Claire Richards My Wildest Dreams (Sony Music) – February 1 It’s safe to say that Steps’ 2017 comeback album Tears On The Avril Lavigne Dancefl oor proved a lot of people wrong… It has sold 119,419 copies to date according to Offi cial Charts Company data. Now, Claire Head Above Water (BMG) – Richards is back with her debut solo album on Sony. February 15 It’s now been – brace yourselves, Carly Rae Jepsen folks – 17 years since Avril Lavigne TBC (Interscope) – TBC fi rst stormed onto the music And to think, there were people out there who thought the Call Me scene with her 20-million selling Maybe singer was a one hit wonder… Pff t. Still riding high on the debut, Let Go. This year she’s critical acclaim of 2015’s Emotion, Jepsen unveiled her comeback back with her sixth studio album, anthem Party For One in November 2018 and promised, “This song Head Above Water – which is represents a lot of what this album is about for me which is also her fi rst since bouncing back romantic love but self-love too.” from contracting Lyme Disease. It has been teed-up by two singles David Gray so far: the title track (which Gold In A Brass Age (IHT/AWAL) – March 8 David Needleman she performed live on Jimmy Three years on from releasing his Best Of collection, the White Kimmel) and the heartbreak Ladder singer returns with a new 11-track album, including recent PHOTO: anthem Tell Me It’s Over. singles The Sapling and A Tight Ship.

Jack Savoretti for a new 12-track collection that is said to draw on infl uences such as “The Clash, Beastie Boys, The Singing To Strangers (BMG) – March 15 Prodigy, Rebel MC, Green Day and Run DMC”. Following on from his two previous gold-selling records, Jack Savoretti returns with Singing To Maren Morris Strangers. Produced by Cam Blackwood (George TBC (Columbia) – TBC Ezra), the 12-track album features a co-write with Bob Music Week’s former On The Radar star is set for Dylan, Touchy Situation. There is also a collaboration a huge 2019. Following 2016’s Grammy-nominated with Kylie Minogue on Music’s Too Sad Without You, debut Hero, slots opening up on Niall Horan’s which appears as a live version recorded in Venice. tour and her Zedd collaboration The Middle going Ellie Goulding stratospheric in 2018, Morris has established herself as one of Nashville’s biggest modern names. Morris TBC (Polydor) – TBC confi rmed the follow-up is complete. The 1975 After a lot of waiting, Ellie Goulding is expected to Notes On A Conditional Form (Dirty Hit) – TBC release her fourth studio album in 2019. The omens Maggie Rogers Ever since Dirty Hit founder Jamie Oborne told Music Week look good for it fi nally arriving, too, with Goulding Heard It In A Past Life (Polydor) – January 18 that The 1975 would follow November’s chart-topping A Brief already joining forces with Diplo & Swae Lee for Fresh from a major US TV appearance on Saturday Inquiry Into Online Relationships with another new album comeback single Close To Me. Tracks confi rmed by Night Live, producer/songwriter/performer Maggie this year, the group’s fanbase has been foaming at the mouth Goulding include Love I’m Given, Flux and Electricity. Rogers releases her new album, Heard It In A Past with excitement. Slated for a June release, the album has Rat Boy with Tim Armstrong Life, this month. It will include previous singles Alaska, been described by Healy as “a night-time record” with bass On + Off , Fallingwater, Give A Little and Light On. Internationally Unknown (Parlophone/Hellcat) master Burial cited as a sonic touchstone. Naturally, there’s a – January 25 Bryan Adams loquacious soundbite from the man himself: “I’m just making Following on from his debut album, Rat Boy is Shine A Light (Polydor) – March 1 records,” he told Dazed. “I’ve got to always want to be making teaming up with Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong More than four decades into his career, Bryan Adams my masterpiece. Otherwise what’s the point?” returns in March with his brand new studio album Shine A Light. The album will be supported by a major promotional TV/radio campaign on release and Foals Adams will tour the UK in February/March, including a Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Parts 1 & 2 (Warner) – TBC stop at London’s SSE Arena, Wembley. Speaking of double album releases, last week Foals shared a teaser trailer that said “Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 Part 2 Ward Thomas 2019”. On Instagram, they confi rmed it will be two separate records. Restless Minds (WTW Music/Sony Music) – February 8 Krept & Konan Hidden away in the Hampshire countryside, Ward TBC (Virgin EMI) – TBC Thomas have been cooking up the follow-up to Last year Stormzy hailed Krept & Konan as “UK rap royalty”. He’s not their 2016 album Cartwheels, which made history wrong. The pair have sold-out Ally Pally and even launched their own as the fi rst UK country record to top the charts. On restaurant, Crepes & Cones in Croydon. With new single Pour Me it, sisters Catherine and Lizzy address the pressures Another One gathering streams apace, their second studio album is facing young people, mental health and social media expected to emerge in spring/summer. Dave chief among them, while songwriting hook ups with Sleaford Mods TBC (Dave) – TBC Ed Drewett (Little Mix) and Rachel Furner (Craig Eton Alive (Extreme Eating) – February 22 With a No.1 single and an Ivor Novello award under David) suggest their most expansive statement yet. Sleaford Mods may already have pilfered two honours for 2019, his belt already (not to mention a Music Week cover LCD Soundsystem namely: best album title (lol etc) and best single title (that would appearance alongside long-time collaborator Fraser Electric Lady Sessions (Columbia/DFA) – TBC be Kebab Spider, folks). Recorded in Nottingham, it is the fi rst to be T Smith and Raye), Dave will fi nally release his debut released on the pair’s own label Extreme Eating. LP in 2019. Back in the summer, the Streatham LCD Soundsystem’s new album Electric Lady Sessions rapper told us the as-yet-untitled album “is going was recorded live in its namesake studio. The fi rst Sundara Karma to be some of the best stuff I’ve ever done. I feel it’s song released so far is a cover of Heaven 17’s (We Ulfi las Alphabet (Chess Club/RCA) – March 1 going to be something special”. The wait is on. Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing. Sundara Karma release the follow up to their critically acclaimed,

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