U.K. imprint Cooking Vinyl today announced it has signed Alison Moyet to a worldwide deal with plans to release the former Yazoo singer’s eighth studio album this May, an electronic-based collection that signer describes both as “prog-pop” and “born of reconstructed improvisation.” It will be Moyet’s first album in six years.
No release date or title has been revealed for the album, which is produced by Guy Sigsworth, known for working with Madonna, Bjork and Seal. The new album will be Moyet’s first since releasing The Turn in 2007, and her first since re-teaming with Erasure’s Vince Clarke for a rapturously received 2008 Yazoo reunion tour and subsequent live album.
In a statement, Moyet says:
“It is a very happy place I find myself in. I am more than delighted to be joining Cooking Vinyl and working with a company of people that support the direction I have taken for my eighth solo studio album. … With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away from a generic line up and back into the world of a programmer. Born of reconstructed improvisation I like to think of it as prog-pop, but I also like to think of big dogs as small horses. So don’t hang on to that thought long. Unless, of course, you think it astute of me in which case I am right.”
Cooking Vinyl’s Rob Collins adds:
“Alison is a legend and has made an outstanding record on her own terms. I think a lot of people will be surprised, in a good way, about how amazing the record is.”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Yazoo singles, album cuts, mixes assembled on ‘The Collection’ double-disc set
- Alison Moyet to play trio of ‘Rare & Obscured’ club dates in London this fall
- Video: Yazoo, Erasure, The Assembly, most of Depeche Mode at Short Circuit Presents Mute
- Video: Billy Bragg, Alison Moyet pay tribute to Kirsty MacColl at London benefit concert
- Yazoo to include ‘Get Set,’ unreleased ’83 track, with ‘Reconnected Live’ on iTunes
- Stream 4 songs off Yazoo’s ‘Reconnected Live’
Very excited about this! And the fact that it’s an electronic album makes it even better! Her last album was good and her voice was incredible as always, but it was so mellow. Over the holidays, she posted on Facebook that there is only one ballad on this new collection.
Can’t wait to hear this album!
Hey Cooking Vinyl! I’m sitting on a kick-ass album. Sign me!
Awesome news! Alison totally paved the way for Adele.
I am psyched out of my mind to hear this.