{"title":"James Johnson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pete-doherty-james-johnston-the-whole-world-is-our-playground-12-cld","title":"Pete Doherty \u0026 James Johnston - The Whole World Is Our Playground - 12\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn April 16th 2016 Clouds Hill released a split double A side 12” as part of the worldwide ‘Record Store Day’. The release features the UK artists: Pete Doherty \u0026amp; James Johnston. The 12” was limited to 1,200 units worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 years after his debut solo album Grace\/Wastelands in 2009 the Libertines frontman Pete Doherty is due to release his 2nd solo album in the autumn of 2016 through Clouds Hill. The album (current working title: “Flags Of The Old Regime”) is due in Autumn 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGallon Drunk’s frontman, as well as guitarist for PJ Harvey, James Johnston will release his long awaited debut solo album also through Clouds Hill later this year. The 1st commercial single release is due before summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth live recordings from Pete Doherty and James Johnston were recorded at the Clouds Hill Festival in December 2015. The annual festival is held at the world renowned Clouds Hill Recordings studios in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePete Doherty - The Whole World Is Our Playground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePete Doherty - The Whole World Is Our Playground (performed live \u0026amp; acoustic)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames Johnston - Dark Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames Johnston - St. Martha's (performed live)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduct Details\u003cbr\u003e Formats: 12\" only\u003cbr\u003e Released: April 16th 2016\u003cbr\u003e Catalogue #: CH083\u003cbr\u003e Label: Clouds Hill\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clouds Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46947816538344,"sku":"4250795600985","price":7.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5517\/1048\/files\/PETER_JAMES_RESULT.jpg?v=1736274557"},{"product_id":"james-johnston-the-starless-room-cld","title":"James Johnston - The Starless Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Starless Room - The results are a revelation, and not just for James Johnston. Vast in its scope, visceral, intimate and instinctive – \u003cem\u003e\"I just followed whatever triggered an emotional response in me\"\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Starless Room represents a remarkable distillation of both his lyrical obsessions and prodigious, arguably under-acknowledged talent. Suitably, it’s the title track that encapsulates the romantic sweep of the record best, with its star at his most intense and Sebastian Hoffman’s string arrangements at their most ambitious. For James Johnston, however, the greatest pleasure of all is a simple one: the songs’ slow tempos, \u003cem\u003e“Something I adore, like a lot of the Isaac Hayes or Ray Charles albums that I love. It almost feels like I’m listening to someone else’s record.\"\u003c\/em\u003e But it’s not. It’s James Johnston’s debut solo album, The Starless Room. Like he said, it feels just right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Johnston - As well as playing with Gallon Drunk, James Johnston has spent considerable time working with others: A mid 90s spell as a touring guitarist in The Bad Seeds led to a full role in Nick Cave’s band between 2003 and 2008, and he’s performed regularly with other iconic acts, including Lydia Lunch, Faust, and, currently, PJ Harvey, on whose The Hope Six Demolition Project Johnston appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut if it sounds like he’s softened on this album, he argues powerfully otherwise. \u003cem\u003e“The band’s records have quite an earthy feel, but in a way this is rawer, more focused and direct, musically and emotionally. The last Gallon Drunk record‘s my favourite, and it was certain elements of that which I really wanted to take further, to strip away the dissonance and anger, to reject the more familiar sounds in order to free it all up again. So the instrumentation is very different, led by piano and voice, and the overall sound is lush yet intimate. 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