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JUNKIE XL TO RELEASE 'TODAY' APRIL 18 ON ULTRA RECORDS
April 18, 2006
With his signature poor boy cap and tie, JUNKIE XL aka Tom Holkenborg is one of electronic music's most celebrated musicians. For the follow-up to his third album, 2004's Radio JXL - A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin, JUNKIE XL will release TODAY April 18 via Ultra Records.
An often gorgeous journey through Holkenborg's musical interests, Today is occasionally shot through with riff-rock immediacy, and more often recalls the melodic beauty of New Order, while sometimes throbbing and pulsing like a house record. It's an album born out of the early winter months of 2005 when Holkenborg relocated from Amsterdam to the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles to concentrate on film, video game and commercial projects.
Radio JXL - A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin was a virtual, dream-like pirate radio station with the voices of Solomon Burke, Peter Tosh, Chuck D, Dave Gahan, Robert Smith and others strewn across clever, beat-laden JUNKIE XL creations. On Today, Holkenborg goes back to basics by reverting to the more guitar-based sound of his first two discs--Saturday Teenage Kick (1997), Big Sounds of the Drags (1999)--and the use of just one singer, newcomer Nathan Mader who also co-wrote the lyrics for "Drift Away," "We Become One," and "Even In This Moment." Long-time friend and collaborator Lucas Banker was also involved in writing the lyrics used on Today.
"My previous albums would go all over the place, from reggae to funk to techno, whatever," Holkenborg says. "The last three albums were big, conceptual albums, with a whole theory behind them. For this album, I went back to basics as I just wanted to make 10 great tracks. This album is more of just one thing-that's what I wanted to do; it's really a vibe that I'm in right now. So that's why it's called Today. It's pretty much where I stand right now in my musical development."
A video for the album's title track and first single "Today" will accompany the promotion of the new album. Directed by first-time video director Glenn Cole (also co-founder and creative director of advertising agency 72andSunny), the video features Tom Holkenborg as a barber who creates outrageous haircuts for anyone who visits his barbershop. Like the sign in the window says "Get Junkified." Cole and Junkie XL first collaborated on a Nike World Cup commercial in 2002, which resulted in the JXL remix of Elvis' "A Little Less Conversation."
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