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Imogen Heap details LP
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 25 September 2013
Imogen Heap recently detailed a new LP named ‘Sparks’, setting its release date at 3 Mar 2014. It features a kind of ‘lifespan’ track, ‘The Listening Chair’, which Heap says she’ll add to every seven years that she’s alive, meaning, as its press release eagerly states, it’ll “only be finished when she’s dead!”. I’d say I can’t wait to hear the finished product, but that doesn’t sound quite right.
‘Sparks’ will also be available as a limited edition ‘deluxe package’, developed by Heap and creative firm CSV, the team that did Radohead’s ‘The King Of Limbs’ packaging.
Released a week earlier than the standard version, the deluxe edition will contain thirteen individual CDs, the LP on ten-inch vinyl, and a special ticket entitling fans to meets and greets at any of Heap’s international live dates. Fans paying for the limited LP can also mail in photos of their footprints which will be incorporated into its front cover. Details on all that at imogenheap.com/
Heap speaks: “The album began with someone sending in the sound of a striking match for what became [album track] ‘Lifeline’ in March 2011. I then dived into the most immense, intense creative two and a half years of my life that took me all over the planet, collaborating on so many projects with so many people and often totally spontaneously. The album is then in some ways for me grounded with fans’ footprints bringing the finishing touch for the album art, as so many of them came along for the ride”.
Lastly, and harking back to 2011, this is one of the new record’s tracks ‘Propeller Seeds’:
