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Tim Burgess announces new double album with title-track "Typical Music"

06 June 2022, 14:20 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

Tim Burgess is back with news of his upcoming double album Typical Music, and has shared the title-track to accompany the announcement.

Following the release of "Here Comes The Weekend" in April, Burgess has returned with the title-track of his 22-song double album Typical Music, which lands with a Kevin Godley-directed video.

Typical Music will follow Burgess' 2020 album I Love The New Sky, and was recorded at Wales' Rockfield Studios over 30 days with Thighpaulsandra and Daniel O’Sullivan.

Burgess said, "OK, we all know about double albums, right? Historically, they've been thought of as indulgent. But I came to the conclusion that what I was doing was the opposite of that. I wanted to give people everything that I'd done. And everything that I brought to the studio and worked on with the guys, I coloured them all in equally. Every idea was treated as if it was the best thing and had to be treated with extreme care. I wanted to give everything of myself. That was it."

"I just wanted more," Burgess continued. "I wanted to challenge us all. I wanted to do more electronic things. I wanted to expand the sound. We were limited in what we could do because of Covid, but we had orchestras in our brains. But we just did it as the three of us."

He added, "I fell in love with the world again. During Covid, I read a pile of books, got better on guitar. I had new perspective. I wanted to learn how to be Tim Burgess who makes solo records. People have a vision of me as the singer in The Charlatans. That's not going to change. Then there's me as the Twitter guy. But I just fell in love with the world again and wanted the world to take me with them."

Tracklist:

  1. Here Comes The Weekend
  2. Curiosity
  3. Time That We Call Time
  4. Flamingo
  5. Revenge Through Art
  6. Kinetic Connection
  7. Typical Music
  8. Take Me With You
  9. After This
  10. The Centre Of Me (Is a Symphony Of You)
  11. When I See You
  12. Magic Rising
  13. Tender Hooks
  14. L.O.S.T Lost / Will You Take a Look At My Hand Please
  15. A Bloody Nose
  16. In May
  17. Slacker (Than I’ve Ever Been)
  18. View From Above
  19. A Quarter To Eight
  20. Sooner Than Yesterday
  21. Sure Enough
  22. What’s Meant For You Won’t Pass By You
"Typical Music" is out now. Tim Burgess' album of the same name will arrive on 23 September via Bella Union, and is available to pre-order now. He'll play London's Lafayette on 9 November. Visit timburgessofficial.com for tickets.
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