Different Days The Charlatans

• 1 Hey Sunrise 04:13
• 2 Solutions 04:06
• 3 Different Days 04:00
• 4 Future Tense 00:49
• 5 Plastic Machinery 03:43
• 6 The Forgotten One 00:40
• 7 Not Forgotten 05:35
• 8 There Will Be Chances 04:37
• 9 Over Again 04:00
• 10 The Same House 02:51
• 11 Let's Go Together 04:16
• 12 The Setting Sun 01:37
• 13 Spinning Out 04:35
• Total Runtime 45:02

Info for Different Days

The Charlatans have been active as musicians for almost 30 years. They have been a welcome guest in the charts in their home country of England for almost as long. Their last album, "Modern Nature," even reached the Top 10 again. Perfect prospects for their 13th studio album, "Different Days."

There are also a few other arguments in favor of the new album. First up is the first single, "Plastic Machinery," which was released in April 2017. The song not only impresses with its usual melody-loving Britpop, but also with its top-class guests. In addition to The Charlatans, The Smiths founder Johnny Marr and former The Verve drummer Pete Salisbury can be heard on the album.

The band has also enlisted some other support for "Different Days." None other than Paul Weller sings alongside Tim Burgess on the song "Spinning Out." Stephen Morris of New Order and Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre also contributed to the album.

Last but not least, writer and actress Sharon Horgan joins the cast as backing vocalist, while writer Ian Rankin and Lampchop mastermind Kurt Wagner provided the spoken word in "Future Tense" and "The Forgotten One."

Experienced Britpop icons, exciting guests, and 13 great songs: All the arguments speak for "Different Days," the new album by The Charlatans.

Tim Burgess, vocals
Martin Blunt, bass
Mark Collins, guitar
Tony Rogers, keyboards
Additional musicians:
Paul Weller, piano, percussion, vocals
Gillian Gilbert, keyboards
Stephen Morris, drums, programming
Johnny Marr, guitar
Anton Newcombe, guitar, percussion, keyboards
Peter Salisbury, drums
Ben Gordelier, drums
Donald Johnson, percussion
Derick Johnson, bass
Ian Rankin, spoken word
Kurt Wagner, spoken word
Sharon Horgan, backing vocals
Nik Void, backing vocals
Shuri Endo, voice

The Charlatans
One of the best-loved UK bands of the last four decades, The Charlatans UK's career spans 13 albums, 22 Top 40 UK singles, three Number One UK albums and era-defining anthems like "The Only One I Know," "North Country Boy" and "One to Another" – We Are Love launches a bold new era, one that finds them at peace with their past whilse looking forward to a bright future.

An eight-year gap between albums is the longest ever for one of the UK’s most enduring bands. A combination of covid, solo projects, life’s complexities and the fact that its five members - Tim Burgess (vocals) Martin Blunt (bass), Mark Collins (guitar), Tony Rogers (keyboards) and Pete Salisbury (drums) - live scattered across Europe, meant that it took longer than usual for the stars to align at the right place, right time, right vibe. They took the time to carefully select a recording A-team of production duo Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange and Lightspeed Champion) and Fred Macpherson (Spector, Rachel Chinouriri, Jessica Winter, Taahliah), plus legendary producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries), alongside a list of engineers, mixers and collaborators that reads like a who’s who of alt rock greatness. The result has been well worth the wait.

Recorded at two places that are totemic in The Charlatans UK's history - Rockfield in Wales and their own Big Mushroom space in Middlewich, Cheshire - Burgess cites hauntology and psychogeography as two concepts that swirled in his head as the band dug into the album making. For one thing, their return to storied farm studio Rockfield for the first time in almost 30 years, since they made their fifth album Tellin’ Stories, was an important step. As a band, they hadn’t been there since keyboard player Rob Collins was killed, in the middle of that album’s sessions, in a car crash at the bottom of the track leading to the farm. Throughout the record, you can hear The Charlatans UK's awareness of the stuff that’s made them – the highs and the lows; the desire to honor their own mighty legacy, whilst not being defined by it; a career-long drive to be progressive and innovative.

This album contains no booklet.