JAMES RELEASE NEW ALBUM YUMMY
INSTORE SIGNINGS IN LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER AND LONDON
“Yummy? It’s tasty, tasty, very, very tasty …” CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE
“A cinematic epic with diamond-glistening synthesisers …” UNCUT MAGAZINE
“James sound like a band bursting with life …” RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE
“Insects, conspiracy theories and sex; business as usual for the shamanic Mancs …” MOJO MAGAZINE
“James return with Yummy, their delicious eighteenth studio album, one of the strongest collections of their career …” LOUDER THAN WAR
JAMES have released their new album, YUMMY, available now on all DSPs and physical formats via Virgin Music.
Yummy is the band’s 18th studio album and was produced by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Jon Hopkins, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor) and mixed by Cenzo Townsend (Courteeners, The Specials, Everything Everything). The album artwork has been directed and designed by Studio Fury whose previous work includes the campaign for the latest Rolling Stones album, Hackney Diamonds.
A quintessential James album, Yummy is comforting yet adventurous, electronic yet human, dark yet life-affirming, experimental yet familiar, and heart-warming yet deeply introspective on both a personal and human scale. “You’d think I’d be wise from all these lives,” Tim jokes on Rogue – referencing his experiences with past live regression therapy – but Yummy is as sage and as worldly as modern rock gets. Its string-swept opener and calling card Is This Love, for instance – a fine example of the album’s ability to subtly blend cutting edge synthetics into organic James anthems – is as complex a dissection of love in all its forms as has ever been put to tape. “Can you love more than one equally? Is love shaped by a screen, films that you’ve seen, peace of mind?” Tim sings, poring over the pain, heat, battle, distance, fear, release and endurance of this mercurial emotion, in pursuit of its point and purpose. “It’s about Eros,” he explains, “when love’s like a brick through a window and you’re terrified because it could bring the house down.”
With love engendered at the album’s core, Yummy then sets out to help us endure, often appreciate, life’s many dilemmas. Life’s A Fucking Miracle, which Tim considers “one of the most joyful songs we’ve written in years, it could be a queer dance anthem” argues that the most mundane fishbowl existence should be seized and celebrated; and Better With You, a celestial disco tune and apocalypse romance, suggests that even global Armageddon and the subsequent post-human regeneration of the planet would be beautiful to behold with the right person and a good view.
Tim, Jim, Saul and Mark will be signing copies of the album to celebrate the release instore across three locations over the next few days:
APRIL
Fri 12 LIVERPOOL Jacaranda @ 5pm
Sat 13 MANCHESTER HMV @ 5pm
Tue 16 LONDON Oxford Street HMV @ 6pm
More information and tickets here
James perform an exclusive sold out warm-up show at O2 Academy Bournemouth on 29 May then head out on their biggest ever UK tour in June, culminating at the O2 Arena in London, the first time the band have played the 20,000 capacity venue.
2024 ARENA TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS RAZORLIGHT
JUNE
Mon 03 ABERDEEN P&J Live
Wed 05 NEWCASTLE Utilita Arena
Fri 07 GLASGOW OVO Hydro
Sat 08 LEEDS First Direct Arena
Tue 11 CARDIFF Utilita Arena
Wed 12 BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena
Fri 14 MANCHESTER Co-op Live
Sat 15 LONDON O2 Arena
https://tix.to/James24 | www.gigsandtours.com | www.ticketmaster.co.uk
YUMMY TRACK LIST
- Is This Love
- Life’s A Fucking Miracle
- Better With You
- Stay
- Shadow Of A Giant
- Way Over Your Head
- Mobile God
- Our World
- Rogue
- Hey
- Butterfly
- Folks
Also available is a 2CD Deluxe Edition of Yummy, the second CD of which is called Pudding and comprises of demos produced by the four songwriters in the band.
PUDDING TRACK LIST
- Anyone But You
- Close Enough
- Mine To Lose
- Activist Song
- Won’t Be The Same
- Tell Me Something
- Poolewe Day 1 Jam 4
- Arpen Charp
- Deliver The Dawn
- Something Of A Pleasure
- Walk Tall
- 50s Out Takes
Yummy is available on the following formats: CD | 2CD Deluxe | Vinyl | Colour Vinyl (Marbled Red) Retail Exclusive | Colour Vinyl (Marbled Orange) D2C Exclusive
Buy or stream Yummy here
JAMES are: Tim Booth, Jim Glennie, Saul Davies, Adrian Oxaal, David Baynton-Power, Mark Hunter, Andy Diagram, Chloe Alper and Deborah Knox-Hewson.
Our World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0TlqgvzRk
Life’s A Fucking Miracle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRAKf-jU9q0
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