With a career now spanning six decades, Hitchcock remains a truly one-of-a-kind artist - surrealist rock ’n’ roller, iconic troubadour, guitarist, poet, painter, performer. It’s a party record, with a few solemn moments, as parties are wont to supply. It’s probably the most consistent album I’ve made. It’s embracing the random and dancing with it, even when it needs to clean its teeth. “What is Shufflemania!? It’s surfing fate, trusting your intuition, and bullfighting with destiny. “I am thrilled to be unleashing my new record album Shufflemania! on the world,” says Hitchcock. Songs like Midnight Tram To Nowhere and the optimistic, album-closing One Day (It’s Being Scheduled) are state-of-the-art Hitchcock, manifesting his signature wit, miraculous gift for melodic craftsmanship, and striking humanity in a world gone mad. Recorded over the pandemic era, Shufflemania! offers up 10 gloriously ingenious new Hitchcock songs in just under 40 minutes - a “proper pop album” as nature intended. The psych-rock influence is a callback to his days with The Soft Boys and his early solo albums. This is the first time Robyn has made a full-band album in the studio since 2008, and the record features a lot of key players, including Gillian Welch, Emma Swift, Pat Sansone ( Wilco, The Autumn Defense), and Grant-Lee Phillips. The new record was recorded in Nashville, Robyn’s new home base in the U.S., and was produced by Robyn and Brendan Benson ( The Raconteurs).
T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Shufflemania! is singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock‘s followup to 2014’s critically acclaimed The Man Upstairs.
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