James playing a joint bill with The Charlatans at Liverpool’s Echo Arena (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
A month or so on from its first release as part of an EP of the same name, James have handed an official video to Better Than That with it also soon to feature on their brand new studio album.
“Pleasingly, despite the veteran status of their careers, this is not the work of a band lacking the wisdom to make cheap concessions,” Live4ever’s Better Than That EP review reads.
“The titular opener barrels along, a clutch of overlaid ideas – bubbling synths, chopped guitars, rangy bass – all at an exuberant tempo that leaves little doubt as to whether Booth and co. are more closed of mind as they mature.”
The band will follow the EP on August 3rd with Living In Extraordinary Times, an album which Tim Booth has said began life when they, ‘knew something was up when Leicester City won the league then Brexit, then Trump’. “It is as if we’d slipped into an alternate reality, a Philip K Dick reality. We are living in extraordinary times,” he continued.
