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Includes "Saviour" Featuring First Aid Kit!
Staying At Tamara's is the highly anticipated sophomore album from George Ezra - the musician who brought us "Budapest". This collection was written, created and inspired by George's travels, including spells on the Isle of Skye; at a pig farm in Norfolk; in a former cornflour shed in Kent; a converted cow shed in north Wales; and in an Airbnb in Barcelona owned by the Tamara of the album's title. The result is a finger-snapping, brass-blaring, wind-in-the-hair album that shines with positivity and encouragement, alongside moments of more subdued reflection.
The first single from Staying At Tamara's is the uninhibited, feel-good song "Paradise". George explains that "'Paradise' started life as a melody that I couldn't get out of my head Months later I set to writing a song highlighting the undeniable feeling of meeting somebody new and falling for them. We often find ourselves second guessing feelings that we have and trying to work out what it is that they might mean. But with love there is no uncertainty, it is what it is and I liken it to paradise". The new album also includes the previously released track "Don't Matter Now".
Staying At Tamara's comes three years after George's debut album Wanted On Voyage, that featured the worldwide smash "Budapest", a Platinum US single. The Wanted On Voyage album is certified Gold in the US, and 4x Platinum in the UK. Wanted On Voyage generated phenomenal US press coverage including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, LA Times, InStyle, Harpers Bazaar, and Glamour Magazine.
"George Ezra, best known for his lively breakout hit 'Budapest,' is a storyteller more than anything else, though the British singer-songwriter's deep baritone is what gets the most attention. That may change with his sophomore album, 'Staying at Tamara's' (Columbia), which brings together an eclectic mix of '50s simplicity, spiky Afro-pop, and Ed Sheeran-esque pop-folkiness for an interesting collection of travel-inspired tales... Throughout 'Staying at Tamara's,' Ezra establishes himself as a talent as serious as his voice, while keeping the mood light." - Newsday
"Now that it's time for the difficult second album, Ezra continues to make things look easy. His recent single Paradise was breezy and exuberant, the kind of tune Motown might have released 50 years ago... Yet he talks about suffering from anxiety, the condition that, for his age group, is now an epidemic. His new songs, he says, are about 'escapism, anxieties, dreaming and love'. While it can't be easy to live through, this is the sort of mix that music thrives on. And, unlike most of his peers, Ezra is capable of writing alone, which makes the listener feel more included. The opening track, Pretty Shining People, recounts a chat with a friend who says: 'What a terrible time to be alive, if youre prone to over-thinking.' Ezra's cuddly baritone not only makes the line sing, it then bursts into a chorus that will light up live audiences for the rest of the year. He writes words for his contemporaries and music for everyone. On Only A Human he mentions 'flicking through your inbox, hundred miles an hour', but the accompaniment is beautifully timeless a spare piano, slipping sadly down the scale, that could be from Abbey Road. If this album doesn't knock Sheeran out of the top three, there's no hope for us." - Daily Mail
Features:
180g Vinyl with CD insert
Gatefold jacket
Explicit content
Selections:
Side A:
1. Pretty Shining People
2. Don't Matter Now
3. Get Away
4. Shotgun
5. Paradise
6. All My Love
Side B:
1. Sugarcoat
2. Hold My Girl
3. Saviour (feat. First Aid Kit)
4. Only A Human
5. The Beautiful Dream
