One of the UK’s most
esteemed bands, The Charlatans, make their 10th studio album, You Cross My
Path, available in its entirety as a FREE download from radio station Xfm’s
website www.xfm.co.uk and the Charlatans official site www.thecharlatans.net
from Monday 3rd of March 2008.
The band have also just inked a worldwide distribution for the album to be
released on CD and vinyl in 33 countries, through Cooking Vinyl, on May 19th.
The album is preceded by a free single download, through XFM and The Charlatans
site, entitled Oh! Vanity, on February 25th. The first single from the album,
also called You Cross My Path, was made available in October last year and
received over 100,000 downloads. Prior to the release The Charlatans undertake
a European tour in February to air the new material.
The Charlatans add: 'due to the new way people are acquiring music, we decided
last summer to give our music away free, something we feel very strongly about
and felt couldn’t be ignored.'
'After the free download of the last single, You Cross My Path, we realized
that there was still a huge demand for a desired hard copy, something the band
also wished-for. We signed with Cooking Vinyl, who we found to be very
like-minded, earlier this month and the result of this will be a deluxe edition
and strictly limited vinyl 45’s box set of the album which will be available in
May.'
You Cross My Path was recorded in Los Angeles, Ireland and the bands own studio, Big Mushroom,
in Cheshire and
was mixed by Alan Moulder. The album will be unavailable for free download from
May 18th.
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