Graham Coxon is set to release his new Krautrock inspired album ‘A + E’ on April 2nd.
Graham Coxon’s solo career has been a fascinating – if unpredictable – journey. Releasing a string of scratchy, awkward LPs indebted to American indie rock the guitarist suddenly unleashed his pop touch on ‘Happiness In Magazines’.
2009’s ‘The Spinning Top’ found the guitarist indulging his love of Freak Folk, before the Blur re-union intervened.
Now Graham Coxon has confirmed that he had completed work on his new solo album. ‘A + E’ will be released on April 2nd, with Parlophone stepping in to nurse the material into the public domain.
Produced by Ben Hillier, the new material is apparently steeped in Krautrock and post-punk abstraction. Two quotes from Graham Coxon to illuminate the album: “Improvisations, experiments in beats, rhythms. A chance to uninhibitedly make some sort of perversely sad, danceable and funny and despondent songs.”
“I didn’t want to get caught up in my usual struggle with trying to make things sound really posh. I didn’t want lovely 60s-sounding drums and valves.”
Graham Coxon is set to release ‘A + E’ on April 2nd. Tracklisting:
1. Advice
2. City Hall
3. What’ll It Take
4. Meet+Drink+Pollinate
5. The Truth
6. Seven Naked Valleys
7. Running For Your Life
8. Bah Singer
9. Knife In The Cast
10. Ohh, Yeh, Yeh
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Meanwhile, Graham Coxon has also scheduled a full UK tour. In a nice twist, the guitarist will source local bands to play support slots – dates are as follow…
April
13 Oxford Academy
15 Gateshead Sage
16 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
17 Glasgow Garage
19 Manchester Sound Control
20 Sheffield Leadmill
21 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
23 Brighton Concorde
24 Cambridge Junction
25 London Forum
27 Gloucester Guildhall
28 Bristol Trinity
29 Exeter Phoenix
30 Falmouth Princess Pavilions
