Albert Hammond Jr – “Melodies on Hiatus” (Released 23rd June 2023)

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//Red Bull Records//

£24.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Indies Exclusive, Yellow/Green/Black Coloured Vinyl

£24.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Magenta/Orange/Black Splattered Coloured Vinyl

His 5th solo record is a 19-track album, crafted in a most experimental style.

Albert teamed up with his writing partner, Canadian songwriter, and poet Simon Wilcox (whom he never met during the process) and had lengthy conversations via the telephone; Simon would jot down notes from Albert’s stream of consciousness, and draft the lyrics on her typewriter, and drop them into his letterbox! Albert then added the lyrics to the melodies he had already crafted. The songwriting process became a long distant “anonymous love affair of ideas & lyrics.” The album covers themes of childhood, surviving adolescence, adulthood, vulnerability, fame, relationship with self and others, and is Albert’s “deconstructed broken down ego reaction” to “Francis Trouble.”

Tracklisting:

1. 100-99 (feat. Goldlink)
2. Downtown Fred
3. Old man darlin’
4. Thoughtful distress (feat. Matt Helders & Steve Stevens)
5. Libertude
6. Memo of hate
7. Home again
8. I got you
9. Caught by night
10. Dead air
11. One chance
12. Remember (feat. Rainsford)
13. 818
14. Fast kitten
15. I’d never leave
16. Never stop
17. False alarm
18. Alright tomorrow (feat. Rainsford)