Modern English have formally announced their new comeback album, 1 2 3 4, out February 23rd. As a preview, the British rockers have shared the latest single, “Not My Leader.”
1 2 3 4 marks the band’s first album of new material in eight years and was produced by Mario J. McNulty. Mixed and mastered at Abbey Road by Cenzo Townsend, the 10-track effort revisits themes from their ’80s LPs After the Snow and Ricochet Days, like the environment, aging, failed relationships, and love.
Meanwhile, songs like “Not My Leader” are a scorching indictment of modern politics in the US and UK. “It’s like you’ve never tried,” vocalist Robbie Grey sings. “Just to stop the lies/ You’re just wasting all our time.” Stream the single below.
In a statement, Grey explained the inspiration for the track. “I remember first coming to America in the early ’80s,” he said. “We...
1 2 3 4 marks the band’s first album of new material in eight years and was produced by Mario J. McNulty. Mixed and mastered at Abbey Road by Cenzo Townsend, the 10-track effort revisits themes from their ’80s LPs After the Snow and Ricochet Days, like the environment, aging, failed relationships, and love.
Meanwhile, songs like “Not My Leader” are a scorching indictment of modern politics in the US and UK. “It’s like you’ve never tried,” vocalist Robbie Grey sings. “Just to stop the lies/ You’re just wasting all our time.” Stream the single below.
In a statement, Grey explained the inspiration for the track. “I remember first coming to America in the early ’80s,” he said. “We...
- 1/19/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Modern English will release a new LP, 1 2 3 4, on Feb. 23. The release marks the British group’s first new music in eight years and was produced by Mario J. McNulty. They’ve previewed the album with a searing new single, “Not My Leader,” which takes aim at political leaders on both sides of the pond.
“I remember first coming to America in the early-’80s,” singer/guitarist Robbie Grey explained in a statement. “We had Margaret Thatcher and you had Ronald Reagan. And then fast forward to...
“I remember first coming to America in the early-’80s,” singer/guitarist Robbie Grey explained in a statement. “We had Margaret Thatcher and you had Ronald Reagan. And then fast forward to...
- 1/19/2024
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Modern English have released their latest single, “Crazy Lovers,” from their forthcoming album 1 2 3 4.
Pairing a soundscape of guitars and keyboards with a mid-tempo beat, “Crazy Lovers” is colored by its new wave arrangement, which manages to evoke the nostalgia of the band’s early days while staying fresh. Lyrically, the tune describes getting lost in the whirlwind of life and love, building into the refrain: “You crazy lovers you step above us/ I still don’t know what time it is I still don’t know what day it is/ And then we listen to sound it all goes round and round.”
Modern English recorded 1 2 3 4 with producer Mario J. McNulty, and according to the band’s Robbie Grey, McNulty was the secret ingredient for “Crazy Lovers.” “Originally it was a very slow song that the producer Mario J McNulty suggested we speed right up,” Grey said. “It was a great...
Pairing a soundscape of guitars and keyboards with a mid-tempo beat, “Crazy Lovers” is colored by its new wave arrangement, which manages to evoke the nostalgia of the band’s early days while staying fresh. Lyrically, the tune describes getting lost in the whirlwind of life and love, building into the refrain: “You crazy lovers you step above us/ I still don’t know what time it is I still don’t know what day it is/ And then we listen to sound it all goes round and round.”
Modern English recorded 1 2 3 4 with producer Mario J. McNulty, and according to the band’s Robbie Grey, McNulty was the secret ingredient for “Crazy Lovers.” “Originally it was a very slow song that the producer Mario J McNulty suggested we speed right up,” Grey said. “It was a great...
- 11/19/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Modern English are officially making a comeback with the song “Long in the Tooth,” their first new music since 2016. It’s the lead single from the British rockers’ previously-announced upcoming album 1 2 3 4.
We mean this as a compliment: “Long in the Tooth” sounds like it could be a few decades old, recalling the scrappy, melodic post-punk of Modern English’s 1981 debut album Mesh & Lace. It’s a retrospective track that attempts to reckon in the grey area between getting older and wiser, but still feeling a bit lost: “I know something/ It might be nothing/ I know something that you don’t know,” singer Robbie Grey chants.
“Modern English and its journey, both musical and personal, has spread over 40+ years, and ‘Long in the Tooth’ is a song about this part of that journey,” Grey explains in a press release. “As we have reached out into the world and all...
We mean this as a compliment: “Long in the Tooth” sounds like it could be a few decades old, recalling the scrappy, melodic post-punk of Modern English’s 1981 debut album Mesh & Lace. It’s a retrospective track that attempts to reckon in the grey area between getting older and wiser, but still feeling a bit lost: “I know something/ It might be nothing/ I know something that you don’t know,” singer Robbie Grey chants.
“Modern English and its journey, both musical and personal, has spread over 40+ years, and ‘Long in the Tooth’ is a song about this part of that journey,” Grey explains in a press release. “As we have reached out into the world and all...
