Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pts 1 - 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Johnny Marr started his career with The Smiths, beginning an amazing history as one of the most influential songwriters and guitarists in British independent music. His subsequent creative journey has seen him at the heart of The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse and The Cribs, as well as working with such names as The Pretenders, Talking Heads, The Avalanches, and the musician and composer Hans Zimmer - with whom he recently recorded the score and soundtrack for the forthcoming James Bond film, No Time To Die, including the title track created with Billie Eilish.

In the wake of his time leading The Healers, Marr’s solo career has given rise to three UK Top Ten albums - The Messenger (2013), Playland (2014) and 2018’s Call The Comet, and he will be returning in February with his most expansive work to date, Fever Dreams Pts 1-4. It was created during the long, uncertain period that followed the arrival of the UK’s first lockdown, when his focus was pushed into both his interior life, and evoking the emotional states of others. “It’s an inspired record, and I couldn’t wait to get in and record every day,” he says. “But I had to go inwards.”

The album reflects his multi-faceted past, but takes his music somewhere startlingly new. “There’s a set of influences and a very broad sound that I’ve been developing - really since getting out of The Smiths,” he says. “And I hear it in this record. There are so many strands of music in it. I think it’s the most ambitious solo record I’ve done.”

"Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 is some great reward for the Marr faithful, a hope-fuelled 16-song set mounted on a generous, expansive balance of scope and detail." (Record Collector)

"While tracks like The Whirl, Receiver, Sensory Street and Human are among Marr's most impressive, Fever Dream is too long, uniform and persistent to enjoy in one sitting. Perhaps best, then, to take your time and discover its sparkling delirium in its 4 x 12-inch singles form." (Mojo)

"By the time you reach the angelic post-rock “Rubicon”, you’ve given up looking for any cohesive thread in Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 and given in to its hazy momentum. Like the post-pandemic age, you never know what’s coming next." (The Independent, UK)


TRACKLIST

1. Johnny Marr - Spirit Power and Soul
2. Johnny Marr - Receiver
3. Johnny Marr - All These Days
4. Johnny Marr - Ariel
5. Johnny Marr - Lightning People
6. Johnny Marr - Hideaway Girl
7. Johnny Marr - Sensory Street
8. Johnny Marr - Tenement Time
9. Johnny Marr - The Speed of Love
10. Johnny Marr - Night and Day
11. Johnny Marr - Counter Clock World
12. Johnny Marr - Rubicon
13. Johnny Marr - God's Gift
14. Johnny Marr - Ghoster
15. Johnny Marr - The Whirl
16. Johnny Marr - Human



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