WILD NOTHING LIFE of PAUSE -LP/CD • Past North American Sales for Nocturne: 30K + • Recorded in Los Angeles and Stockholm with Producer Thom Monahan
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WILD NOTHING LIFE OF PAUSE -LP/CD • Past North American sales for Nocturne: 30K + • Recorded in Los Angeles and Stockholm with producer Thom Monahan. Peter Bjorn & John’s John Eriksson and Medicine’s Brad Laner guest. • National college and specialty radio campaign via AAM When Jack Tatum began work on Life of Pause, his third full-length to date, he had lofty ambitions: Don’t just write another album; create another world. One with enough detail and texture and dimension that a listener could step inside, explore, and inhabit it as they see fit. “I desperately wanted for this to be the kind of record that would displace me,” he says. “I’m terrified by the idea of being any one thing, or being of any one genre. And whether or not I accomplish that, I know that my only hope of getting there is to constantly reinvent. That reinvention doesn’t need to be drastic, but every new record has to have its own identity, and it has to have a separate set of goals from what came before.” What came before: a rightfully acclaimed, much beloved display of singular pop craftsman- CT-232 ship. Tatum’s dreamy, unexpected 2010 debut, Gemini, was written while he was still a stu- dent at Virginia Tech University. Its equally disarming follow-up, 2012’s Nocturne, marked the 01. Reichpop first time he’d been able to bring his bedroom recordings into a studio, to be performed and 02. Lady Blue fully realized with the help of other musicians. There has been a set of wonderfully expansive 03. A Woman’s Wisdom EPs in between—each hinting at new directions and punctuating previous ideas—but with Life 04. Japanese Alice of Pause, Tatum delivers what he describes as his most “honest” and “mature” work yet, an 05. Life of Pause exquisitely arranged and beautifully recorded collection of songs that marry the immedi- 06. Alien ate with the indefinable. “I allowed myself to go down every route I could imagine even if it 07. To Know You ended up not working for me,” he says. “I owe it to myself to take as many risks as possible. 08. Adore Songs are songs and you have to allow yourself to be open to everything.” 09. TV Queen 10. Whenever I After a prolonged period of writing and experimentation, recording took place over several 11. Love Underneath My Thumb weeks in both Los Angeles and Stockholm, with producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Beachwood Sparks) helping Tatum in his search for a more natural and organically textured sound. In Sweden, in a studio once owned by ABBA, they enlisted Peter, Bjorn and John drummer John Ericsson and fellow Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra veteran TK, to contribute drums and marimba. In California, at Monahan’s home, Tatum collaborated with Medicine guitarist Brad Laner and a crew of saxophonists. From the hypnotic polyrhythms of “Reichpop” to the sugary howl of “Japanese Alice” to the hallucinogenic R&B of “A Woman’s LP UPC: 817949011772 Wisdom, the result is a complete, fully immersive listening environment. “I just kept things really LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s simple, writing as ideas came to me,” he says. “There’s definitely a different kind of ‘self’ in the LP BOXLOT: 45 picture this time around. There’s no real love lost, it’s much more a record of coming to terms EXPORT: NORTH AMERICA, and defining what it is that you have—your place, your relationships. I view every record as AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND an opportunity to write better songs. At the end of the day it still sounds like me, just new.” & JAPAN ONLY CD UPC: 817949011789 VINYL NON-RETURNABLE RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 19TH, 2016 CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: NORTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND O NLY Press: Sara Casella - [email protected] Sales : Pamela Garavano-Coolbaugh - [email protected].