLD OUT
26th October – Fat Sam’s, Dundee (in association with Assai Records)

EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR
13th November – Riviera, Madrid
14th November – Sala Apolo, Barcelona
16th November – Alcatraz, Milan
17th November – Tonhalle, Munich
18th November – Docks, Lausanne
19th November – Docks, Hamburg
21st November – Trabendo, Paris
22nd November – Columbiahalle, Berlin
23rd November – Progresja, Warsaw
25th November – De Roma, Antwerp
26th November – Live Music Hall, Cologne
27th November – Melkweg, Amsterdam
28th November – Melkweg, Amsterdam


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MY BIG DAY TRACKLISTING
01 Just A Little More Time
02 I Want To Be Your Only Pet
03 Sleepless (feat. Jay Som)
04 My Big Day
05 Turn The World On
06 Meditate (feat. Nilüfer Yanya)
07 Rural Radio Predicts The Rapture
08 Heaven (feat. Damon Albarn)
09 Tekken 2
10 Diving (feat. Holly Humberstone)
11 Onward

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JOSÉ LOBO REVEALS NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING ALBUM

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JOSÉ LOBO’S DEBUT LP, IN ALL GOOD HOPE, OUT OCTOBER 27, 2023
VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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Recently, José Lobo announced his debut album, In All Good Hope, due out later this year from Victory Pool Records. Today, the singer, songwriter, and musician is sharing another new track from the LP, “Si Vale La Pena Decir Que Si”, a collaboration with Tout Feu. “For his part,” says Lobo. "his lyrics (in French) are about caring for the places we live in, and nurturing the links with people (and plants) around us" and for me, it was about saying goodbye to a relationship and repeating to myself ‘si vale la pena decir que si’ which is ‘it is worth it to say yes!’ despite the consequences. The song was inspired, created, and recorded amongst the winter mountains, sonic walls, and the Atlantic Ocean. This is the last song to be recorded on the album and to me it felt important to bring a glimpse of my most current self to this album."

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MORE ABOUT JOSÉ LOBO AND IN ALL GOOD HOPE
In All Good Hope, the debut album from singer, songwriter, and musician José Lobo, is a masterclass in intimacy, everything about it exuding a sense of closeness. From the highly personal lyrical themes and sparse, delicate instrumentation, to the singing, which sounds like a friend whispering a secret into your ear, the experience of listening to In All Good Hope is akin to entering an inner sanctum, or what Lobo aptly refers to as “a reverie of the quotidian.”

Originally hailing from Venezuela, Lobo has spent the better part of the last decade in a somewhat nomadic mode, splitting his time between his current homebase of Montreal, San  Francisco's Mission District, Paris, and also Hamilton, Ontario, where much of the album was recorded. 

Tellingly, In All Good Hope opens with a creak, perhaps an old chair or some well-worn floorboards, and easily maintains this relaxed, cozy sense of presence as Lobo weaves through these hushed, multilingual songs. The bulk of the album is centred around his nylon-string guitar and mellifluous vocal style, which is always mixed right up front, capturing every breath and nuance. The astute listener may pick up a strong scent of bossa nova, which is no accident, as Lobo developed a great love for the '60s Brazilian genre while living in the city of Belo Horizonte during his teenage years. There are also shades of Tropicalia, bossa nova's slightly more  adventurous younger sibling, and to that end, one might recall the similarly inspired singer Devendra Banhart and the warmly psychedelic ‘freak folk’ movement of the '00s, Brazilian legend Caetano Veloso, fellow nylon string player José Gonzales, Toronto-based singer and producer Sandro Perri, and contemporary Brazilian artist Rodrigo Amarante, whose solo and band work has provided deep wells of inspiration for Lobo. 

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And though the album is a veritable linguistic bouquet – sung in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English – its themes create a cohesive through line. “The album is sort of like a book of short stories,” Lobo says, “made up of day-to-day moments and observations of my surroundings.” The opening track “se deter pra entender” acts here as a prologue of sorts, asking the listener to stop and “understand that the syllables count”, while gentle cascades of harp, synth, and softly strummed guitar float beneath. For Lobo, the song – and indeed the album as a whole – is about “the weight of our words, words that remain inside us and those that exist in the world.” Written largely over the course of 2020, the songs were Lobo's “attempts to find some magic in my day-to-day life, as it became more and more routine and closed off by the pandemic.” A perfect metaphor here is the song “agujeros”, which paints a picture of Sasha the family dog, whose daily quest for little slivers of sunlight  around the house “was a fundamental part of keeping my family sane.” 

