Posts Tagged ‘The Big Pink’

The Big Pink are perhaps every guitar band’s worst nightmare.

Belonging to a select group of electro-pop artists that have recently found success through pragmatic, business like methods of networking as opposed to the more traditional rock n roll rite of passage (starting at the very bottom, playing the most vile clubs imaginable and getting ‘discovered’ at some mythical venue), they write huge, super catchy pop songs at ease whilst maintaining experimental progression in a strangely affecting way, peculiarly refusing to nestle into the context of any single genre.

And as they pull the curtain down on the ever fading ‘indie landfill’ phenomenon along with the likes of Cut Copy and Foster the People, you can’t help but wonder if this is where music is inevitably headed, relying not on the pluck of a string, but on the push of a button.

The Big Pink‘s Robbie Furze has said the duo feel they have made a step up to ‘the next level’ on their second album ‘Future This‘.

The Big Pink will release their second studio album ‘Future This‘ on January 16th next year, the duo have confirmed.

The LP, the follow up to their 2009 debut ‘A Brief History Of Love‘, has been recorded this year with Adele cohort Paul Epworth, and will contain ten new tracks including new single ‘Hit The Ground (Superman)‘, which can be sampled here.

Here you’ll find all the latest news from this week’s UK Indie Album and Singles Charts, as well as Live4ever’s highlights taken from some of our featured tours going on in a major city near you over the next 7 days.

News on Muse’s support acts for their upcoming UK stadium tour, the details on REM’s new re-issue, the latest acts added to this summer’s Camp Bestival event and new Band Of Skulls releases.

Electro-rockers The Big Pink, led principally by Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, have revealed they are already turning their attention to recording a new album, following the release of their debut LP ‘A Brief History Of Love‘ in September last year.

This years Shockwaves NME Awards tour will feature 3 British and one Brooklyn based US indie band. Hitting the road for the 2010 UK tour  will be The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums.

Our weekly round-up of highlights includes new albums from Editors and The Flaming Lips, a few appearances from New Order legend Bernard Sumner, and another eclectic line-up on Later… with Jools Holland.

Albums

Editors return this week with their third studio album ‘In This Light and On This Evening’. Their first since 2007′s ‘An End Has a Start‘, the album has received generally positive reviews from critics, with one calling it a ‘a career peak for the band’.

Also returning this week are American veterans The Flaming Lips – ‘Embryonic‘, the band’s first double album, is out on Monday, elsewhere Liverpool-based Echo & The Bunnymen release their eleventh studio album ‘The Fountain‘.

Our highlights this week include a new album from one of the world’s biggest rock acts, a huge homecoming show for Elbow and the return of a long-running TV series.

Albums

No doubting the big release this week as Muse’s hugely-anticipated fifth studio album ‘The Resistance’ is out today. Elsewhere, David Gray releases his first album in four years – ‘Draw The Line‘ is out this week and The Big Pink’s debut album ‘A Brief History Of Love’, out today, is definitely worth checking out.

Here’s a look at our picks of highlights in UK music coming up this week , which includes a huge Manchester gig from Coldplay and plenty of treats for Beatles fans.

Albums

The boxset of the fully re-mastered back catalogue of The Beatles is released today, with the individual albums being released on Wednesday. The Cribs’ fourth studio album, and first with Johnny Marr, ‘Ignore The Ignorant’ is out today and London-based singer-songwriter Jamie T releases his new album ”Kings & Queens’.