Katie Melua Announces Ninth Studio Album 'Love & Money', Shares Opening Track
Thursday, 12 January 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Mariam Sitchinava
Katie Melua has announced her ninth studio album.
The 10-track 'Love & Money' will arrive on March 24 via BMG, and will be supported with a previously confirmed spring UK and European tour, which includes a show at London's Royal Albert Hall on May 16.
The follow-up to 2020's 'Album No. 8' and 2021's 'Acoustic Album No. 8' was produced by Leo Abrahams, and recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios during the summer of 2022 while Melua was pregnant with her son.
It's previewed by the opening track, Golden Record, which offer a melancholic tone and poignant lyrics that deal in accepting change. Melua said:
"It’s about the scene changing and being a woman in the music industry and how strange and lucky I feel to have a job I’m addicted to. This approach for nearly 20 years led me to being very dogmatic and leaving very little space for my life at home. Before I knew it, the years had flown and I was 36, newly divorced, still pedalling like mad with music, while around me, friends were all married, making babies. And while the draw of making records and getting up on stage still did everything I thought I needed for my soul, I knew not having a stable relationship at home and starting a family was gradually gnawing away at me.
"Writing Golden Record, it was like I was finally making peace with it all, accepting how things have changed in the industry, being happy with my lot at home and ready to face the fear of letting go of the forever funfair of the music industry."
'Love & Money' tracklist:
1. Golden Record
2. Quiet Moves
3. 14 Windows
4. Lie In The Heat
5. Darling Star
6. Reefs
7. First Date
8. Pick Me Up
9. Those Sweet Days
10. Love & Money
Katie Melua Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue May 02 2023 - BEXHILL ON SEA De La Warr Pavilion
Wed May 03 2023 - BOURNEMOUTH Bournemouth Pavilion
Fri May 05 2023 - GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall
Sat May 06 2023 - GATESHEAD Sage Gateshead, Sage One
Mon May 08 2023 - YORK York Barbican
Tue May 09 2023 - CARDIFF St David's Hall
Thu May 11 2023 - BATH Bath Forum
Fri May 12 2023 - NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall
Sun May 14 2023 - LIVERPOOL Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Mon May 15 2023 - BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall
Tue May 16 2023 - LONDON Royal Albert Hall
Thu May 18 2023 - GUILDFORD G Live
Fri May 19 2023 - CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Sat May 20 2023 - MANCHESTER Bridgewater Hall
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