Adam Franklin & the Bolts of Melody to release album in June

Adam Franklin & the Bolts of Melody
announce the release of I Could Sleep For a Thousand Years on June 29!

From 1990 to 1998 Adam Franklin was the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for London-based Swerve­driver; contemporaries of and label mates with My Bloody Valentine and Ride but with a more adrenalized rock ‘n’ roll sound, showing flashes of Husker Du and Sonic Youth. Then from 1999 to 2006 Adam recorded and toured as Toshack Highway, a gentler but no less inventive folky/electronic/film-soundtracky hybrid, releasing a full album and flurry of EPs, split releases, seven inch singles and the like.

In 2007 an album that had started out as the next Toshack Highway release became the first album to be released under the moniker Adam Franklin and was titled Bolts of Melody - which also became the name of Adam’s adaptable, forever-changing and quite formidable live group. Sometimes a rock ‘n’ roll four-piece and at times expanding to take in pedal steel and piano, the live band and album showcased a return of sorts to the searing, guitar-constructed songwriting style Franklin’s followers were familiar with from Swervedriver days, but also with an air of the musical experimentation more redolent of the Toshack era.

In 2008 Franklin found time not only to tour once again with the re-ignited Swervedriver as they were rapturously received on their first tour for a decade, but also to tour and record the debut album of Magnetic Morning, his new collaboration with Sam Fogarino of Interpol, and record - with the Bolts of Melody band - the second Adam Franklin release, Spent Bullets.

Bullets walks beyond the ground broken on Bolts and is a more direct, varied and satisfying album than ever before. The power and melody that has always coursed through the veins of Adam’s electric songs is in full effect on tunes such as "Surge," "Teardrops Keep Fallin’ out My Head" and "Autumn Leaf." And then in the likes of "Big Sur," "Champs: or "End Credits," there are all sorts of other unexpected and intriguing sonic fingerprints - smudged evocations of Scott Walker soundtracking a French spy movie or The Temptations refracted through side three of Electric Ladyland perhaps. In short, some of the most sonically beautiful songs of Franklin’s career converge on one disc that aims straight for the heart.

ADAM FRANKLIN & BOLTS OF MELODY
I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years Tracklisting
Yesterday Has Gone Forever
I’ll Be Yr Mechanic
She’s Closer Than I’ve Ever Been
I Want You Right Now
Mary Gunn
Carousel City
Guernica
Spent Bullets
Sinking Ships
The Road Is Long
Lord Help Me Jesus, I’ve Wasted A Soul
Take Me To My Leader

US tour to be announced soon
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