Jake Bugg not planning to work with co-writers in the future


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Jake Bugg (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)




Jake Bugg has said his second album ‘Shangri La‘ marks the end of his time working with co-writers.

Bugg’s latest LP, and his self-titled debut, feature songwriting credits from a selection of more experienced musicians – most prominently one-time Snow Patrol member Iain Archer.

But speaking to NME, Bugg revealed he is now prepared to go it alone in the songwriting stakes, and hopes to work on an acoustic-based album inspired by Nick Drake‘s ‘Pink Moon‘.

“I don’t want to work with anyone else,” he explained. “I want to make an acoustic record, something not necessarily with big choruses. For example, ‘Pink Moon’, you take one of those tracks separately, it doesn’t stand up, but if you take it all together and it creates a mood, an atmosphere.”

“That’s kind of the way it works now, because labels don’t have a lot of money so they want to be sure they have the best chance they can at making some,” he continued on the start of his collaboration period. “I was very skeptical about it at the time. But then I thought, why not? I’m only 17 I could probably learn a lot from these guys.”


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