Entitled CONTENT, the record sees founding members Jon King and Andy Gill continue to deliver intelligent and liberating music that is both provocative and thrilling.
Return the gift (Live in Belgrade 2008)
The album will be available in three standard formats as well as a limited edition special package. The standard formats are a CD release, gatefold vinyl, as well as a digital format. All versions contain 10 tracks. It will also be available in a limited edition Ultimate Content Can which contains six booklets, the first containing the new album on CD (with an extra bonus track), the second featuring an art piece Jon and Andy have created to depict the last 40 years of world history (composed of a series of twenty drawings and montages), and subsequently a book of lyrics, a book of Rotoscoped photographs of the band’s emotions, a book containing sachets of Jon and Andys’ blood and a scratch and sniff booklet which reflects the key areas of human activity.
“What we’re trying to do is keep it totally stripped down, where everyone in the band makes an equally intense contribution,” says King whilst Gill says: “When Jon and I talked about the album we were making, we looked back at some of the other records we had made and thought about how the visual context we created for the music was integral to each project. Bands usually hand over the artwork, the ‘packaging’, to other people but for us, it’s an intrinsic part of what we’re communicating. The record is called Content, in recognition of the way every creative form has been reduced to just that: content, the obligatory filling for the advertising sandwich. So we decided to make a box with contents, or rather a metal can. It reminded us a little of Manzoni’s canning of his own excrement [Artist's Shit 1961].”
