After You

Jack Peñate announces the release of his third album ‘After You’. Over a decade in the making, the album was produced in collaboration with Paul Epworth, Inflo and Alex Epton. Former Spankrock member turned producer and jazz drummer Alex Epton came on board and set to bring together 10 years’ worth of work into a cohesive album in XL’s New York studio, adding in additional programming and production as well as drums and percussion. Paul Epworth, with whom he created ‘Everything Is New’, came back in and worked on several tracks. The album doesn’t just draw on Jack Peñate’s musical journey of the past ten years, it brings in influences from the music he heard as a child. As a child his brother would play him jungle and here’s elements of that too. His dad ran acid house raves - that’s in there. But perhaps the most poignant track is ‘Gemini’. With nothing more than piano, vibraphone and drum beat, the words of Peñate’s grandfather, the writer and artist Mervyn Peake, are read by his uncle Fabian. If Peñate’s ambition was to be able to make a sound that sounded like a feeling felt and to be able to master studio production and to be able to have longevity in his career, then it’s safe to say that with ‘After You’ that ambition has been realised.

Tracks

1~1~Prayer
1~2~Loaded Gun
1~3~Round And Round
1~4~Cipralex
1~5~Murder
1~6~Gemini
1~7~Let Me Believe
1~8~Gmt
1~9~Ancient Skin
1~10~Swept To The Sky

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Jack Peate
Release Date: 29 November 2019
Genre: Soul
Label: XL RECORDINGS
Distributor: Inertia Music