IMELDA MAY TOPS UK AMERICANA CHART AND NO. 5 IN UK ALBUM CHART
WITH CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM
‘LIFE. LOVE. FLESH. BLOOD’
UK TOUR IN MAY & JUNE INCLUDING NIGHT AT LONDON PALLADIUM
WITH CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM
‘LIFE. LOVE. FLESH. BLOOD’
UK TOUR IN MAY & JUNE INCLUDING NIGHT AT LONDON PALLADIUM
OUT NOW!
“May has
made the album of her life” - Daily
Telegraph
Irish
superstar singer and songwriter Imelda
May topped the UK Americana chart (Friday
April 28, 2017) with her highly praised new album - ‘Life. Love. Flesh. Blood’ and landed No.5 (16,800
sales) in the Official UK
album chart (her second UK top 5), ahead of artists including Texas and
Drake with her strongest first sales week ever in the UK, and the album
has debuted at No.2 in her native Ireland.
Howard Mills of the Americana
Music Association UK stated, “Imelda May has become a firm favourite with
the Americana community in the UK, adding a touch of glamour as a presenter at
our Awards show this year. We are over the moon to see her fabulous new album
hit the top spot on the Official Americana Albums chart.”
Imelda
has had a jam-packed week of promotion around her new record, including
appearing live this morning on Chris
Evans BBC Radio 2 show where she performed a brilliant cover of U2’s ‘I
Still Haven’t Found What I Was Looking For’. Listen again here. and HERE
Earlier
this week, Imelda joined the Guardian for a webchat where she discussed a range of
topics and questions sent in by fans including what is like to learn Bob Dylan
is a fan of your music, followed by a rammed HMV in-store on Oxford Street,
where she performed an acoustic set of material from her new album ‘Life. Love.
Flesh. Blood’.
Imelda
begins her extensive 2017 UK Headline Tour next week, which will include a
night at The London Palladium on 18 May. A string of shows in the US and Canada
in June follows, including three dates as support for Elvis Costello.
‘Life.
Love. Flesh. Blood’ is one of the most critically acclaimed albums of this
year. Praised by publications including Q, Uncut and Mojo (“A powerful new
direction”), The Sun, The Mirror to the Mail On Sunday (who made it Album Of
The Week, gave it four stars and stated: “Great albums tend to be growers, but
this one grabs you at first acquaintance”). Support also comes from The
Guardian, The Daily Telegraph (comparing it to Bob Dylan’s classic album ‘Blood
On The Tracks’) alongside support from US industry publications Rolling Stone
and Billboard Magazine as well as UK tastemaker music publications from The Arts
Desk to The Four Oh Five.
“This is
the unmistakeable sound of an artist finally, thrillingly, finding her own
voice” **** Evening Standard
“11
strong songs which ache, break, and twang as craftily as they do sincerely” ****
Q
“This is
a triumphant rebirth” **** Daily Mirror
“It’s a
hugely effective, beautifully crafted reboot that should open up new audiences
and point to future triumphs” **** The
Sun
“An album
that wears its heart on its sleeve” **** Daily
Mail
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