Though the album is largely a solo affair, there are key collaborators at play throughout. Lobo became familiar with Hamilton-based singer-songwriter Scott Orr through mutual appreciation and the magic of Bandcamp, and the core elements of the album were recorded at his studio, largely through a vintage 1950s ribbon microphone. Alongside Montreal-based producer Victor Zhang, Lobo fleshed out the rest of the album in his bedroom with warm, hazy synth pads, and judicious sprinklings of hand percussion, bass, flute, harp, and string arrangements. Many of these elements were recorded remotely by guest musicians from around the world, and their international provenance speaks to Lobo's years of travelling and connecting with like-minded artists. After graduating from university, Lobo lived in San Francisco's Mission District for a spell, and his time there was fruitful, leading to work in theatre penning the music for Andreina Maldonado's Our Work Our Dignity, a play exploring the realities of immigrant workers in the city. But it was his friendship with songwriter and social activist Diana Gameros that initially drew him there, and in a neat full-circle swoop, she contributes the elegant second vocal on the track “lista pa la carrera”. 

Lobo says that many of the songs were written as “an homage to the morning, my favourite time of day,” and like those slivers of sunlight that Sasha chased around the living room each day, In All Good Hope will warmly illuminate whatever situation it may occupy, making good on its title (borrowed from poet Ralph Waldo Emerson's sign-off in his letters), and Lobo's vision of “holding hands with the present”, an image he found “so soothing, but also really hard to attain”. This album will make that just a little bit easier. 

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IN ALL GOOD HOPE TRACKLIST
01 se deter pra entender
02 TBTBNM (todo bien todo bien nada mal)
03 pajarita
04 lista pa la carrera
05 abuela canta su bolero y yo la acompaño en su futuro / mi presente
06 nuevos dias
07 quiero esculpir mi vida
08 meteors
09 agujeros
10 si vale la pena decir que si

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LAL ANNOUNCE NEW LP, SPECTACULAR, SHARE FIRST SINGLE

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LAL’s eighth album and film project, SPECTACULAR, brings together amazingly talented artists whom they have worked with throughout the group’s 25 year history. Written in the second half of the pandemic, where COVID life continued up and down for two years in Toronto, LAL, (Nicholas Murray and Rosina Kazi) after 27 years of being romantic partners, decided that in order to grow and be better to each other and their music, needed to separate. 

“#CovidLife! As the pandemic ensued for two long years, taking more and more lives, forcing us inside, yet again, SPECTACULAR began its inception, in the later part of lockdown, in Toronto,” says the band. “As LAL's founding members, we found ourselves going through both public and personal changes that would ultimately lay the building blocks for us to grow as humans but also thrive as artists, and our music would never be the same again.”

Today, they are ready to share the first new single from the album, “I Pretend It’s Raining”. “Through a long pandemic, we wrote this song, and many others, to aid in dealing with the grief of loss,” says LAL. “Loss of people, strained or breaking relations, and our connections to locations and places, and these notes continue to help us celebrate life, while providing unique paths to forgiveness and self-care. 

“It's a song about the radical love and transformation after heartbreak, that allows our grief to travel through our very essence. Utilizing the plentiful small moments, we create hope and joy from the aforementioned grief, and releasing all that pure energy back into the universe, divine.”

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On SPECTACULAR, LAL says it was “born out of our time of extreme upheaval and uncertainty, forced us to work together to maintain, and transform each other as well as ourselves, for the better. Our trust in our friendship and love (though changed), had continued to move mountains, and add to the worlds we have already built to nurture and protect us for so long. The lyrics and music that came out of LAL as a result continues to manifest dreams and allow us to do what we do best. Because uplifting our love for each other, our fams and communities continue to find us strength in one another as we keep on being the artists, weirdos and people who find strength in ourselves. 

For SPECTACULAR, LAL partnered with good friend and long-time collaborator Jose Garcia-Lozano to create a ‘Part 2’ to the Meteors Could Come Down album and film, which features new and old collaborators, who are all friends. Artists such as Ange Loft, Tannis Nielsen, Sedina Fiati,  Hannia Cheng, B. Soloman, Victoria Mata, Franny Galore-Wngz, Erum Khan, Jaek Eastcott, Kai Jackman, Max Zimmerman, Gautam Pinto, Easy Life Studios, Plastique, Shireen Fahimi, Melissa Vincent, and Noel Nanton of Typotherapy Design, helped make this album and film magical. Also with Yann Gracia who conceptualized, directed, and filmed an amazing live performance video by the quartet, with support from Felix Mendelssohn.

Musicians Viktor kei, Ian de Souza, and Jonathan Adjemian added to the healing process of making this album. Jean Martin, who mixed and helped with the very new sound that Murr has created by intimate recording sessions, the sharing of files online, sampling and working with ROSINA, who wrote most of the songs by themselves, in the early morning. 

This project is only a small reflection of the underground network LAL has cultivated for over 25 years. SPECTACULAR aims to celebrate each other, and the world that we have committed to, one that embraces love, equity, community, care, grief, anger, healing, fucked-up-ness and forgiveness. 

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SPECTACULAR TRACKLIST
01 Be Gentle
02 Moments Of Release
03 Each Other
04 I Know You Fool
05 I Pretend It’s Raining
06 Spectacular
07 The Way
08 To Give Into Love

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