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The 1975: Being Funny In Foreign Language

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On October 14, 2022, “Dirty Hit” label released “Being Funny in a Foreign Language”, the fifth 1975 (the) studio album. It was recorded January – May 2022, at “Electric Lady” in New York City, “Real World” in Box, Wiltshire, and was produced by Matthew Healy, George Daniel and Jack Antonoff.

Personnel:

  • Matthew Healy – vocals, guitar, piano, clavinet, drums, percussion, string arrangements, creative direction
  • Adam Hann – guitar, programming, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Ross MacDonald – bass, double bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  • George Daniel – drums, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, percussion, programming, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Jack Antonoff – guitar, piano, drums, backing vocals, violin, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, string arrangements
  • Tommy King – keyboards, synthesizers
  • BJ Burton – programming, synthesizers
  • Jamie Squire – piano, Wurlitzer, clavinet, synthesizers, organ, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Oli Jacobs – Wurlitzer
  • John Waugh – saxophone
  • Zem Audu – saxophone
  • Evan Smith – brass
  • Bobby Hawk – strings, string arrangements
  • Warren Ellis – strings, string arrangements
  • Michelle Zauner – backing vocals
  • Carly Holt – additional vocals
  • Sabrina the Teenage DJ – programming
  • Bobby Hawk – string arrangements
  • Ben Hudson – additional programming
  • BJ Burton – additional production
  • Laura Sisk – engineer
  • Oli Jacobs – engineer
  • Dom Shaw – engineer assistant
  • Katie May – engineer assistant
  • Freddy Williams – engineer assistant
  • John Rooney – engineer assistant
  • Dani Perez Carasols – engineer assistant
  • Liam Hebb – engineer assistant
  • Evan Smith – additional engineering
  • Jon Gautier – additional engineering
  • Andrew Gearhart – additional engineering
  • Dave Gross – additional engineering
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Chris Galland – mixing
  • Robin Florent – mixing assistant
  • Scott Desmarais – mixing assistant
  • Jeremie Inhaber – mixing assistant
  • Robin Schmidt – mastering
  • Samuel Burgess-Johnson – artwork, creative direction
  • Patricia Villirillo – creative direction
  • Ed Blow – creative direction
  • Samuel Bradley – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Matthew Healy and George Daniel, with co-writers as noted.

  1. The 1975 – BJ Burton, Tommy King
  2. Happiness – DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ
  3. Looking for Somebody (To Love) – Ilsey Juber, Jamie Squire
  4. Part of the Band – Jamie Squire
  5. Oh Caroline – Ilsey Juber, Jamie Squire, Benjamin Francis Leftwich
  6. I’m in Love with You – Adam Hann
  7. All I Need to Hear – Jamie Squire
  8. Wintering – Jacob Bugden
  9. Human Too – Jamie Squire, Benjamin Francis Leftwich
  10. About You
  11. When We Are Together – Rob Milton

Van Morrison: What’s It’s Gonna Take?

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On May 20, 2022, “Exile” label released “What’s It Gonna Take?”, the 43rd Van Morrison studio album. It was recorded 2021 – 2022, at “Real World Studios”, “Bath Spa Hotel”, “Richard Dunn Studio”, “Culloden Hotel”, “Hollywood Studios” and “Musicbox Studios”, and was produced by Van Morrison.

Personnel:

  • Van Morrison – vocal, electric guitar, saxophone
  • Dave Keary – acoustic guitar, lead electric guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Stuart Mcllroy – piano
  • John McCullouh – piano
  • Richard Dunn – Hammond organ, Rhodes piano, backing vocals
  • Pete Hurley – bass
  • Colin Griffin – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Eamon Ferris – drums
  • Sticky Wicket – percussion
  • Teena Lyle – bongos, congos
  • Paul O’Reilly – saxophone
  • Mike Barkley – trumpet
  • Seth Lakeman – fiddle, backing vocals
  • Crawford Bell – backing vocals
  • Jolene O’Hara – backing vocals
  • Dana Masters – backing vocals
  • Kelly Smiley – backing vocals
  • Oli Jacobs – engineer assistant
  • Katie May – engineer assistant
  • Oli Middleton – engineer assistant
  • Ben McAuley – recording, mixing
  • Tony Cousins – mastering
  • Dameon Priestly – illustration
  • Paperjam Design – design

Track listing:

 All tracks by Van Morrison.

