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James Holden announces new album
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 12 January 2023
James Holden has announced that he will release new album ‘Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities’ in March – his first LP since 2017’s ‘The Animal Spirits’.
Out now is new single ‘Contains Multitudes’. The ten minute track is actually split into two parts, starting out with fast-paced synth and tabla before slowing down to a sombre piano and violin piece.
“I’d been looking at John Stezaker’s collages”, he explains, “where things collide and it feels like it opens a window into them, thinking a lot about musical approaches to that idea, then the end part of this just appeared in my head as I listened to the loops of the beginning part. The two songs are opposite musics but also completely contained inside one another”.
Of the album more widely, he says: “I wanted this to be my most open record, uncynical, naive, unguarded, the record teenage me wanted to make. I used to balance my clock radio on a wardrobe to catch the faint pirate FM signals from the nearest city, dreaming of what raves would be like when I could finally escape and become a New Age traveller”.
The album is out on 31 Mar, and Holden will perform live at EartH in London on 13 Apr. Listen to ‘Contains Multitudes’ here:
