Jake Bugg: Label rejected new album for self-produced demos

Jake Bugg has revealed he is now self-producing a third album after label bosses preferred his early demos of new songs to the final versions which had been worked on with an un-named producer.

“Weirdly enough the label preferred my recordings to the producer I’d been recording with,” Bugg’s told the BBC. “It wasn’t my choice, it was their choice. So they must be OK. I’ve been mixing them and making them sound real sharp and real nice.”

Self-producing adds another, potentially more personal touch to his next studio LP after Bugg spoke last year of his intention to, for the first time, create an entire album without the help of outside ‘co-writers’.

The BBC reports that one of those new tunes was debuted during a recent event to support its Introducing initiative, and dealt with the singer’s upbringing as ‘a poor boy from Nottingham’.

“That’s the first time I’ve played that song,” he continued. “It’s very bluesy – it’s only two chords as well.”

“That’s what everyone would expect me to write about – but that song kind of wrote itself. The other songs on the album have different lyrical content. I think it’s good to mix it up.”