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Release Date: 01/10/2012

It has been nine years since Tim Burgess released a solo album, but the opening track on Oh No I Love You makes it feel like nine minutes. Hammond-drenched and bright with brass, White is a loose and playful fusion of Lambchop-slanted Americana and northern soul that shows Burgess at his best. It’s so persuasively idiosyncratic, you could almost miss that the song ? indeed, the entire album ? isn’t simply inspired by Kurt Wagner’s raggle-taggle country orchestra, but is a collaboration with them. With every giveaway violin trill and lilting pedal-steel melody, the guiding hand of producer Mark Nevers becomes more evident, while Burgess, in delivering Wagner’s lyrics, increasingly gives the impression that he is performing top-end karaoke, cracking his voice slightly for A Case for Vinyl, or semi-speaking the line, “I saw Casper the Ghost on your old cereal box.” It’s an appealing synthesis, particularly on Tobacco Fields, in which every instrument, and Burgess’s unusually delicate voice, shiver between melancholy and joy. SUPER DELUXE DOUBLE VINYL INCLUDES CD, BONUS REMIX VINYL EP AND 12 INCH AMOUNT HAND SIGNED