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Rag’n’Bone Man announces new album ‘Life By Misadventure’
Rag’n’Bone Man has announced his upcoming album, Life By Misadventure, featuring the new single ‘All You Ever Wanted’.
Propelled by choppy rhythm guitars, the track sees him draw inspiration from his past. “I’d felt sad looking around Brighton and London where I grew up,” he said, “remembering all those cool places that aren’t there anymore.”
Rag’n’Bone Man’s 2017 landmark debut Human was a phenomenal success. Shooting straight to No.1 upon release in the UK, the 4x Platinum record became the fasted-selling album by a male artist that decade, earning him both BRIT and Ivor Novello Awards.
Fast forwarding a few years, he travelled to Nashville to write and record what would become Life By Misadventure. The bulk of the album was produced and recorded by Grammy Award-winning producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Elizondo at his studio. Longtime collaborators Ben Jackson-Cook (keys, co-songwriter and co-producer of the album), Bill Banwell (bass and co-songwriter) and Desri Ramus (backing vocals) are joined by drummer Daru Jones and guitarist Wendy Melvoin on the record. One song was even recorded in Rag’n’Bone Man’s garage!
“We had quite a time to live with the songs this time around,” Rag’n’Bone Man explains. “Too often, how I’d done things before, was that we’d written a song and I had to sing it the same day, and that was the version we’d use on the album. This way, it was far easier to get real emotion into the music.”
