Following the release of taster single 'Here Comes The Weekend', Tim Burgess has announced the release of new album Typical Music this September.

To celebrate the announcement, Burgess has shared a visually striking Kevin Godley-directed video for the album’s compulsive title track.

Commenting on the video Kevin Godley says: “'Typical Music' sounds like an out of control ‘something’ moving at improbable speed, hoping bits don’t fall off before it crashes, and that chaotic propulsion is what this film is about. We shot in a tiny room using 3 hand-held cameras, the most effective being a GoPro with a 360-degree lens that Tim filmed himself with whilst literally bouncing off the walls, his performer’s understanding of its potential giving the film exactly the kind of warp speed jeopardy I was looking for.”

Typical Music is a 22-track double album, a blockbuster set of songs that are as expansive and diverse as they are rich. The radio DJ is known for hosting his 'Listening Parties' of exciting new albums, like LANKUM's The Livelong Day and Fontaines D.C.'s Dogrel.

“OK, we all know about double albums, right?” begins Burgess, a keen as mustard a student of pop and rock history. “Historically, they've been thought of as indulgent. But I came to the conclusion that what I was doing was the opposite of that. I wanted to give people everything that I'd done. And everything that I brought to the studio and worked on with the guys, I coloured them all in equally. Every idea was treated as if it was the best thing and had to be treated with extreme care. I wanted to give everything of myself. That was it.”

He recorded at Rockfield, a storied farmyard recording establishment in Wales that held memories both good and bad for Burgess. The Charlatans recorded some of their greatest moments there (including 1997’s Tellin’ Stories, led by landmark single ‘One To Another’).

However, during the recording of that fifth album, the band’s original keyboard player Rob Collins died in a car accident at the bottom of the lane. Burgess hadn’t properly been back to Rockfield in almost 25 years, but now it was time.

Burgess spent 30 days in the studio with Thighpaulsandra and Daniel O’Sullivan. The former is the authentically legendary keyboard, synthesiser and production wizard who’s played with Coil, Julian Cope and Spiritualized. The latter is the ex-Grumbling Fur multi-instrumentalist who’s released records on Burgess’s O Genesis label and is a member of his live band. Dave Fridmann then sprinkled his magic over the album, mixing all 22 tracks.

“I just wanted more,” smiles this hyperactive polymath. “I wanted to challenge us all. I wanted to do more electronic things. I wanted to expand the sound. We were limited in what we could do because of Covid, but we had orchestras in our brains. But we just did it as the three of us.”

Together Burgess, “Thipes” and O’Sullivan crafted a colourful, kaleidoscopic cosmos, created when the world outside was so black and white and beaten down.

“That was totally the goal,” affirms Tim Burgess. “In my most far-out thoughts, I thought of it as like we built a spaceship that was hermetically sealed, a crew of three. And we just wanted to transcend the mire.”

Typical Music promises to be some trip. Check out the album artwork below.

'Typical Music' album packshot.

Typical Music Tracklist:

1. Here Comes The Weekend
2. Curiosity
3. Time That We Call Time
4. Flamingo
5. Revenge Through Art
6. Kinetic Connection
7. Typical Music
8. Take Me With You
9. After This
10. The Centre Of Me (Is a Symphony Of You)
11. When I See You
12. Magic Rising
13. Tender Hooks
14. L.O.S.T Lost / Will You Take a Look At My Hand Please
15. A Bloody Nose
16. In May
17. Slacker (Than I’ve Ever Been)
18. View From Above
19. A Quarter To Eight
20. Sooner Than Yesterday
21. Sure Enough
22. What’s Meant For You Won’t Pass By You