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As this week's guest on The Record Club with Bowers & Wilkins, Foxes sat down with DJ and presenter Jess Iszatt to discuss the stories behind her recently-released third album, The Kick.
The Kick is Foxes first full-length effort in six years - since sophomore album All I Need in 2016. Now an independent artist signed through PIAS, The Kick is heavily indebted to synth-pop records, and at points feels like a sonic cousin to Carly Rae Jepsen's 2015 opus Emotion.
But according to Foxes, she wanted to kick (literally) the habit of making pristine and "clean" pop.
"A lot of pop music at the moment is clean and quite perfect," Foxes said. "I like making stuff that's a bit rough around the edges."
On the sonic trajectory of the album, she added: "If I can kind take it to a strange place, and it still be pop...that's my safe space."
To date, Foxes has six Top 40 singles in the UK, including a Top 10 hit with 2014's Let Go For Tonight. She has also picked up two Top 20 placings with her previous albums, Glorious (2014) and All I Need (2016). See Foxes' full Official Chart history here.
Designed as a book club for albums, The Record Club in association with Bowers & Wilkins is a bi-monthly livestream, hosted by BBC Music’s Jess Iszatt, on Facebook Live, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube Live every other Wednesday.
Fans are encouraged to order the selected new-release album from their favourite local record shop either in-store or on home delivery, listen to it in full, then tune into the broadcast armed with their questions for the artist and a chance to win a prize.
Matt Hancock has been accused of using the UK's refugee scheme to improve his personal image by taking in a Ukrainian family.
Stormzy has confirmed that his third studio album will arrive this year.The Croydon MC made the announcement during the first show of his 2022 UK and Ireland arena tour in Cardiff last night (March 13). At one point in the gig, the crowd saw a video consisting of studio shots of Stormzy recording the upcoming LP.At the end of the footage, the following message was displayed onscreen: “Album 3.
There's five days to go until Charli XCX unleashes her fifth studio album Crash, but apparently there are even more surprises on the way.
Placebo have shared the details behind their first North American tour in almost a decade.The string of dates will follow the release of the band’s eighth studio album ‘Never Let Me Go’ which is set for March 25. Tickets are on sale here.The tour kicks off in Vancouver in September, with stops in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco before it ends in New York.
Stereophonics have secured their eighth UK Number 1 album with Oochya!, released on Ignition Records. The album outselling their closest competition by 2:1, according to Official Charts Company data.
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Queen Elizabeth, 95, made her first in-person appearance on Monday, March 7 after recovering from COVID-19. The British monarch was pictured graciously shaking hands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 50, at her residence at Windsor Castle in England. The Queen looked healthy and had a big smile on her face. She was dressed in a stylish blue floral dress for the meeting.
Queen Elizabeth II met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday in her first in-person meeting since battling COVID-19. The two were photographed together at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace confirmed the news on social media. "This afternoon The Queen received the Prime Minister of Canada, @JustinTrudeau, for an Audience at Windsor Castle," the official Twitter account wrote.
The Queen has finally returned to face-to-face engagements as she met the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 50.The 95 year old monarch had been avoiding all in-person plans on her royal schedule due to an extended bout of COVID-19. Aides and medics did their best to help the Queen isolate, as she continued to present with "mild symptoms" of Covid, and she hosted a number of official figures via Zoom and video link.
On Monday, Queen Elizabeth II held an audience with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Bartees Strange has released his first single for the year, ‘Heavy Heart’. It arrives alongside news the Washington-based singer-songwriter has signed with iconic label 4AD.The new song, which follows on from last year’s ‘Weights’ and 2020 album ‘Live Forever’, opens with a sparse, slow-burning guitar line before pivoting into an emotive, high-energy indie rocker. “This song is a culmination of some beautiful things,” Strange says of the track.‘Heavy Heart’ arrives alongside a music video directed by Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy.
Charli XCX has unveiled the music video for her newest single, Baby, taken from her upcoming album Crash (due March 18 via Atlantic).