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Keaton Henson Announces 'Lucky' EP Release Date
Tuesday, 17 July 2012 Written by Elliott Batte
Keaton Henson Announces 'Lucky' Release Date

Alternative pop singer Keaton Henson has announced that he’ll release his brand new ‘Lucky’ EP on July 23rd

The announcement follows a wealth of critical acclaim for the Rough Trade Album of the Month, ‘Dear...’, and early playlists from Radio 1 and XFM. Having been made one of iTunes’ 12 Ones To Watch for 2012 alongside the likes of Lana Del Rey and Michael Kiwanuka, Keaton recently released a stunning video for ‘To Your Health’, which was broadcasted as part of Channel 4’s Random Acts series.

The ‘Lucky EP’ will mark an official release for Keaton’s breakthrough moment, ‘You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are’: an unlikely heartbreak anthem, but one which has already accelerated Henson’s word-of-mouth success. Written and recorded alone and at home, the song (like Henson’s music as a whole) was never intended to be heard by anyone.

Then Zane Lowe heard 'You Don't Know How Lucky You Are' and threatened to play it twice in one show, sparking a frenzy of Twitter investigations into Keaton’s identity. Responses mixed between the obsessive – setting up Facebook and Tumblr sites, claiming to be him – and the concerned (sample tweet: “who was she Keaton Henson? WHO DID THIS TO YOU?”). At the centre of it all was an increasingly mystified Henson, whose private agony had, overnight, gone public.

Six months on, and Keaton has released his beautiful debut album, ‘Dear...’, together with a brace of singles; including ‘Small Hands’, whose quietly devastating video has amassed more than a quarter of a million views. Henson has now revisited ‘You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are’ together with a selection of new material: a cover of 'Maps' by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ‘Mary Celeste’, and the stunning ‘To Your Health’. The ‘Lucky EP’ will also be released in a physical bundle, limited to 50 copies, and available through Keaton’s web-store..

Each bundle will contain the four track EP on CD, a t-shirt featuring the words ‘I Cry to Keaton Henson’ (only 50 copies will be made) and a wooden die made by the architectural artist Joely Brammer: 49 of the dice will feature the word “unlucky” on every side, hand-written by Keaton, and the one remaining die will bear the word “lucky”. This lucky dice will entitle the recipient to choose any song for Keaton to cover.

You can check out the ‘To Your Health’ video below.

Keaton Henson - To Your Health (Channel 4 version) from Keaton Henson on Vimeo.

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