Matthew E. White announces new album Fresh Blood

MATTHEW E. WHITE TO RELEASE FRESH BLOOD, HIS FIRST ALBUM IN TWO YEARS FOR DOMINO ON 9 MARCH

Matthew E. White to play special solo show at St. Luke’s, London on 10 March: 
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?id=17296

Watch the Fresh Blood trailer filmed in Super 8 here: www.fresh-blood.net

Artist: Matthew E. White
Title: Fresh Blood
Release Date: 9 March 2015
Label: Domino
Formats: Vinyl/CD/Digital
Cat Number: WIGCD309, WIGLP309, WIG309D
Web: Official Site | Twitter | Facebook | www.flesh-blood.net

On 9 March, Richmond, Virginia-based singer, bandleader and modern soul visionary Matthew E. White will release Fresh Blood, his first full-length album for Domino and the follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut Big Inner. Produced by White and Spacebomb partner Trey Pollard and mixed by Pat Dillett (David Byrne, Nile Rodgers), Fresh Blood marks the next chapter of White’s Spacebomb Records – an analog studio, record label and production house with in-house strings, horns and a choir at his behest. Audacious, confident and masterful, Fresh Blood is a bracing, beguiling record and a bold advance for White – a record that feels like the brilliant bloom to Big Inner’s striking bud. White has also confirmed an album release show at LSO St. Luke’s in London on 10 March 2015. Watch the new trailer, which was filmed in Super 8 and features a clip of the song ‘Tranquility’, itself a tribute to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZryzsrF_PRw

In 2009, White and his friends established Spacebomb to turn the tunes of songwriters they liked into grandiose, graceful statements. To demonstrate the Spacebomb ideal, White and his wide cast of musicians – possessing a vast knowledge that could pivot from the gusto of New Orleans to the verve of Detroit, from tube-amp rock to hi-fi pop – recorded a few songs he’d pieced together and called it Big Inner, hoping to show other songwriters how the system would work. In the 18 months that followed the release, White toured America and Europe extensively, sharing the stage with St. Vincent, The National and Bon Iver among many others, eventually signing with Domino to release Big Inner worldwide. White played major festivals, including Glastonbury, Primavera, and more, and Big Inner earned five stars in The Guardian and a spot on its year-end list, plus those of Pitchfork, The Line of Best Fit and others. Uncut called it “one of the great albums of modern Americana,” while The Independent deemed Big Inner “a genuine classic.”

If the first album had been serendipity, every step of Fresh Blood was to be deliberate – from his co-writing sessions with longtime friend and former bandmate Andy Jenkins, to his steady arrangement brainstorms with the trusted Spacebomb house band—bassist Cameron Ralston, drummer Pinson Chanselle and guitarist Trey Pollard. Simultaneously recognising the trouble and delight that life can bring, these 10 original songs of Fresh Blood are guides for times of joy, agony and the middle distance where we most often linger.

Fresh Blood will be available on CD (WIGCD309), Vinyl (WIGLP309) and via digital download (WIG309D). There is also a special edition of the album, which is a double LP gatefold heavyweight vinyl (WIGLP309X) containing a bonus LP titled Fresh Blood: No Skin – a full length minimalist mix of the entire album, minus strings/horns or choir. You can pre-order Fresh Blood via iTunes or DomMart.

Fresh Blood tracklist:

1. Take Care My Baby
2. Rock & Roll Is Cold
3. Fruit Trees
4. Holy Moly
5. Circle ‘Round The Sun
6. Feeling Good Is Good Enough
7. Tranquility
8. Golden Robes
9. Vision
10. Love Is Deep

Live dates:

Tue 3 Mar – Brooklyn, NY @ BRIC
Mon 9 Mar – Paris, France @ New Morning (solo)
Tue 10 Mar – London, UK @ LSO St Luke’s (solo)

Praise for Big Inner:

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‘Over seven elegant tracks, White and his musicians achieve the kinds of loveliness that Spiritualized, Lambchop, Cat Power and the Beta Band have tilted at, at different times in the past, and quite often missed’
5/5 The Observer ‘Album of the Week’

‘A genuinely great artist’
5/5 The Guardian ‘Album of the Week’

‘A contender for album of the year’
5/5 The Sun

‘A genuine classic.’
5/5 Independent On Sunday

‘One of the great albums of modern Americana and one suspects that a reluctant start is born’
9/10 Uncut ‘Album of the Month’

‘A debut album of psychedelic gospel-tinged gems’
4/5 Mojo

‘Incredibly accomplished’
4/5 The Times

‘Pure quality’
4/5 The Evening Standard

‘A hugely impressive debut’
4/5 The Independent

‘An uplifting record, all the more enjoyable for its sense of restraint’
4/5 Metro

‘White has sewn together a psychedelic patchwork from various indigenous sounds – cosmic soul and funk, morning-after blues – that’s as great as any of its obvious influences… cosmically knowing but with nifty footwork’
4/5 Q

‘Many have tried to recreate the vibrancy and laidback groove of vintage soul-pop, but to absolutely nail it you need to be someone truly cosmic. Amy Winehouse just about managed it and Matthew E. White is one other such person.’
8/10 NME

‘Soaked in a bygone age of classic country soul… one of the coolest cats you’re likely to come across in 2013’
Music Week

‘If you like Randy Newman and Lambchop, Big Inner will have a similar effect on you’
The Sunday Times

‘Bathe in the redemptive charm of an orchestrally dense paean to the seventies… somewhere between Nick Drake and Cat Stevens’
GQ

‘This is the kind of debut on which devotional followings are founded’
4/5 The Skinny

‘Reading the classics will never guarantee making a classic album, but Matthew E. White is certainly one student that’s just joined the masters’
9/10 The Line of Best Fit