- 9/12/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Iggy Pop premiered a new version of David Bowie’s cover of “Bang Bang” on his BBC Radio 6 show “Iggy Confidential” Friday.
“Bang Bang” originally debuted on Iggy Pop’s 1981 album Party, and Bowie covered the track on his 1987 record Never Let Me Down. The revamped version can be heard at the 1:38:30 mark of “Iggy Confidential.” After playing the song, Iggy Pop said he “thought it was a really good reading of the lyric.”
The revamped version of Bowie’s “Bang Bang” cover will appear on the...
“Bang Bang” originally debuted on Iggy Pop’s 1981 album Party, and Bowie covered the track on his 1987 record Never Let Me Down. The revamped version can be heard at the 1:38:30 mark of “Iggy Confidential.” After playing the song, Iggy Pop said he “thought it was a really good reading of the lyric.”
The revamped version of Bowie’s “Bang Bang” cover will appear on the...
- 9/29/2018
- by Ilana Kaplan
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie’s “Beat of Your Drum” is reworked into bruising, majestic art-rock in a 2018 mix of the track. The new version appears on the Loving the Alien (1983-1988) box set, a collection of Bowie’s studio and live albums from that era.
Sawing strings and David Torn’s crashing guitars highlight the cut, which originally appeared on Bowie’s 1987 LP, Never Let Me Down. “Torn’s ambient guitars start the song that now lead into a much darker world than its shiny predecessor,” producer Mario McNulty said in a statement,...
Sawing strings and David Torn’s crashing guitars highlight the cut, which originally appeared on Bowie’s 1987 LP, Never Let Me Down. “Torn’s ambient guitars start the song that now lead into a much darker world than its shiny predecessor,” producer Mario McNulty said in a statement,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie‘s five-decade career went through so many extreme highs and bizarre lows that pinpointing his single worst album may seem like a difficult task. To the singer himself, though, it was quite easy. “My nadir was Never Let Me Down,” he said in 1995. “It was such an awful album. … I really shouldn’t have even bothered going into the studio to record it. In fact, when I play it, I wonder if I did sometimes.”
The 1987 record, packed with cheesy drum machines and synths that would sound painfully...
The 1987 record, packed with cheesy drum machines and synths that would sound painfully...
- 7/24/2018
- by Kory Grow and Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The upcoming David Bowie box set Loving the Alien (1983 – 1988) has revealed its newly revamped take on “Zeroes,” a track off the full-album “2018 version” rerecording of the late icon’s 1987 LP Never Let Me Down.
Prior to his January 2016 death, Bowie expressed a desire to rerecord Never Let Me Down, “a bitter disappointment” as he called it, with less-dated production and instrumentation; this version of “Zeroes” strips off the Eighties synths and gated drum sound and fills in the void with newly recorded guitar work while keeping Bowie’s original vocal track intact.
Prior to his January 2016 death, Bowie expressed a desire to rerecord Never Let Me Down, “a bitter disappointment” as he called it, with less-dated production and instrumentation; this version of “Zeroes” strips off the Eighties synths and gated drum sound and fills in the void with newly recorded guitar work while keeping Bowie’s original vocal track intact.
- 7/23/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Parlophone Records announced Wednesday that “David Bowie: Loving the Alien 1983-1988,” the fourth in its series of boxed sets compiling the late artist’s work from 1969, will be released on Oct. 12. The era was Bowie’s most commercially successful period and includes the hit albums “Let’s Dance” and “Tonight.”
The 11 CD/15 LP set follows the formidable collections “Five Years (1969-1973),” “Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976),” and “A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982).”
It also includes a near-complete re-recording of Bowie’s 1987 album “Never Let Me Down,” which he’d often said he wanted to re-do, overseen by producer / engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by longtime Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), and Tim Lefebvre (bass), as well as string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on “Shining Star (Makin’ My Love).”
It...
The 11 CD/15 LP set follows the formidable collections “Five Years (1969-1973),” “Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976),” and “A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982).”
It also includes a near-complete re-recording of Bowie’s 1987 album “Never Let Me Down,” which he’d often said he wanted to re-do, overseen by producer / engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by longtime Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), and Tim Lefebvre (bass), as well as string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on “Shining Star (Makin’ My Love).”
It...
- 7/19/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
David Bowie‘s mid-Eighties career will be explored in the new box set Loving the Alien (1983-1988), a massive collection that gathers the late icon’s albums, live LPs and more from the era.
The 11-cd or 15-lp Loving the Alien, due out October 12th, features three Bowie studio albums – 1983’s Let’s Dance, 1984’s Tonight and 1987’s Never Let Me Down – alongside a pair of first-time-on-vinyl live albums – Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) and Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87) – and the newly assembled compilation Dance, which collects 12 contemporaneous remixes from the era.
The 11-cd or 15-lp Loving the Alien, due out October 12th, features three Bowie studio albums – 1983’s Let’s Dance, 1984’s Tonight and 1987’s Never Let Me Down – alongside a pair of first-time-on-vinyl live albums – Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) and Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87) – and the newly assembled compilation Dance, which collects 12 contemporaneous remixes from the era.
- 7/19/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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