With his 2020 album El Dorado, also produced by Auerbach, King began recording under his own name. So I wanted there to be a sense of hope and give people a feeling that they can get through it, even though I felt it was too late for me.”Ī guitar prodigy who has been playing with his dad since he was just eight years old, King released his first album, Soul Insight, as the Marcus King Band when he was 19. “I was pretty convinced I was going to drink and drug myself to death, or another means of not being around any longer. “I really didn’t think I’d be around long enough to make another record,” King told Billboard in a candid interview. (Despite sharing surnames, Marcus's song bears no relation to Carole King's classic Tapestry track.) The son and grandson of blues guitarists, King describes his most recent album, the Dan Auerbach-produced Young Blood, as coming from a dark place. Greenville, North Carolina blues guitarist Marcus King delivered an impassioned FUV Live concert at Rockwood Music Hall back in September and the searing, hard-driving "It's Too Late" led off his set. Changes is one of five albums the band has released in 2022 alone - in addition to their troika of October albums, a double album, Omnium Gatherum, came out in April and in January, they began the year with the Butterfly 3001 remix record. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard headlined Forest Hills Stadium in October. We just didn’t know yet how to do what we wanted to do.” It was like this idea that was in our heads, but we just couldn’t reach. But when the sessions were over, it just never felt done. We recorded some of it then, including the version of ‘Exploding Suns’ that’s on the finished album. But I don’t know if we had the musical vocabulary yet to complete the idea at that time. “Every song is built around this one chord progression – every track is like a variation on a theme. "I think of Changes as a song-cycle,” says Mackenzie. And yeah, there's a little Steely Dan lurking in its DNA.Ĭhanges was originally written for a 2017 release - but as the band's Stu MacKenzie explained in a statement, something about the album wasn't quite ready. "Hate Dancin," a smooth groove of retro-Seventies soft rock and sweet falsetto, comes from Changes. The prolific Australian sextet - they've released 23 albums over the past 11 years - released three albums in October: Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, Laminated Denim, and Changes. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, "Hate Dancin" Gorillaz were at Barclays Center in October. Other album guests include Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny, and Adeleye Omotayond. Other songs released so far from Cracker Island included the title track, featuring Thundercat, "New Gold" with Tame Impala and Bootie Brown, and "Possession Island" with Beck. So there you go: 1997 was a long time ago, but at the moment it’s not." "She’d grown up and we spent time in my dream together, her as a woman. "The reason I’ve written a song about it is because I had a dream about this princess very recently," Albarn told the Los Angeles Times earlier this year. Her throne was set by the mixing board, and suddenly, at the start of "Song 2," the teenager stage-dived into the crowd. In November 1997, the then 14-year-old crown princess of Thailand attended a Blur gig. The latest track from Gorillaz' eighth album, Cracker Island, released February 24, finds Damon Albarn singing about a real-life incident. Bomba Estéreo also collaborated with Bad Bunny on "Ojitos Lindos." Earlier this year, Chao also worked with fast-rising Peruvian producer Sofia Kourtesis on the single "Estación Esperanza." "It's a song about how pain can always find its relief during difficult times and life can come back to its essential beauty," explains Bomba's founder Simon Mejia.Ĭhao visited visited the home studio of Bomba's lead singer Liliana Saumet on Colombia's Caribbean coast - and the musicians conjured this cantering duet.Ī portion of the song's royalties will be donated to Costeño Social, a school near Saumet's home. tour supporting their 2021 Grammy-nominated album, Deja. Some of the new songs you'll hear on FUV this week.Ĭolombian duo Bomba Estéreo and iconic Barcelona-based musician Manu Chao released "Me Duele" ("it hurts") back in September, just as Bomba Estéreo began their U.S.
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