Jamie Woon has introduced ‘3, 10, Why, When’, his first album in 10 years, and shared the singles ‘When’ and ‘Pulling On A Thread’ – pay attention beneath.
The British songwriter and producer has not launched a full-length file beneath his personal identify since 2015’s ‘Making Time’, however he has now confirmed that his new album can be out on October 3 by way of his personal label Additionally Can (pre-order/pre-save right here).
The primary tasters of the album got here with ‘Heavy Going’ and ‘A Velvet Rope’ final month, and now, followers have two extra singles to dig into. ‘When’ is a jittering, percussive monitor that twitches with anxiousness, whereas ‘Pulling On A Thread’ is a clean, sultry manufacturing with swelling strings and soothing R&B vocals.
Hearken to each tracks and take a look at the album art work beneath.
A BRIT Faculty graduate, Woon broke via along with his 2010 single ‘Night time Air’, co-produced by Burial, and launched his debut album ‘Mirrorwriting’ in 2011.
Within the years since ‘Making Time’, Woon has labored as a producer with artists resembling Holly Walker, Elmiene and Lil Silva, whereas the fabric for this album took place whereas he was working alongside the producer Martin Terefe.
“He’s very humble regardless of engaged on big smash hits with artists from everywhere in the world,” Woon has mentioned about Terefe. “He noticed what I used to be scuffling with and hung in there with me. He type of tricked me into making an album – we made one track, then one other, then after we had 10 we simply mentioned that’s the album.”
Talking in regards to the album, Woon added: “I don’t actually know the way to clarify this music. It’s extraordinary to me that it exists in any respect.”
“I’m curious to see if I can construct one thing that doesn’t kill my artistic stream, and see if that may be one thing I can provide to others finally,” he added.
NME awarded ‘Making Time’ three stars in 2015, writing: “Prefer it’s predecessor, ‘Making Time’ has extra in frequent with ’90s neo soul singers like Maxwell and Erykah Badu than dubstep. If something, the umbilical twine stretching again to neo soul is much more evident, and Woon says the file is instantly impressed the style’s greatest identify, D’Angelo.”
