PHOTO CREDIT: PAUL DIXON
OUR WORLD SINGLE // OUT NOW
FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM YUMMY
JAMES have released the second single to be taken from their new album YUMMY. OUR WORLD is available now across all DSPs with the album to follow on 12 April via Virgin Music, and available to pre-order here.
Our World holds onto the hope that the human family might eventually unite to “share not spoil” the planet, with Tim singing “Our world isn’t your world, you just stole the world,” and “fake democracies come cheap, profit today from our children’s tomorrow, get rich quick in Eldorado.” Having been singing about environmental issues for many years, it’s not only the Earth itself that Tim worries for.
Speaking about Our World, Tim says: “This song goes out to those who believe that singers shouldn’t write political lyrics – when they conflict with their own. It’s a quick recap of how we are destroying ourselves and nature. How we seem to have forgotten that we are part of the magnificent living ecosystem of nature, and the inevitability of how she is responding to the imbalances we are creating. It’s also got whistling in it, and a nifty sing along. PS It’s the only political song on the album.”
Yummy is the band’s 18th studio album and was produced by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Jon Hopkins, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor) and mixed by Cenzo Townsend (Courteeners, The Specials, Everything Everything). The album artwork has been directed and designed by Studio Fury whose previous work includes the campaign for the latest Rolling Stones album, Hackney Diamonds.
YUMMY TRACK LIST
- Is This Love
- Life Is A Fucking Miracle
- Better With You
- Stay
- Shadow Of A Giant
- Way Over Your Head
- Mobile God
- Our World
- Rogue
- Hey
- Butterfly
- Folks
The album is also available as a 2CD Deluxe Edition, the second CD of which is called Pudding and comprises of demos produced by the four songwriters in the band.
PUDDING TRACK LIST
- Anyone But You
- Close Enough
- Mine To Lose
- Activist Song
- Won’t Be The Same
- Tell Me Something
- Poolewe Day 1 Jam 4
- Arpen Charp
- Deliver The Dawn
- Something Of A Pleasure
- Walk Tall
- 50s Out Takes
Yummy will be available on the following formats: CD | 2CD Deluxe | Vinyl | Colour Vinyl (Marbled Red) Retail Exclusive | Colour Vinyl (Marbled Orange) D2C Exclusive. Pre-order here
James head out on their biggest ever UK tour in June, including the new Co-op Live Arena in Manchester and culminating at The O2 in London, the first time the band have played the 20,000 capacity venue.
2024 ARENA TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS RAZORLIGHT
JUNE
Mon 03 ABERDEEN P&J Live
Wed 05 NEWCASTLE Utilita Arena
Fri 07 GLASGOW OVO Hydro
Sat 08 LEEDS First Direct Arena
Tue 11 CARDIFF Utilita Arena
Wed 12 BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena
Fri 14 MANCHESTER Co-op Live
Sat 15 LONDON O2 Arena
ABOUT JAMES
With more than 25 million albums sold over their 42 year career, Manchester legends James are amongst the most commercially and artistically – and most loved – alternative bands of their era. Having gathered a cult following around compulsively art rock gallops like Johnny Yen during the 80s, they broke through to mainstream chart success with their 1990 major label debut Gold Mother and went on to unite the early 90s with euphoric anthems of solace, love, sex, loss and frustration at the ills of the world – Come Home, Sit Down, Sound, Sometimes (Lester Piggott) and Laid.
Their fifth album, Laid – the first of a string of James albums produced by Brian Eno – saw them break the US charts, while subsequent albums including Whiplash (1997) Millionaires (1999) and Pleased To Meet You (2001) cemented their standing as a classic singles act, adding Tomorrow, She’s A Star, Just Like Fred Astaire and Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) to their formidable canon.
The band entered a six year hiatus in December 2001 but such was the connection and fervency of their fanbase that their reunion in 2007 was met with such renewed success that it was as though they had never been away. Their 2008 comeback album Hey Ma became their sixth Top Ten album and their celebrated second era would earn them more Top 20 album placings and faster ticket sales than their whirlwind initial run.
2014’s La Petite Mort – inspired by the deaths of singer Tim Booth’s mother and his close friend Gabrielle Roth – was critically acclaimed, while Girl At The End Of The World in 2016 returned them to the upper echelons of the album chart, where they’ve remained ever since. Living in Extraordinary Times (2018) All The Colours Of You (2021) and the new, 18th studio album Yummy are amongst their finest and most prescient releases, dealing with US politics, AI technology and conspiracy theorists, all the while facing down mortality with an unbeaten smile and striving for love in a world spinning catastrophically out of control. Their 40th Anniversary in 2023 was celebrated with a tour of inspired orchestral reworkings of their classics – and a Top 3 album Be Opened By The Wonderful – but this was far from a full stop.
JAMES are: Tim Booth, Jim Glennie, Saul Davies, Adrian Oxaal, David Baynton-Power, Mark Hunter, Andy Diagram, Chloe Alper and Deborah Knox-Hewson.
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