One of the UK’s most esteemed bands, The Charlatans, make their 10th studio album, You Cross My Path, available in its entirety as a FREE download from radio station Xfm’s website www.xfm.co.uk and the Charlatans official site www.thecharlatans.net from Monday 3rd of March 2008.
The band have also just inked a worldwide distribution for the album to be released on CD and vinyl in 33 countries, through Cooking Vinyl, on May 19th.
The album is preceded by a free single download, through XFM and The Charlatans site, entitled Oh! Vanity, on February 25th. The first single from the album, also called You Cross My Path, was made available in October last year and received over 100,000 downloads. Prior to the release The Charlatans undertake a European tour in February to air the new material.
The Charlatans add: “due to the new way people are acquiring music, we decided last summer to give our music away free, something we feel very strongly about and felt couldn’t be ignored.”
“After the free download of the last single, You Cross My Path, we realized that there was still a huge demand for a desired hard copy, something the band also wished-for. We signed with Cooking Vinyl, who we found to be very like-minded, earlier this month and the result of this will be a deluxe edition and strictly limited vinyl 45’s box set of the album which will be available in May.”
You Cross My Path was recorded in Los Angeles, Ireland and the bands own studio, Big Mushroom, in Cheshire and was mixed by Alan Moulder. The album will be unavailable for free download from May 18th.
The full track listing of the ten track album is:
• Oh! Vanity
• Bad Days
• Mis-takes
• The Misbegotten
• A Day For Letting Go
• You Cross My Path
• Missing Beats (Of A Generation)
• My Name Is Despair
• Bird / Reprise
• This Is The End
The Charlatans formed in 1989 and first tasted chart success with their second single The Only One I Know, which hit the Top 10 the following year. They have since gone on to establish themselves as a major force in the British music scene, enjoying nine Top 10 albums (including three number ones) and twenty two Top 40 singles to date including 2006’s Blackened Blue Eyes.
