New Jack Peñate album released + video Be The One

When he was last here Jack Peñate was, by his own admission, a kid. A south London bedroom-boy-with-acoustic-guitar. He ducked, he dived, he played the Rhythm Factory, rockin’ the scenesters. And rockin’ the charts: his debut album, 2007’s top ten Matinée, went gold; the single, Torn On The Platform, entered the charts at Number 7. Good stuff, but not great stuff. Not stirring, take-your-head-off stuff. Jack knew this. But the truth didn’t hurt; it liberated him.

So for his second album Jack decided to rip it up and start again. Totally start again. Total honesty, absolute vision, complete control.

The result is Everything Is New , a soul record. Recorded over twelve intense months in producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires)’s own west London home studio, Everything Is New is a giant musical leap forward from this 24 year old Londoner’s acclaimed debut album.

Everything Is New is a technicolour record full of experimentation and possibility. Featuring the blissed-out house grooves of first single Tonight’s Today and swaggering soul of anthemic new single Be The One, the album fuses Peñate’s wide-eyed pop songwriting with the music he’s always loved and lived, successfully bringing Brazilian Tropicala, Krautrock, New Orleans marching bands, Bashment, Afrobeat, lo-fi Hop Hop, Gospel, Reggaeton and Phily Soul into the mix over a nine track record that delights and surprises at every turn.

So here it is. Nine tracks. No filler. An ambitious, timeless, lo-fi soul record. Everything Is New.

Tracklisting:
1. Pull My Heart Away
2. Be The One
3. Everything Is New
4. Tonight's Today
5. So Near
6. Every Glance
7. Give Yourself Away
8. Let's All Die
9. Body Down

And here is the video for Jack Peñate's new single Be The One, out now.



Jack Penate's new album Everything Is New is out now through XL/ Remote Control.