The Charlatans - Who We Touch

With a career that has already spanned two decades, The Charlatans - Martin Blunt (bass), Jon Brookes (drums), Tim Burgess (vocals), Mark Collins (guitar) and Tony Rogers (keyboards) - release their new album ‘Who We Touch’, on September 6th 2010. Their eleventh studio album, ‘Who We Touch’ was produced by Youth (Paul McCartney, Primal Scream and The Verve) and was recorded at Britannia Row in London, on the desk that New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ was recorded on. Featuring eleven tracks, the album must surely rank as their boldest to date radically broadening, in places, their aesthetic remit. It is, says Burgess, “a soulful voyage”, a journey through moods uplifting and profound, dark and delirious, ultimately concluding in blissful optimism. Its sound is inspired by many heroes, yet always sounds like no-one other than The Charlatans themselves. Opener, ‘Love Is Ending’, is the first single to be taken from the album, released on August 2nd.  ‘Oh!’ is a beautiful song of reconciliation, as complex as its shifting time signatures (one section is in 3/4 waltz time), and then ‘You Can Swim’, an exquisite ooze of ambience, reminiscent of ‘Another Green World’-era Eno, with whose creative ideas the album began. Lurking at the end of the album is hidden track ‘I Sing The Body Eclectic’ featuring Crass’s Penny Rimbauld on vocals. Gee Vaucher who did the iconic artwork for all of Crass’s releases, also provides ‘Who We Touch’ with it’s eerie collaged cover image.

Tracklisting:

1. Love Is Ending
2. My Foolish Pride
3. Youre Pure Soul
4. Smash The system
5. Intimacy
6. Sincerity
7. Trust In Desire
8. When I Wonder
9. Oh
10. You Can Swim
Plus hidden tracks:
11. On The Threshold
12. Sing The Body Eclectic

Special Edition additional tracks:

1. Love Is Ending (Early Version. Recorded and Mixed at Big Mushroom)*
2. Intimacy (Early Version. Recorded and Mixed at Big Mushroom)*
3. Smash The System (Early Version. Recorded and Mixed at Big Mushroom)*
4. These Things (Studio Out-take. Recorded at Big Mushroom, additional recording at real World Bath, mixed at Real World, Bath) **
5. Your Pure Soul (Early Version. Recorded at Tony's Home Studio Mixed at Big Mushroom)*
6. Sincerity (Early Instrumental Version. Recorded and mixed at Big Mushroom)*
7. Trust In Desire (Alternate Take. Recorded at State Of The Ark, London. Mixed at CBS Studios, Bath)***
8. My Foolish Pride (Early Version. Recorded and Mixed at Big Mushroom)*
9. Lips That Would Kiss (Early version. Recorded and mixed at Big Mushroom)*
10. Who We Touch Don’t Mind (Studio Out-take. Recorded and mixed at Big Mushroom)*
11. Don't Know Where Or When (Studio Out-take. Recorded at State Of The Ark,London. Mixed at Waterfront Studios, Hudson NYC)
12. Intimacy (Alternate Mix. Recorded at Britannia Row,London Mixed at CBS Studios Bath)***
13. Throbbing Genesis (Studio Out-take. Recorded and mixed at Big Mushroom)*

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