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Title: A Different Kind Of Fix
Condition: New
Format: Vinyl
EAN: 0602527773247
Edition: 12" Album
Genre: Rock/Pop
Style: Indie/Alternative
Release Date: 08/29/2011
Description: Bombay Bicycle Club release their third album, ‘A Different Kind of Fix’ on August 29th through Island Records. In a little over three years, the band will have released three LPs – an extraordinary and increasingly rare feat in the 21st century music industry. From the teenage indie kicks of their debut; to the sparse, timeless folk of last summer’s top ten album, ‘Flaws’ (nominated for an Ivor Novello Award); the quartet open a new and beguiling chapter with, ‘A Different Kind of Fix’, one that cements their place at the very forefront of British bands in 2011.Recorded in Hamburg, London and Atlanta, ‘A Different Kind of Fix’ captures the sound of a band effortlessly progressing and innovating at a startling rate. Guitars are firmly plugged back in for album number three, but added to the mix with potent results are synths, sampled loops, layered vocals from all four band members and washes of reverb throughout. Production-wise, the album reunites BBC with Jim Abbiss - who produced their debut - and also introduces them to Ben Allen – noted for his work with Animal Collective - whilst lead singer, Jack Steadman co-produces throughout. Indeed, Jack has been quietly making electronic music as a bedroom side-project for the past few years, and these sounds gently permeate throughout the rich and textured production on ‘A Different Kind of Fix’. An electric guitar album with a human heart for sure, but one with a bionic pulse.The sheer breadth of styles and range of influences on display across the record is startling. First single, ‘Shuffle’, emerges from a looped piano sample to burst forth into one the band’s biggest songs to date, as the piano loop recruits gargantuan drums and bass that march to an epic chorus on their way to a house break of Balearic proportions. Album opener, ‘How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep’ is all marble steeped vocal loops and breathy samples, which are also used to devastating effect on ‘Lights Out, Words Gone’: a song of such rarefied beauty and rhythmic hooks, one imagines a lost, codeine-fuelled Talking Heads album. ‘Take The Right One’ is the kind of timeless, life-affirming melodic fuzz rock that Alex Chilton and Teenage Fanclub have set (broken) hearts on fire with; ‘Beggars’ follows the same deft, folk path laid by ‘Flaws’ and with the Low-esque hymn, ‘Fracture’ and gorgeous album closer, ‘Still’ – just Jack, piano and an ocean of reverb - provide inlets of beatific calm amongst the album’s more widescreen rock moments, ‘Bad Timing’, ‘Leave It’ and ‘What You Want’.BBC play all major UK festivals this summer including headlining Underage Festival, headlining the second stage at Latitude, playing the Other Stage at Glastonbury and the Second stage at Reading/Leeds. A UK headline tour will be announced shortly. NOTABLE QUOTES "Album Of The Year already...they've delivered on every level" ZANE LOWE"pretty bloody brilliant, making my heart ache somewhat" FEARNE COTTON "A modern Classic" Mike Walsh XFM "An album Highlight of 2011" BBC Music BOMBAY'S FIRST NME COVER RAN ON 17TH SEPTEMBER - THEY ALSO HAD COVERS ON ARTROCKER AND ON THE FLY - PLUS FEATURES IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, INDEPENDENT AND THE MIRROR WITHIN 24HOURS OF THE WORLD EXCLUSIVE PLAY OFSHUFFLE BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB WERE TRENDING ON TWITTER AND THE SONG WAS #1 ON HYPE MACHINE
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: Bombay Bicycle Club
Type: Album
Run Time: 00:50:51
Record Label: Universal / Island
MPN: 2777324
Release Year: 2011
Tracks:
1: How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep
1: Beggars
2: Leave It
2: Bad Timing
3: Your Eyes
3: Fracture
4: What You Want
4: Lights Out, Words Gone
5: Take The Right One
5: Favourite Day
6: Still
6: Shuffle

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