Filed under: news, trouser press | Tags: 2009, alan pedder, dot allison, music, paul weller, pete doherty
New album features duets with Paul Weller and Pete Doherty
Dot Allison has been quietly prolific these past few years. With her long-awaited solo comeback Exaltation Of Larks still relatively fresh in the memory, news of a follow-up has come as nice surprise this morning as the Scottish singer prepares to self-release her fourth studio album, Room 7½, on September 7th. Having worked with Massive Attack, Death In Vegas, My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, and appeared on tribute albums to Scott Walker (at his personal request, no less) and Daniel Johnston, her career has always been dotted with connections, and in recent years she has often been mentioned in the same breath as Pete Doherty, collaborating and touring with the tabloid favourite and his band Babyshambles. In fact, Dot and Pete recorded an entire album of duets a while back, but the release got shelved.
One of those songs, ‘I Wanna Break Your Heart’, has nevertheless surfaced on Room 7½ and was recently described by the NME as a paean to Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, while another Dot/Doherty cowrite ‘Portrait Of The Sun’ rounds out the tracklist. First single ‘Love’s Got Me Crazy’ (out September 14th) was co-written with Paul Weller, and features the Jam man on vocals. The 11-song album also includes Dot’s cover Scott Walker’s ‘Montague Terrace (In Blue)’ from his 1967 solo debut Scott. Room 7½ was co-produced by Dot and longtime PJ Harvey cohort Rob Ellis, with guest appearances from ex-Bad Seed Mick Harvey, Biffy Clyro’s James Johnston and Terry Edwards of The Scapegoats. It was mixed at Paul Weller’s Black Barn studio.
Filed under: news, trouser press | Tags: alan pedder, amy millan, amy winehouse, bryan ferry, diane cluck, drew barrymore, ellen page, fred falke, gucci, jimmy fallon, juliette lewis, kish mauve, kylie minogue, laura nyro, marcia gay harden, moloko, music, news, pete doherty, róisín murphy, stars, the long blondes, the pipettes, vodafone live music awards
in today’s trouser press:
– listen to new Diane Cluck songs. Lots of them!
– remix The Pipettes for upcoming tour CD
– new Stars EP out to download from tomorrow
– Róisín Murphy teams up with Gucci, covers Bryan Ferry
– The Long Blondes to release singles compilation
– lovely new Laura Nyro reissues have bonus tracks galore
– Juliette Lewis to co-host Vodafone Live Music Awards
– Kish Mauve set out to make it on their own
– Amy Winehouse pulls a Pete in Paris
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It’s been quite a while since we heard any new Diane Cluck recordings but our hopes for a new album were unexpectedly given a boost this weekend when we found out that Diane recently played on genius US radio show Phoning It In, literally phoning in nine songs from her home in Stone Mountain, GA. New song titles include ‘Goodless & Badless World’, ‘Cummed Out’, ‘All One Thing’, ‘Hai’, ‘Not Afraid To Be Kind’ and ‘My Right To Lose My Life’. Want to hear it? Hell, you can own it. For free. Download the show here. Or stream it here, whatever. Enjoy! (And check out the archive for other performances by the likes of Laura Veirs, Petra Haden and many many more)
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