Melodies on Hiatus Albert Hammond Jr.

• 1 100-99 (feat. GoldLink) 03:36
• 2 Downtown Fred 04:25
• 3 Old Man 03:33
• 4 Darlin' 03:52
• 5 Thoughtful Distress (feat. Matt Helders & Steve Stevens) 03:40
• 6 Libertude 03:55
• 7 Memo of Hate 03:25
• 8 Home Again 03:43
• 9 I Got You 03:26
• 10 Caught by Night 03:52
• 11 Dead Air 03:15
• 12 One Chance 03:47
• 13 Remember (feat. Rainsford) 00:29
• 14 818 03:56
• 15 Fast Kitten 04:12
• 16 I'd Never Leave 03:17
• 17 Never Stop 03:16
• 18 False Alarm 04:00
• 19 Alright Tomorrow (feat. Rainsford) 03:54
• Total Runtime 01:07:33

Info for Melodies on Hiatus

Das neue Album des Lead- und Rhythmusgitarristen und Songwriters der mit GRAMMY® und BRIT Awards ausgezeichneten Band The Strokes.

Er hat bisher 4 Soloalben veröffentlicht, zuletzt 2018 das hochgelobte "Francis Trouble", aus dem die Radiosingle "Far Away Truths" hervorging. In den 4 Jahren seither haben The Strokes ihr für die US Top 10 der GRAMMY®-Charts nominiertes Rock-Album "The New Abnormal" veröffentlicht und sind ausgiebig durch die Welt getourt.

Albert begann auch mit dem Songwriting für sein fünftes Soloalbum "Melodies on Hiatus", ein Album mit 19 Titeln, das in einem sehr experimentellen Stil geschrieben wurde. Albert tat sich mit seinem Schreibpartner, dem kanadischen Songwriter und Dichter Simon Wilcox (den er während des Prozesses nie kennenlernte), zusammen und führte lange Telefongespräche; Simon machte sich Notizen aus Alberts Bewusstseinsstrom, entwarf die Texte auf ihrer Schreibmaschine und warf sie in seinen Briefkasten! Albert fügte dann die Texte zu den Melodien hinzu, die er bereits ausgearbeitet hatte. Der Prozess des Songwritings wurde zu einer langen, anonymen Liebesaffäre von Ideen und Texten.

Albert Hammond Jr.

Albert Hammond Jr.
Best known as the Strokes’ rhythm (and occasional lead) guitarist, Albert Hammond, Jr.’s solo career took his music in more eclectic, and more personal, directions. The son of singer/songwriter Albert Hammond, whose hits include “It Never Rains in Southern California,” “When I Need You,” and “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” Hammond was born in Los Angeles. He went to the prestigious Swiss boarding school Le Institut le Rosey as a teenager, where he met future Strokes singer Julian Casablancas. When Hammond moved to New York City to attend New York University’s film school in the late ’90s, he reconnected with Casablancas, and the Strokes were born. While Casablancas is the band’s chief songwriter, Hammond co-wrote Room on Fire’s “Automatic Stop” and also wrote songs that appeared on the Strokes’ 2001 tour video, In Transit.

Hammond revamped and renamed these tracks and included them on his solo debut album, Yours to Keep, which featured bassist Josh Lattanzi and drummer Matt Romano as his main support. A host of indie celebrities, including Casablancas, Sean Lennon, Ben Kweller, Fountains of Wayne’s Jody Porter, and the Strokes’ manager, Ryan Gentles, also appeared on the album, which was released on Rough Trade in fall 2006 in the U.K. and early in 2007 on New Line in the U.S. Bassist Marc Philippe Eskenazi joined Hammond’s band for 2008’s sprawling ¿Como Te Llama?, which was released worldwide that summer.

A 2009 stint in rehab and the Strokes’ reunion — which produced two albums, 2011’s Angles and 2013’s Comedown Machine — meant that it took a few years before Hammond returned to his solo career. The 2013 EP AHJ featured some of his most focused singing and songwriting, and was released by Casablancas’ Cult Records label. The following year, Hammond began working on his third solo album. He reunited with Strokes collaborator Gus Oberg as well as his backing band — guitarists Mikey Hart and Hammarsing Kharhmar, bassist Jordan Brooks, and drummer Jeremy Gustin — for Momentary Masters, which arrived in July 2015. The following year, Hammond joined forces with the Strokes once again for the Future Present Past EP. In 2017, he contributed a version of Vera Lynn’s “The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot” that interpolated the chorus of George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” to Amazon’s Indie for the Holidays series. For his fourth album, he reunited with Oberg, taking inspiration from his stillborn twin to create the songs about loss and identity that made up 2018’s Francis Trouble.

This album contains no booklet.