Duncan Sheik New Album 'Covers 80s' out on June 7 + Spring Tour Dates
Grammy and Tony award winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik takes on the synth-pop era's classic and obscure songs on the upcoming Covers 80s.
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The album will include tracks by Dépêche Mode, Thompson Twins, New Order, The Cure, Love and Rockets, The Smiths, Tears for Fears and more.
Recognized for his theatrical Spring Awakening, Duncan Sheik makes this return to performing by covering the stand-alone pop songs of his teen years.
Sneaky Records/MRI will release the album on June 7, 2011 and tour dates will follow this spring.
Covers 80s features 12 highly personalized takes on the decade's smashes and lesser known gems.
"It is nice to sing these songs that are written by other people…you're inhabiting this other character that isn't you, but in this case, it is a part of what made me who I am," Sheik says. "The litmus test for me for choosing the songs was: Did I really, really care about it when I was 15 or 16?"
Nine of the tracks feature the vocals of singer songwriter Rachel Yamagata. The closing song, "The Ghost in You," actually dates back to Sheik's most recent album Whisper House, where it served as a bonus track. Whisper House is collection of songs from a musical of the same name that followed Spring Awakening.
Launching his musical career in 1996 with his self-titled debut Duncan Sheik, he quickly earned a Grammy nomination for "Best Male Vocal." He subsequently garnered critical accolades for his unique brand of folk-pop music.
Duncan Sheik's last studio album was 2006's White Limousine. He also released a 2-CD collection of songs titled Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology. Sheik then composed the original score and collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater for 2007's Spring Awakening, which went on to win eight Tony awards. Sheik alone earned two awards for "Best Orchestration" and "Best Original Score" as well as a Grammy award for "Best Musical Show Album." He followed with musical theater production Whisper House, which was directed by Peter Askin (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and written by Kyle Jarrow.
"Mr. Sheik's voice emerged like a prince on a horseback out of a quasi-orchestral midst." - The New York Times
Track Listing for Covers 80s:
Stripped - Dépêche Mode
Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
Love Vigilante - New Order
Kyoto - The Cure
What Is Love - Howard Jones
So Alive - Love & Rockets
Shout - Tears for Fears
Gentleman Take Pictures - Japan
Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk
William It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
Stay - The Blue Nile
The Ghost in You - Psychedelic Furs
Duncan Sheik 2011 spring tour dates:
(Dates and information subject to change.)
June 2011
June 8 Highline Ballroom New York, NY
June 9 Brighton Music Hall Boston, MA
June 11 Birchmere Alexandria, VA
June 12 World Café Live Philadelphia, PA
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