The concept for Fred again..‘s new album is simple: “My new record is called ten days,” Fred said in a statement. “It’s ten songs about ten days.” Those 10 songs, due out Sept. 6, feature collaborations with Anderson .Paak, Four Tet, Skrillex, Emmylou Harris, among others. Three tracks from the album, “adore u” (featuring Obongjayar), “ten” (featuring Jozzy and Jim Legxacy), and “places to be” (featuring Anderson .Paak and Chika) that have come out over the past year are available to stream now.
As simple as it is, though, Fred explained the ten days concept further on Instagram: “There’s been a lot of biggg, mad, crazy moments in the last year but basically all of these are about really very small quiet intimate moments,” he wrote. “Some of them are, like, the most intensely joyful things I have felt, and some of them are the other side of things. And some days I don’t want to speak about loads ‘cos I’m not the only person it was an important day for if that makes sense.”
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If that doesn’t make sense, that’s OK because the record will also feature appearances by Obongjayar, Jozzy, Jim Legxacy, Sampha, Soak, Chika, Duskus, Joy Anonymous, the Japanese House, and Scott Hardkiss.
Patient Fred again.. fans will be able to buy ten days on vinyl on Oct. 25. That edition, pressed to white vinyl, includes a poster with 10 images representing each of the 10 tracks, and “personal thanks and individual track notes written by Fred.” It will cost more than 10 bucks.
Earlier this month, Fred again.. played his first stadium concert in Los Angeles where he built six individual states. Nearly 80,000 people showed up. “I think the challenge to me at the [L.A.] Coliseum was I really wanted to find ways that I could connect as much as possible to people in this vast space,” he said in a Rolling Stone article. “Which is why … we built this thing all the way around that I could walk along. That meant I could walk to the different stages.”
ten days track list:
1. “adore u”
2. “ten”
3. “fear less”
4. “just stand there”
5. “places to be”
6. “glow”
7. “i saw you”
8. “where will i be”
9. “peace u need”
10. “backseat”
From Rolling Stone US
