The Butler Did It
Ex Suede plank spanker and guitar guru Bernard Butler has
reunited with flamboyant soul diva David McAlmont and
completed a new album.
The duo last worked together in 1996 and recorded The Sound
of McAlmont Butler with Butler handling all the instrumental
duties while McAlmont learnt his trademark histrionic croon.
The album was released to great critical praise and produced
the hits Yes and You Do. But within a year the pair had spilt
amongst great public acrimony. With Butler's famously demanding
studio regime being touted as the cause (a factor that allegedly
played a part in his departure from Suede).
Since then Butler went on to work with artists as diverse as
Bryan Ferry, Edwyn Collins, Aimee Mann, Eddie Reader and Neneh
Cherry, and was personally asked by Richard Ashcroft to join The
Verve after Nick McCabe temporarily left the band in 1997. Instead
he recorded two solo albums, Friends and Lovers and People Move On,
and the last thing anyone expected was a reunion between him and
the outspoken McAlmont.
However Xfm can reveal the duo have completed recording a new album,
and are in the final mixing stages. Apparently, despite the split,
they always wanted to record together again, so they patched up
their differences last year and the newly completed record (working
title The Sound Of McAlmont & Butler: Vol.2) should be released on
EMI within the next few months.
While the album contains some tunes similar to the epic Phil
Spectorish pop of their previous singles, it’s apparently a more
soulful affair, with a spokesman explaining how “David had always
wanted to make a soul album.” Butler is once again producing the
record himself alongside Ultrasound and Ian Brown studio knob cranker
Nick Terry
Butler had previously reported on his website,
www.mcalmontandbutler.com,
“It feels very uplifting, colourful and eclectic. We are both very
fond of what we have written this time as an entire record and we're
excited by people being able to hear it soon too.”
Matt Everitt
http://www.xfm.co.uk/webClient?guid=18462&site=xfm
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