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Charlotte Hatherley

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‘New Worlds’ is Charlotte’s infinitely irresistible, sumptuously sexy, and profoundly inventive new pop opus. Having already successfully mastered a career in music that stretches far beyond many of Britain’s biggest bands of the past 10 years, Hatherley’s third album shapes her as a truly innovative artist in her own right. ‘New Worlds’ is arguably Charlotte’s ‘coming of age’ solo album. Moulded by her unrivalled experience as a guitarist in Nightnurse, Ash, and currently Bat For Lashes’ live band, been musically wooed by Courtney Love and Brody Dalle, and hand-picked by her personal hero, Bryan Ferry, to play with his touring band, she draws on these special moments and far beyond, to deliver an album that staunchly defies classification. “New Worlds’ is the story of how things go wrong - and then they go right again.” – Charlotte Hatherley “After I left Ash I think I went a bit mental,” says the luminously honest young woman who joined Ash aged only 17, “it’s really hard to figure out who you are at that age, let alone when you’re with a bunch of blokes! It’s arrested development. So this record is all about a search for truth and honesty. Thinking, ‘right, now I know what I’m supposed to be doing’.” A collection of vibrant, guitar-led, electronically-skewed art-pop from a singular force of creative nature; the multi-layered dreamscape of the glorious first single ‘White’; the delicate acoustic folk-pop of second single ‘Alexander’; the frenetic, Devo-esque ‘New Worlds’ (“my world is suffering from a loss of brilliance,” she sings, beautifully, like a pop-art Kate Bush escaped from a musical Tardis, “If I could take off my skin then I would see all the colours there”); the demented, psychedelic narco-pop of ‘Firebird’; the mewling romp of ‘Full Circle’; the punk-pop euphoria of ‘Little Sahara’; the driving pulse of ‘Colours’; the intensely radiant harmonies of the epically dissonant ‘Cinnabar’ and the eerie, watery finger-snaps through the ghostly ‘Wrong Notes’ (the closing, electronic atmospheric adapted from Leonard Bernstein’s classical caper, ‘Wrong Note Rag’) with its hard-won wisdom which tells us “all the wrong notes are right”. ‘New Worlds’ was created with her long-time collaborator Rob Ellis (the absurdly gifted drummer, producer and arranger best-known for his work with PJ Harvey since 1990), the two randomly playing together in a studio in Wales before recording the songs completely live in a single week in London, produced by Luke Smith (ex-Clor, Depeche Mode) and mixed by Alan Moulder (renowned mixer for the Arctic Monkeys and Smashing Pumpkins). Charlotte Hatherley promised something different, and ‘New Worlds’ takes that promise, delivers it in a star-shaped package and beams it skyward.

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Jan 12 2008, 04:40 PM

Siberia, both mixes, blows my mind. Do I hear a touch of Siouxsie and the Banshees in the Luke Smith Remix?
Oct 22 2007, 09:42 PM

'Wounded Sky' is so beautiful.....

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