Description
Format: Deluxe CD (Casebound w/ additional acoustic tracks)
Barcode: 4050538641028
Release Date: 30th October 2020
Genre: Indie
Deluxe CD track list:
1 Fire
2 Statues
3 Crazy Shade Of Blue
4 The Hudson
5 The Human Demands
6 We Could Be So Much more
7 Young Fire, Old Flame
8 Bridges
9 Strong Again
10 Something In Nothing
11 Bridges (Acoustic)
12 The Hudson (Acoustic)
13 Fire (Acoustic)
14 Statues (Acoustic)
15 We Could Be So Much More (Acoustic)
16 The Human Demands (Acoustic)
TIMELINE
25/09 – ‘Crazy Shade Of Blue’ DSP release
29/09 – ‘Crazy Shade Of Blue’ visualiser
27/10 – IG, Track TBC
30/10 – Album Release
w/c 16/11 TBC – Single 2 Radio service
01/03 – Single 3 radio service
OVERVIEW
Six million album sales. Four top five studio albums, two of which hit the UK number one. World tours in front of 3.3 million people. Over 200 million Spotify streams. A 2007 single, This Is The Life, that went to number one in ten countries. Fifteen years of continued international success, in which she has resolutely and unfailingly gone her own way. And now her best album yet.
The Human Demands, produced by Jim Abbiss of Arctic Monkeys / Kasabian fame, reconnects Macdonald with her alternative roots, and her ability to write classic songs that sound like they have always existed, albeit with a new, Bruce Springsteen-like widescreen grandeur and ambition that suits her powerful, resonant contralto. The album also takes on the kind of heavy themes most of us have to deal with sooner or later: falling in love, burning bridges, facing depression, growing up. All this from an acoustic guitar-playing indie rocker who only ever wanted to share a bill with Travis at Scotland’s T In The Park festival.
“Seeing Fran Healy on stage with Travis at T In The Park, in 2000 when I was 13, made me want to do this in the first place,” says Amy Macdonald, as she reflects on the way the new album has reconnected her with that magic youthful moment of excitement and discovery. “I loved the way he told stories, I loved the way he communicated not only through the music but also by connecting with the audience. In 2006 I went back and told my friend I would be up there myself one day. A year later I was playing T In The Park, and the following year I was on the main stage. It all came from that moment. The strange thing is, it now feels like I’ve gone back to that moment. Everything feels brand new, all over again.”
Full bio: https:///s/brg2jqrror3ege7/Amy%20Macdonald%20Biog2020.docx?dl=0
Awards
• 2015: Scottish Music Awards – Songwriting Award
• 2011: Echo Awards (Germany) – Best International Female
• 2011: Swiss Music Award – Best Album
• 2010: Tartan Clef Award – Best Contribution to Music
• 2009: German Echo Awards – Best Newcomer International
• 2009: Swiss Music Awards – Best International Album
• 2009: Swiss Music Awards – Best International Song
• 2008: Tartan Clef Awards – Best Newcomer
• 2008: Belgian HUMO Awards – Best International
RADIO
• ‘The Hudson’ R2 Ken Bruce first play (27/08) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m15n
• ‘The Hudson’ Spot Play /fp/amy-macdonald-announces-fifth-album-the-human-demands/
Daily Record
Glasgow Evening Times
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LIVE 2021
22/04 – AB, Brussels
23/04 – Samsung Hall, Zurich
26/04 – Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt
28/04 – Rockhal, Luxembourg
30/04 – Max-Schmelling-Halle, Berlin
02/05 – Koning Pilsner Arena, Oberhausen
03/05 – 013, Tilburg
04/05 – Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg
06/05 – Roundhouse, London
07/05 – Roundhouse, London
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