James Holden announces new album

completemusicupdate.com:

James Holden has announced that he will release new album ‘Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities’ in March – his first LP since 2017’s ‘The Animal Spirits’.Out now is new single ‘Contains Multitudes’.

The ten minute track is actually split into two parts, starting out with fast-paced synth and tabla before slowing down to a sombre piano and violin piece.“I’d been looking at John Stezaker’s collages”, he explains, “where things collide and it feels like it opens a window into them, thinking a lot about musical approaches to that idea, then the end part of this just appeared in my head as I listened to the loops of the beginning part.

The two songs are opposite musics but also completely contained inside one another”.Of the album more widely, he says: “I wanted this to be my most open record, uncynical, naive, unguarded, the record teenage me wanted to make.

I used to balance my clock radio on a wardrobe to catch the faint pirate FM signals from the nearest city, dreaming of what raves would be like when I could finally escape and become a New Age traveller”.The album is out on 31 Mar, and Holden will perform live at EartH in London on 13 Apr.