LOSTBOY!, the new solo project by Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, will release his debut album in the UK on 16th May through earMUSIC.
The self-titled record has been produced by Kerr’s Simple Minds cohort Jez Coad and features bassist Charlie Jones, who has worked with Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant and Goldfrapp amongst others, as well as long-time Simple Minds drummer Mel Gaynor.
Described as a ‘noisy and juvenile explosion’, the project was initiated by Kerr’s desire to create something fresh after years with Simple Minds: “I had a yearning to create something brand new,” he said. “Something that involved going back to the very beginning, something without past glories to depend on.”
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However, the new direction does not signal an end to Simple Minds: “Lostboy! AKA can and will move into the future in parallel with the continuing story of Simple Minds,” says Kerr, who also confirmed he will take the record out on the road: “Lostboy! AKA was born to play live, likewise the music is screaming to be heard in a live context.”
Speaking about the project as whole, Kerr said: “Unbelievably I seemed to have reconnected with the spirit of the kid I was when I first started to make rock music. As if I had come face to face with the lost boy that I had left behind. I wanted to make music that reflected the rediscovery of the energy with which I had reconnected. I am delighted with the result and convinced that Lostboy! AKA is something special that will grow quickly over the next years.”
The album will be released on four physical formats as well as digitally, and will include a standard 11-track CD, 12” Vinyl, a limited edition CD featuring 3 bonus studio tracks, and a special collector’s edition which will include the CD and a 7” vinyl single featuring covers of Velvet Underground’s ‘What Goes On‘ and The Verve’s classic single ‘Lucky Man‘.
Lostboy! AKA Tracklisting:
‘Refugee’
‘She Fell In Love With Silence’
‘Shadowland’
‘Return Of The King’
‘Red Letter Day’
‘Remember Asia’
‘Bulletproof Heart’
‘Lostboy!’
‘Nail Through My Heart’
‘Solo Man Solo Head’
‘The Wait’