Jack Peñate today announces the release of his third album After You. Over a decade in the making, the album is set for release on Friday 29 November via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records and was produced in collaboration with Paul Epworth, Inflo and Alex Epton.
‘Murder’ is the second track to be taken from the album (following from ‘Prayer’), it’s a song of forgiveness and redemption and another indication of what to expect from the forthcoming album.
With a video directed by artistic collaborator Eddie Peake (who also created the album art) and shot on iPhone, the video was filmed in Dorset at Winspit quarry (where the stone was taken to create St. Paul’s cathedral).
Jack Peñate – ‘Murder’ (Official Video)
The journey to After You was not a straight forward one.??Ten years ago, as Peñate finished touring his second album Everything Is New, the south London born songwriter, ?best?known for his hit ‘Torn On The Platform’, walked off stage, got home and realised that he was physically unable to record another album. All he owned in the way of equipment was a small recording setup and the instruments accumulated while touring. Having spent almost a year sitting in a studio with? Paul Epworth,? Peñate was made aware that there was so much for him to learn to become self sufficient in production skill. He felt he was unable to fluently speak the language of his art form. “I wanted to be able to walk into any studio and be able to express what I wanted to achieve using the language for the technical aspects,” he says. Something clicked inside him. He knew that if he wanted to achieve longevity as an artist, he had to be able to control the audio narrative of his work.
When he walked off stage in 2009, he felt as if he had nothing left to say. But After You is rich with emotion, on top of an extra layer of sonic depth. “I didn’t want to make a record that was just words,” he says. After indulging in mind-expanding ritual, studying writer’s and poets like Hesse, Rilke and Huxley alike?and looking to mysticism and mythology for answers, he learned to find a new voice.
Former Spankrock member turned producer and jazz drummer, Alex Epton came on board and set to bring together 10 years worth of work into a cohesive album in XL’s New York studio, adding in additional programming and production as well as drums and percussion.?Paul Epworth, with whom he created Everything Is New, came back in and worked on several tracks.
If Peñate’s ambition was to be able to make a sound that sounded like a feeling felt, and to be able to master studio production, and to be able to have longevity in his career, then it’s safe to say that with After You, that ambition has been realised.
1. Prayer
2. Loaded Gun
3. Round and Round
4. Cipralex
5. Murder
6. Gemini
7. Let Me Believe
8. GMT
9. Ancient Skin
10. Swept To the Sky
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