  1. Dangerous
  2. What’s It Gonna Take?
  3. Fighting Back Is the New Normal
  4. Fodder for the Masses
  5. Can’t Go on This Way
  6. Sometimes It’s Just Blah Blah Blah
  7. Money from America
  8. Not Seeking Approval
  9. Damage and Recovery
  10. Nervous Breakdown
  11. Absolutely Positively the Most
  12. I Ain’t No Celebrity
  13. Stage Name
  14. Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas
  15. Pretending

Peter Gabriel: I/O

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On December 1, 2023, “Real World” label released “I/O”, the tenth Peter Gabriel studio album. It was recorded April 1995 – December 2022, at “Rexall Place” in Edmonton, “Real World” in Wiltshire, “British Grove” and “Copper House” in London, “High Seas” in Johannesburg, “Alfvénsalen” in Uppsala, “Fonoprint” in Bologna, and was produced by Peter Gabriel, Richard Russell and Brian Eno.

Personnel:

  • Peter Gabriel – lead, treated and backing vocals, piano, keyboards, synths, programming, percussion, manipulated charango, glass harp, orchestral arrangements, choir arrangements, design concept
  • David Rhodes – guitars, acoustic and 12 string guitars, backing vocals
  • Katie May – acoustic guitar, percussion, synths, rhythm programming, guitar effects, engineer
  • Richard Evans – mandolin, D whistle
  • Tom Cawley – piano
  • Oli Jacobs – piano, synths, programming, engineer
  • Brian Eno – synths, manipulated guitars, ukulele, percussion, bells, rhythm programming and progressing, electric worms
  • Angie Pollock – synths
  • Tony Levin – basses
  • Don-E – bass synth
  • Ron Aslan – additional synths
  • Manu Katche – drums
  • Steve Gadd – brush loop
  • Ged Lynch – percussion
  • Oli Middleton – percussion
  • Hans-Martin Buff – additional percussion, synths
  • Richard Russell – filtered percussion
  • Evan Smith – saxophone
  • Josh Shpak – trumpet
  • Paolo Fresu – trumpet
  • Linnea Olson – cello
  • Melanie Gabriel – backing vocals
  • Rioghnach Connolly – backing vocals
  • Jennie Abrahamson – backing vocals
  • Richard Chappell – programming
  • Andrew Crowley – trumpet
  • Andy Wood – tenor trombone, euphonium
  • Tracy Holloway – tenor trombone
  • Richard Henry – bass trombone
  • David Powell – tuba
  • David Pyatt, Richard Bissill – French horn
  • Eliza Marshall – flute
  • Everton Nelson, Ian Humphries, Louisa Fuller, Charles Mutter, Cathy Thompson, Natalia Bonner, Richard George, Marianne Haynes, Martin Burgess, Clare Hayes, Debbie Widdup, Odile Ollagnon – violin
  • Bruce White, Fiona Bonds, Peter Lale, Rachel Roberts – viola
  • Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey, Caroline Dale, William Schofield, Tony Woollard, Chris Allan – cello
  • Chris Laurence, Stacey Watton, Lucy Shaw – double basses
  • John Metcalfe – orchestra conductor, orchestral arrangements
  • Everton Nelson – orchestra leader
  • Ed Shearmur – orchestral arrangements
  • The Soweto Gospel Choir: Linda Sambo, Nobuhle Dhlamini, Phello Jiyane, Victoria Sithole – soprano
  • Maserame Ndindwa, Phumla Nkhumeleni, Zanele Ngwenya, Duduzile Ngomane – alto
  • George Kaudi, Vusimuzi Shabalala, Xolani Ntombela, Victor Makhathini – tenor
  • Thabang Mkhwanazi, Goodwill Modawu, Warren Mahlangu, Fanizile Nzuza – bass
  • Phello Jiyane (soprano), Duduzile Ngomane (alto), Vusimuzi Shabalala (tenor), Fanizile Nzuza (bass), Victor Makhathini (male voice Zulu improvisations), Phumla Nkhumeleni (female ululating and chanting) – soloist
  • Bongani (Honey) Ncube – musical director, vocal arrangements
  • Cecilia Rydinger – conductor, choir arrangements
  • Dom Shaw – choir arrangements, engineer assistant
  • Richard Chappell – pre-production engineer
  • Lewis Jones – engineer
  • Jacques Du Plessis – engineer
  • John Foyle – engineer
  • Erland von Heijne – engineer
  • Antonello D’Urso – engineer
  • Faye Dolle – engineer assistant
  • Tom Coath – engineer assistant
  • Luie Stylianou – engineer assistant
  • Tchad Blake – mixing
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Hans-Martin Buff – Dolby Atmos mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Nadav Kander – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Peter Gabriel.

