The final track listing for Blondie 4(0) Ever was revealed in late March 2014 on Pandora. The first song released from Blondie 4(0) Ever was the re-recorded version on " Sunday Girl", which appeared on the soundtrack album to the 2013 film CBGB. It was announced in the February 2014 issue of Vanity Fair magazine, for which Harry was photographed by Annie Leibovitz, that Ghosts of Download would be released as part of a two-disc package titled Blondie 4(0) Ever-coinciding with the band's 40th anniversary-which would also include an album of the band's greatest hits. However, the release was ultimately delayed to May 13, 2014. The January 2014 issue of British magazine Mojo confirmed the album's release date as March 17, 2014, to be supplemented with Blondie's 40th Anniversary World Wide Tour. On December 31, 2013, Harry stated in an interview on CNN's New Year's Eve Live that the album would be released in March 2014. It was originally scheduled to be released in November 2013, but the release was pushed back to January 2014 in order to avoid the rush of albums released for the Christmas period. The album's release was postponed several times. An early version of the track listing was unveiled on June 28 through Pandora, along with previews of the tracks. According to Stein, the title refers to "all spirits in the background of electricity and data". The title of Blondie's tenth studio album was confirmed to be Ghosts of Download on June 18, 2013. Harry agreed: "Most recently, there were a couple of lines in a song that he came up with, and then there were two more lines that had to be written, and I had already written them. I don't have to ask her much because she will always have the same conclusions", Stein said. "Oh, with Debbie, we just have a lot of unsaid communication, a lot of non-verbal stuff goes on. Every piece has its own mood, its own arc and a lot of times the lyrics sort of suggest themselves." Harry also commented, "It's always the music the music is the primary inspiration. There was a lot of collaboration with this record, more so than previous records, except perhaps for Autoamerican which had a lot of outside players on it, even an orchestra." And he had this assistant, Natalie Hawkins, who helped with the melodies too. He helped develop melodies with me, and that was really gratifying. I spent a lot of time doing this at home, and then sending things back and forth with our producer Jeff Saltzman. A lot of the programmed parts remained on the record, more so than the previous records. This one is more computer-based than the last record, which was more band-based. "It's been like two years that I have been working on this. "This project was ongoing since we finished Panic of Girls", Stein commented. So it was kind of in the ghostly era of electronics." Chris and Matt did all of their work on computer, then we would send files to people and they would play to it, or sing to it, or write to it, or whatever. We did this in a very economical way, actually. "I don't think it sounds entirely like a dance record. "We have live performances on there that bring out the style of Blondie", Debbie Harry told Classic Rock. Stein stated in August that an EDM collaboration with Hector Fonseca would be included on the album. On June 18, the group announced through Facebook that they were still recording but almost finished, while revealing that their next album would be titled Ghosts of Download. Guitarist and co-founder Chris Stein announced that the album would feature collaborations with girl group Stush, hip hop group Los Rakas, and Colombian electronica artist Systema Solar. The album was recorded at Mercy Sound Studios in New York City and at Skyline Studios in Oakland, California. In early March 2013, the band announced via Facebook and Twitter that they were putting finishing touches to new music, and it would be released later that year. The latter spawned three singles: " A Rose by Any Name", " Sugar on the Side", and " I Want to Drag You Around".īlondie began working on their tenth studio album shortly after the release of Panic of Girls (2011). The two-disc package consists of Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux, a collection of re-recordings of Blondie's past singles, and the band's tenth studio album, Ghosts of Download. It was released on May 12, 2014, by Noble ID in celebration of the band's 40th anniversary. Blondie 4(0) Ever is a double album by American rock band Blondie.
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