Johnny Foreigner Reveal New Single ‘Their Shining Path’ - out now!
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Taken from their sixth studio album:
"How To Be Hopeful"
Out 13th September 2024
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Preceded by an introductory companion set:
"the sky and sea were part of me, or I was part of them"
Out Now
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As always, via Alcopop Records.
London Release Party w/ Tellison, Dags, Other Half! 20th September 2024 Bush Hall
Birmingham Release Party w/ Tellison, Dags Slash Fiction! 21st September 2024 Hare and Hounds
Statement from the band:
On the eve of our Big Important Album Release, we are proud and excited to share a lil sneak preview: ‘Their Shining Path’, out 4/9/24.
It took us about a year to work out the shape and palette for this record; Actual love and giddy optimism not exactly being traditional anchors for Johnny Foreigner. One of the defining moments was a 3am conversation with someone I'm not 100% sure was a regular mortal human, in a hotel smoking area coincidentally (magic) a few minutes walk from JT Soars where we'd start recording it.
This is that story, neatly ghost-trapped in a 2.45 guitar pop song. Not sure if the title references them, or us, or my partner, or is just our final evolution of casually stealing from the late great Urusei Yatsura. Either way, it's an immense pleasure to just shout joyous shouts into the void.
X Alexei
More about How To Be Hopeful:
Feels like a huge privilege to release a loud righteous rock record about finding love and joy in the universe at a point where such things are in such universal short supply. This release is 28 months past deadline; our timing has always sucked. But honestly we've had little choice; How to be Hopeful is a pure product of chaos magic. It compelled us to be made, to harness returning ripples of stones long since thrown. It felt way too significant, too personal, too full of moments worth savouring and patterns playing out, to rush. Also, we are old and have real jobs now.
It's actually 2 matched parallel soundtracks, 1 per side, for a 12 month period where the worst, then the weirdest, then the best possible things happened. Same series of events, different ripples, chaos and consequence and everything connected This is our celebration record, our fell-in-love-and-stopped-worrying album, the glowing cathartic coda that we couldn't help but channel. The least Johnny Foreigner of albums; nearly 3 years of obsessive planning and constructing, executive produced by 2007 anti-nostalgia us, and 2016 us who stopped being a band when we ran out of things worth singing about.
Thru one of many strings of strange coincidence (magic) we were able to utilise our absolute -DREAM TEAM- of present day humans; Dominique James recorded at JT Soars, Bob Cooper produced and Machine mastered. Of course, this is an Alcopop! record, cosigned by our Japanese label Shore&Woods. じゃあ、またね !
Release details to follow in time, but for now please meet "the sky and sea were part of me or I was part of them"; an introductory compilation comprising of 2 songs from the album proper, 3 exclusives produced by Evan Bernard, and assorted ancillary materiel / haunted piano.
Those two album songs are "What The Alexei" which is both our first actual love song and a potentially libelous homage to the best sad single indieboy song that raised us, and "Orc Damage", a grim recounting of corporate greed, collateral damage and the collapsing end of an era.
Bedazzled, not blunted.
Alexei / Junior / Kelly / Lewes 2024
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Johnny Foreigner are a 4 piece indie rock band from the UK's second city. Between 2007 - 2016 they released 5 albums and 7 Eps, starting with DrownedinSound's inaugural Pluto Prize winner, culminating with a final album deep dive on Pitchfork. They toured on 4 continents, received a simultaneous 3/10 and 9/10 for the same record in NME, played every festival except Glastonbury, became just as notorious for their merch line as their DIY ethos.....and proved their many critics wrong by consistently failing to make a career out of it.
They always said they'd reform if they had the songs for it, but they didn't ever actually expect that to happen. They are also obsessively aware how many reunion records miss the mark, and long lost objectivity on this one. As such they eagerly await yr criticism and comment, cushioned by the knowledge they fully exorcised their own ghosts, on their own terms. Thank you for yr time.
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Johnny Foreigner Live Dates:
9/20 London - Bush Hall
9/21 Birmingham - Hare and Hounds
Tickets: http://www.johnnyforeignertheband.com
How To Be Hopeful album tracklist:
01 - Roisin Does Advice Now
02 - The Blazing World
03 - What The Alexei
04 - Museum of Useless Things
05 - Orc Damage.
06 - Okay 1 More!
07 - This Is A Joke
08 - Dark Tetris.
09 - Their Shining Path
10 - A Sea To Scream At
11 - Emily and Alex
12 - We Build This City
The band:
http://www.johnnyforeignertheband.com
https://www.facebook.com/johnnyforeigner
https://twitter.com/lexkelandjun