“I/O” digital and CD version track listing (Bright-Side Mix)

  1. Panopticum
  2. The Court
  3. Playing for Time
  4. I/O
  5. Four Kinds of Horses
  6. Road to Joy
  7. So Much
  8. Olive Tree
  9. Love Can Heal
  10. This Is Home
  11. And Still
  12. Live and Let Live

Elbow: Giants of All Sizes

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On October 11, 2019, “Polydor” label released “Giants of All Sizes”, the eighth Elbow studio album. It was recorded 2018 – 2019, at “Clouds Hill” in Hamburg, “The Dairy” in Brixton, “604 Studios” in Vancouver, “Blueprint Studios” in Salford, and was produced by Craig Potter.

Personnel:

  • Guy Garvey – vocals, string arrangements, art direction
  • Craig Potter – keyboards, mixing, art direction
  • Mark Potter – guitars, art direction
  • Pete Turner – bass guitar, art direction
  • The Plumedores (Dean Casement, Andy Hargreaves, Danny McTague, Mark Potter, Mat Skinner) – vocals
  • Nathan “Nathan Sudders” Sudders – vocals
  • Jesca Hoop – additional vocals
  • Chilli Chilton – backing vocals
  • Sarah Field – trumpet, soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Alex Reeves – drums, percussion
  • Matt Robertson – string arrangement
  • Marius de Vries – string arrangements
  • Violeta Barreña – violin
  • The Hallé Orchestra – strings
    • Jonathan Heyward – conductor
    • Sarah Ewins, Nicola Clarke, Zoe Coleman, Peter Liang, Michelle Marsh, Steven Proctor – first violin
    • Rosemary Attree, Paulette Bayley, Elizabeth Bosworth, Helena Buckie, Philippa Heys, John Purton – second violin
    • Cameron Campbell, Chris Emerson, Julian Mottram, Timothy Pooley – viola
    • Dale Culliford, Jane Hallett, David Petri, Clare Rowe, Nick Trygstad, Simon Turner – cello
    • Daniel Storer, Yi Xin Salvage – double bass
  • Danny Evans – engineer
  • Tom Baird – additional engineering
  • Sebastian Muxfeldt – additional engineering
  • Pedro Dzelme – engineer assistant
  • Charlie Leake – engineer assistant
  • Gary Hadfield – engineer assistant
  • Katie May – engineer assistant
  • Ollie Middleton – engineer assistant
  • Ian Stewart – engineer assistant
  • VGC – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Guy Garvey, all music by Guy Garvey, Craig Potter, Mark Potter and Pete Turner.

  1. Dexter & Sinister
  2. Seven Veils
  3. Empires
  4. The Delayed
  5. White Noise White Heat
  6. Doldrums
  7. My Trouble
  8. On Deronda Road
  9. Weightless