Joshua Radin Announces 'Underwater' Release Date
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Monday, 09 July 2012 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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American singer-songwriter Joshua Radin is pleased to announce the release of his fourth album 'Underwater', out July 30th.
This new release finds Joshua working with an array of accomplished musicians, including Benmont Tench, Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, John Lennon) and string arranger Jimmie Haskell (Simon & Garfunkel). Joshua recently premiered material from the album at an exclusive showcase at Montague House, the private London residence where John Lennon lived and worked.
Since childhood, doctors warned Joshua Radin - who, as a toddler suffered a punctured eardrum - that he ran a grave risk of piercing pain if he ever immersed himself in water. “I said, ‘Alright, I’m just going to live my life on land,’” he explained. That changed last year. He was penning Underwater in Los Angeles in near seclusion - an antidote to the last two years of being crammed on a tour bus with his band. And one day, he woke up and realized there was inspiration in the Pacific. So he bought earplugs and took the plunge. “It was mind-blowingly cool,” he says. Even when I’m sleeping in bed, I can hear my heartbeat. I never realized the silence one experiences underwater. My brain was totally free to come up with a melody line, and that’s where this album began, underwater.”
That hope continues to trickle through the album in tracks such as the sweeping ‘Anywhere Your Love Goes’ and the gently ambling ‘Let It Go’ (about that time he jumped in his friend’s convertible and high-tailed it up the Coast). ‘Underwater’ is a more mature offering from Radin, who recruited a dream team of musicians to enhance his sound. Among them: pianist Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), drummer Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, John Lennon), and string arranger Jimmie Haskell (Simon and Garfunkel).
Radin will put Underwater’s timelessness to the test this summer, touring throughout the world - so stay with Stereoboard for any tour updates.
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