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The Posies call in guests for new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 4 August 2010
Having taken time out to perform with Big Star in recent years, Posies founders Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer have announced that they will release a new album, their first for five years, on 27 Sep. Entitled ‘Blood/Candy’, Stringfellow revealed that the band brought in Broken Social Scene’s Lisa Lobsinger and Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell to provide guest vocals on two tracks.
Stringfellow said: “It is kind of a first for us. It’s a really cool spread of artists from different generations though, so it’s very versatile. Our drummer Darius [Minwalla] knows Lisa, so we hung out and had some wine at this festival in Seattle and it went from there. She has a very pure voice and for me the track she appears on with me is very bombastic and over the top in a wonderfully melodic way, a bit like a Broadway song”.
He continued: “It was really cool having Hugh on there because we’ve never had a British voice on one of our albums. It’s similar to some of The Stranglers songs. He speaks the words and I thought that’d be perfect for this song. It’s just so cool, as soon as he starts speaking, he goes, ‘hard man’ in that weird way”.
Since the band began recording the album in February, of course, Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel of Big Star have both died, making it highly doubtful that they will return to that band again.
You can catch The Posies live in London at The Garage on 5 Oct.
