"Back and at his best". James Morrison unveils first new single in four years
Having spent the last four
years away from the limelight, James Morrison makes a welcome return with his
new single ‘Demons’, released on September 10th through Island Records.
The rousing track,
written about resisting the little voices in your head trying to take you down,
has Morrison’s signature soulful vocal over a high pitched loop that altogether
makes for a rich, uplifting and contemporary sound.
‘Demons’
is the first single from James Morrison’s forthcoming fourth album,
details of which are due to be announced on Friday this week.
James was recently given
an amazing welcome back when he played his first live shows since 2011 - all of
which sold out in a matter of seconds. Two nights at Wilton’s Music Hall and
one night at the Tabernacle in London where he debuted some of his forthcoming
new tracks. The Evening Standard agreed that James was back and at his best,
calling his return the “uplifting comeback of a spirited soul man”.
When James broke onto
the scene as a soulful singer-songwriter in 2006, even he couldn’t have
predicted that he would become the template that allowed a wave of likeminded
musicians to enter the field. Now, almost a decade on, Ed Sheeran, George Ezra
and James Bay are all crowding the charts following the same format; one guy
with an incredible voice and just a guitar.
Despite his
self-deprecation and humble nature, he really was the first to take that format
and not only make it work but also became an overnight success story. Pop gems
like ‘You Give Me Something’ from his first record ‘Undiscovered’, made him
anything but, and he won the 2007 BRIT Award for Best Male when he was still
just 21 years old.
James has gone on to
sell over 4.5 million copies of his three albums, performed four world
tours including sold-out
shows to thousands at London’s Hyde Park, supporting both Bruce Springsteen and
Stevie Wonder and appeared on Herbie Hancock’s Grammy-winning album ‘The
Imagination Project’.
2008’s ‘Songs for You,
Truths for Me’ brought with it a string of Top Ten singles, including
the phenomenally catchy ‘Broken Strings’ with Nelly Furtado, with his last
album, 2011’s ‘Awakening’ shooting straight to Number One, selling over
one million copies worldwide.
‘I’ve
got demons, I’ve got demons trying to get to me… but they’ll never get me down”
(lyric taken from ‘Demons’ by James Morrison)
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