Jet’s Cam Muncey has right this moment (April 9) introduced his debut solo album ‘Delusions of Grandeur’ and shared a soulful new single ‘Take A Likelihood’ – test it out beneath.
The music is the primary taster of Muncey’s new album, which shall be launched on June 27 through Impressed Recordings. You may pre-order it right here.
The brand new single is described as “a swirling, soulful piano-pop gem” that “soundtracks a story of the musician’s time in his then north London neighbourhood throughout the 2011 London riots.”
A press release added that Muncey was additionally impressed and fired as much as write songs following Jet’s time spent supporting Bruce Springsteen” again in 2016-2017.
Try the brand new music right here:
The album was recorded in 30 days and noticed Muncey work alongside award-winning Australian producer Jan Skubiszewski, Jet bassist Mark Wilson and drummer Peter Marin.
A press release concerning the album provides: “The result’s an expansive and mellow debut, packed filled with catchy, typically introspective songs, filled with shimmering sonics, taking in his love of dreamy shoegazing, melodic guitar-pop, 80s indie, swaying soul, atmospheric art-rock.”
Artists stated to have influenced the document embrace The Smiths, Discuss Discuss, Curtis Mayfield, R.E.M., Mazzy Star, The Warfare On Medication, Roxy Music and extra.
In the meantime, an announcement from Impressed Data added: “A world faraway from the up and at ‘em crunching guitar anthems of his day job, Muncey’s debut album is a daring and adventurous journey into the wild, one which explores a sonic panorama he has left untouched in his work with the band he shaped with brothers Nic and Chris Cester in 2001.
“After three information, over 4 million album gross sales and a bona fide era-defining smash hit in ‘Are You Gonna Be My Woman’, Jet known as it quits in 2012. Dwelling in London along with his spouse and younger household on the time, Muncey set his songwriting – he co-wrote a few of Jet’s largest hits, together with the aforementioned ‘Are You Gonna Be My Woman’ – and musician chops to at least one aspect. The chilly shoulder remedy continued when the household relocated to his native Melbourne quickly after, Muncey concentrating on being a father and taking on odd jobs right here and there simply to present himself one thing to do. It was, he says trying again now, a interval of avoidance’.
“However there was unfinished enterprise the place music was involved, and the urge to write down was tentatively returning. By the point Covid rolled round, Muncey had a fireplace in his stomach. Some artists couldn’t get within the groove throughout the pandemic, glad to take care of the doom and gloom by bingeing field units like the remainder of us, however he acquired to grips with first GarageBand after which Logic and a imaginative and prescient for one thing wholly his personal slowly got here into view.”
‘Cam Muncey & The Delusions of Grandeur’ tracklist is:
‘Arrhythmia’
‘No Rock n Roll Star’
‘Already Gone’
‘I’ve Been Low’
‘Respiratory Once more’
‘Take a Likelihood’
‘Daylight, Darkmind’
‘You Fade On Me’
Final 12 months, Jet made a comeback with their first single in 15 years, ‘Hurry Hurry’.
The Australian rockers performed the music reside on their current twentieth anniversary tour of their house nation and the observe finally acquired a full launch. It was launched alongside B-side ‘Un’avventura’, which options vocalist and guitarist Nic Cester performing in each English and Italian, having lived in Italy for the previous 15 years.
“‘Hurry Hurry’ is our first single in 15 years and a little bit appetiser whereas we proceed to work on our upcoming album,” Cester stated on the time. “We’ve been taking part in ‘Hurry Hurry’ reside with an ideal response from our followers in Australia, we’re actually trying ahead to debuting it reside at our abroad exhibits in Italy, the UK and the US.”
The band additionally headed out on their first UK and Eire tour in 15 years final autumn in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of their 2003 debut album ‘Get Born’.
