IMELDA MAY Life.Love.Flesh.Blood 12" Vinyl LP NEW SEALED MP3 Voucher JEFF BECK

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Imelda May (featuring Jeff Beck, produced by T-Bone Burnett)

Life.Love.Flesh.Blood
12" Vinyl LP MP3 Voucher included

Item Description:

Tracklist

A1 Call Me

Written-By – Patrick Davies

A2 Black Tears

Featuring – Jeff Beck

Soloist, Guitar – Jeff Beck

Written-By – Angelo Petraglia

A3 Should’ve Been You

A4 Sixth Sense

Written-By – Paul Moak

A5 Human

A6 How Bad Can A Good Girl Be

B1 Bad Habit

B2 Levitate

B3 When It's My Time

Featuring – Jools Holland

Piano – Jools Holland

B4 Leave Me Lonely

Written-By – Patrick Davies

B5 The Girl I Used To Be

Written-By – Paul Moak

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Decca

Copyright (c) – Decca

Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BG59893

Published By – BMG Chrysalis

Published By – Warner Chappell Nashville

Published By – Here We Go Again Music

Published By – Combustion Music

Recorded At – The Village Studios

Mixed At – Olympic Studios, Los Angeles

Mastered At – Lurssen Mastering

Credits

Acoustic Bass – Dennis Crouch (tracks: A2, A4, B2 to B4)

Backing Vocals, Arranged By [Backing Vocals Arrangements By] – Imelda May

Coordinator [Production Co-Ordinating By] – Ivy Skoff

Design, Art Direction – Steve Stacey

Drums – Jay Bellerose

Electric Bass – Zachary Dawes (tracks: A1, A3 to B2, B4, B5)

Engineer [Additional Engineering By] – Chris Wilkinson (3), Eli Crews

Engineer [Second Engineering By] – Billy Centenaro, Vanessa Parr, Zach Lizzio

Guitar – Marc Ribot, T-Bone Burnett (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B1, B3 to B5)

Horns, Arranged By [Horns Arrangements By] – Darrell Leonard (tracks: A2)

Keyboards, Arranged By [Keyboard Arrangements By] – Patrick Warren (tracks: A1 to B2, B4, B5)

Mastered By – Gavin Lurssen

Organ – Carl Wheeler

Photography By [Back Cover Photo By] – Roger Deckker

Photography By [Cover Photo By] – Max Dodson

Photography By [Inside Photo By] – Eddie Otchere

Producer – T-Bone Burnett

Producer [Production Assisting By] – Kylie Kempster

Recorded By, Mixed By – Jason Wormer

Technician [Equipment Technician] – Curtis Laur

Ukulele – Marc Ribot (tracks: B5)

Vocals – Imelda May

Notes

Includes a download voucher for the album + 4 bonus tracks: The Longing, Flesh And Blood, Game Changer and Love and Fear.

2017 Decca, a Division of Universal Music Operations Limited. The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Decca, a Division of Universal Music Operations Limited.Made in the EU (Sticker says Made In Germany) 

BIEM/SDRM 5728829. Mp3 voucher included.

All tracks published by BMG Chrysalis

A1, B4 also published by Warner Chappell Nashville

A2 also published by Here We Go Again Music/BMI

A4, B5 also published by Combustion Music

Jeff Beck appears courtesy of ATCO Records

Jools Holland appears courtesy of Warner Music UK Limited.

Review by Matt Collar 

Following the end of her marriage to longtime collaborator and guitarist Darrel Higham in 2015, Irish vocalist Imelda May returns with her fifth studio album, 2017's dark-hued Life. Love. Flesh. Blood. Produced by acclaimed roots icon T-Bone Burnett, Life. Love. Flesh. Blood finds May transforming both her sound and image with a suitably haunting and soulful set of songs rife with heartache. Gone are her rockabilly-tinged grooves (and trademark pompadour), replaced with a ballad-heavy, reverb-soaked aesthetic and dark brown Chrissie Hynde-style shag, all of which befits her post-divorce attitude of mourn and move on. If her earlier albums matched '50s rock bounce with '80s new wave attitude, then Life. Love. Flesh. Blood is pure '60s songcraft, a Roy Orbison-esque combination of dusky Americana and vintage British soul. In that sense, it brings to mind similarly inclined albums by artists like Chris Isaak, Richard Hawley, and Elvis Costello. Burnett frames May's throaty, highly resonant croon with a Phil Spector-ish wall of sound punctuated by dreamy guitars (courtesy of Burnett and Marc Ribot), horns (Darrell Leonard), booming low-end bass (via Zach Dawes and Dennis Crouch), sparkling piano (Patrick Warren), B-3 organ (Carl Wheeler), and swirls of über-dramatic Motown-level drums (Jay Bellerose). It's rootsy enough to sound familiar to longtime fans, but also enough of a departure from her heretofore pulpy, leopard-print-and-high-heels rock & roll vibe that some listeners may take a moment to wistfully mark the change. Helping aid the transition and lending their support are several guest performers, including legendary guitar virtuoso and longtime May champion Jeff Beck, who supplies his bluesy reassurance on the languid anthem "Black Tears." Similarly, TV host and former Squeeze pianist Jools Holland shows up on the gospel-infused "When It's My Time." That said, it's May's voice that sticks with you, along with the yearning pathos that she conveys throughout all of Life. Love. Flesh. Blood. Thankfully, rather than a complete downer, the album is peppered with moments of cathartic pop joy, as on the anthemic, Brill Building-worthy "Should've Been You" and the swaggering Pixies-do-Southern-soul number "Leave Me Lonely." Even the rambling acoustic folk closer, "The Girl I Used to Be," in which May draws parallels between her younger self and her daughter, strikes a tone of poignant, bittersweet joy. She sings "Now I'm grown with a child of my own/And I hope to god on high/That these are the days she thinks upon/As the best days of her life." It's a direct comment on her own troubles as a divorced parent, but also one imbued with poetry and a universally relatable theme of renewal. In fact, while most of the songs here do read explicitly like May weighing in on the end of her relationship, they never feel uncomfortably personal, and the overall album plays as a paean to heartache itself. Ultimately, while the album may not hit with the rockabilly wallop that marked the best of her previous work, Life. Love. Flesh. Blood is nonetheless a sophisticated and gorgeously rendered album.

Jacket Condition: Mint

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Vinyl Condition: Mint

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