Scissor Sisters Perform New Single 'Only The Horses' On BBC's The Voice - Watch Now
Monday, 14 May 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
Today Scissor Sisters release their brand new single ‘Only The Horses’. The track is the first official single to be taken from their new album ‘Magic Hour’, which is out on May 28th, through Polydor.
The New York quartet performed the track live on BBC’s talent show The Voice last night ahead of their two intimate Shepherds Bush headline shows later on this week. You can buy the track here.
To celebrate the launch of the single, Scissor Sisters set live an interactive Facebook app that allows fans to preview clips from Scissor Sisters’ new record along the Zebra theme of the album’s artwork. By starting the app and listening to the tracks, fans experience a social listening party – a fan populated Zebra Crowd, all tweeting #MagicHour to become a dancing zebra, as music clips are previewed. To use the app visit here.
“It’s a sweet joyful mélange of beat-driven future-pop,” says Jake Shears of the new record ‘Magic Hour’. “It style-hops all over the place unabashedly.”
‘Magic Hour’ is the result of a series of team-ups between Scissor Sisters - 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 was a pretty collaborative effort,” says Jake of ‘Magic Hour’, which was recorded in New York and London. “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)
‘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.
Scissor Sisters will perform at Shepherds Bush Empire this Wednesday and Thursday, the 16th and 17th May.
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