{"id":101447,"date":"2023-05-09T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/09\/albert-hammond-jr-shares-first-half-of-new-album-melodies-on-hiatus\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T08:27:22","slug":"albert-hammond-jr-shares-first-half-of-new-album-melodies-on-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/09\/albert-hammond-jr-shares-first-half-of-new-album-melodies-on-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Hammond Jr. Shares First Half Of New Album &#8216;Melodies On Hiatus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. stunned many people by making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2219110\/albert-hammond-jr-100-99-feat-goldlink\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lead single and opening observe<\/a> from his new album a collaboration with DC rapper Goldlink and experimenting with Auto-Tune. There are extra surprises the place that got here from. Hammond\u2019s new 19-track album <em>Melodies On Hiatus<\/em> doesn\u2019t drop in full till late June, however the first 9 songs are out now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is the best collection of music that I have made,\u201d Hammond wrote in an announcement accompanying <em>Melodies On Hiatus<\/em>. \u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to make a double album; I wanted to make a deconstruction of a band.\u201d He wrote the album long-distance with Simon Wilcox, who penned lyrics to go along with Hammond\u2019s melodies. Later the assertion continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I used to be in a single place after I made the album after which one other place now, and the music and lyrics nonetheless hit as laborious. That\u2019s the that means of it. I wrote it in a technique, life ended up otherwise, and it nonetheless resonates with me. I believe it has a narrative, an arc, and I attempted to make it different musically and melodically so it felt like one thing spanning a profession and never simply an album. This is that this man\u2019s life, sonically.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hear the primary half of that story under, the place you too can discover the video for brand new single \u201cOld Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/06NbI8mRE1dqOm2zP99kBe?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"embedPlayer\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/melodies-on-hiatus\/1675579222?app=music&amp;itsct=music_box_player&amp;itscg=30200&amp;ls=1&amp;theme=auto\" height=\"450px\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-write\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px; transform: translateZ(0px); animation: 2s ease 0s 6 normal none running loading-indicator; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The remainder of <em>Melodies On Hiatus<\/em> is out 6\/23 on Red Bull.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '514545615712257');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. stunned many people by making the lead single and opening observe from his new album a collaboration with DC rapper Goldlink and experimenting with Auto-Tune. 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