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THE BLOW MONKEYS:
‘FEELS LIKE A NEW MORNING’
RELEASED MONDAY, April 29th 2013
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“When the band got back together I always thought it might take three albums to hit our stride. We had to show people we were serious about making new music and not being some ‘nostalgia act”. I know there can be a lot of prejudice against bands reforming but it was always about making new music and this is the band I want to make new music with. We planned to put it out on our own but then Cherry Red who were re-issuing our back catalogue asked about doing a new one. I was overjoyed to be working with a proper ‘music’ label - people who understood and loved music” – Robert Howard, December 2012
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THE BLOW MONKEYS are to release FEELS LIKE A NEW MORNING, their third album of new material since re-convening in 2008, on this coming Monday, April 29th 2013, on the Cherry Red label.
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Few artists who have been doing what they’ve been doing as long as Robert Howard genuinely make the best music of their career; but both he and the Blow Monkeys on Feels Like A New Morning inhabit a refreshed, creative atmosphere, suffused with a desire to inspire that produces some frequently dazzling musical gear shifts, underpinning a set of sharply-crafted and mature songs that will not only thrill those who are already on the BM bus, but will also surprise those that thought they may have had the band neatly bagged and labelled.
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Recorded and mixed at Bethesda Studios, North Wales, in a whirlwind eight days (as Howard says??? “It shows in a good way - no needless tinkering”), Feels Like A New Morning navigates an assured path that balances thoughtful lyricism to just the right amount of studio polish and a winning combo feel. |
