Jamie Lenman announces new mini-album ‘King Of Clubs’

Jamie Lenman has announced a new album!

Titled King of Clubs, the upcoming mini-album from the acclaimed British musician is the follow-up to 2018’s Shuffle and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Big Scary Monsters.

Speaking about the upcoming mini-album, Lenman says, “I didn’t want to make another full album straight after Shuffle, I wanted to give people more time to digest that, but I did want to get back to the studio fairly quickly and record something original just to remind people I’m still a songwriter first and foremost. I was wary of repeating what we’d done with (one off single featuring Justine Jones from EMPLOYED TO SERVE) Long Gone coming after (2016 album Devolver), so I tried to make an EP instead of a single – but by the time I got there, I’d written so much material on the road and in rehearsals we ended up with enough for a mini album. I’ve always loved the format, so many of my favourite records are seven or eight tracks long, I think it’s a perfect package. It’s the musical version of a novella, like Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness or Waugh’s The Loved One, which I was actually reading at the time of recording. It’s a dirty, dark-sounding record based on uncomfortable, conflicting emotions.”

Alongside the announcement of the new record, Lenman has released a new music video for the first song to be lifted from the upcoming mini-album; The Road To Right. Speaking about the new song, he says, “this is a song I was writing before we started (previous full length album) Shuffle, so I shelved it when I realised that was going to be all covers. Then by the time I was touring that album, I wanted to play something new and Road was just sitting there ready to go. It got a great reception, maybe because it’s quite a ‘traditional Jamie Lenman song’, if there is such a thing. People just like new music, really. Lyrically it’s very introspective, similar to the stuff on Devolver. It deals with the concept of ‘finding yourself’ and what to do if you actually manage that, only to discover what you really want is to get as far away from yourself as you can.”

Watch the official music video for The Road To Right here: 

King Of Clubs is set for release on September 25th via Big Scary Monsters.

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