The Waterboys have offered up the second taste of the band’s upcoming double albumin the form of “Payo Payo Chin,”another example of bandleader Mike Scott’s promise to employ more modern production values and styles in his new music.
The track, which you can stream below, comes from the 23-song Out Of All This Blue, due to be released Sept. 8 digitally and on double CD and double vinyl, as well as deluxe triple CD and triple vinyl editions with 11 bonus tracks. Scott has said his new songs feature “echoes of classic R&B, country, soul and funk … underpinned by modern hip-hop production values and rhythms.”
Scott recently posted the following on Facebook about the making of the record:
“I started making this record after the band’s spring 2015 North American tour. I always come back from touring America inspired and hungry to write, and this time I even came back with the first few songs completed on the road, most unusual for me. They were Nashville, Tennessee, which I wrote on the day of our gig in that city (it was the encore that night, complete with audience participation every time something familiar came up in the lyrics), and the love song Santa Fe. And as soon as I got home the other songs started to flow. I was inspired by having such a killer line–up of the Waterboys at the time, with David Hood from Muscle Shoals, Zach from Austin and Brother Paul from Memphis on bass, guitar and keyboards. Those boys lifted me and I felt I was writing stuff for them to play.”
Check out the new song below.
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