Scissor Sisters Unveil Artwork & Tracklist For 'Magic Hour' & Debut New 'Only The Horses' Video
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
Scissor Sisters have just unveiled the music video for their new single, ‘Only The Horses’ out on May 20th. The New York band have also released more information about their fourth album ‘Magic Hour’, which comes out on 28th May through Polydor.
Directed by Lorenzo Fonda, who has previously created videos for artists including Metronomy, Jamie Woon and Bright Eyes, the clip is suitably exuberant, full of bright colours and, of course, an equine twist.
‘Only The Horses’ was co-produced with Calvin Harris. The band’s relationship with Calvin started when Jake Shears was working with him on material for Kylie Minogue’s 'Aphrodite' album. “When we wrote ‘Horses’, I immediately knew that he'd help knock it out of the park,” says Jake.
New album ‘Magic Hour’ is the result of a series of team-ups between Scissor Sisters - Jake Shears, Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Del Marquis and Randy Real - and a whole host of stellar artists, writers and producers, including Azealia Banks, Calvin Harris, Stuart Price, Pharrell Williams, Diplo and Alex Rihda, the German electronic music producer and DJ behind BoysNoize.
“It’s a sweet joyful mélange of beat-driven future-pop,”says vocalist Jake Shears of the new record ‘Magic Hour’. “It style-hops all over the place unabashedly.”
“It was a pretty collaborative effort,” Jake continues. “We made it really fast. We had a week in June 2011 when we wrote ‘Only The Horses’ and a couple of other songs that didn’t make the album, then we started back at it at the beginning of September.”
‘Magic Hour’ track-listing is as follows:
1. Baby Come Home
2. Keep Your Shoes On
3. Inevitable
4. Only The Horses
5. Year of Living Dangerously
6. Let's Have a Kiki
7. Shady Love
8. San Luis Obispo
9. Self Control
10. Best in Me
11. The Secret Life of Letters
12. Somewhere
13. Ms. Matronic’s Magic Message
14. F*** Yeah (BONUS TRACK)
15. Let’s Have a Kiki – DJ Nita remix (BONUS TRACK)
16. F*** Yeah – Seamus Haji remix (BONUS TRACK)
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“It’s a sweet joyful mélange of beat-driven future-pop,”says vocalist Jake Shears of the new record ‘Magic Hour’. “It style-hops all over the place unabashedly.”
