James Yorkston announces his double album
In celebration of James Yorkston’s 25 years on Domino, we are proud to announce the release of La Magnifica, the definitive collection of James' long and storied journey to date. This double album features not only career highlights from his 15 albums on the label, but also 2 additional brand-new tracks, ‘Hard Times of Old Edinburgh’ and ‘The Time Was Short, But I was Happy’, the first of which is available digitally today, prior to the release of the full compilation on 27th November.
Watch the video for ‘Hard Times Of Old Edinburgh’ HERE
Listen to ‘Hard Times Of Old Edinburgh’ HERE
Pre-order La Magnifica HERE
PHOTO CREDIT: JOHAN SUNDELL
La Magnifica is a career-spanning retrospective featuring tracks from James’ earliest days with the Athletes, through his Yorkston/ Thorne/ Khan experiments and finally onto his recent Swedish adventures via collaborations with Nina Persson and Johanna Söderberg. Blending songs from albums ranging from his debut Moving Up Country to the Alexis Taylor produced The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society, La Magnifica is a testament to James' monolithic creative output.
About the album, James recalls: “Whilst compiling this I was basically trying to cover each era of my songwriting. ‘La Magnifica’, the song itself is from the very, very beginning. The lyrics say, ‘What would you say If I offered this all up and moved like a wreck to the Neuk?’ … which is what happened… And most of the songs on this compilation were written after I moved back home to the East Neuk”.
The video for ‘Hard Times Of Old Edinburgh was directed by Lewis Baillie. James writes: “This song was recorded late one evening at the Nina and Johanna sessions. Because neither Nina and Johanna are on it, I didn't consider it for that album, but it's a track I've returned to time and time again since and I'm delighted it's finally being released. It's mostly talking about the carefree optimism of my late teenage years, when I first moved from rural Fife to the bright lights of Edinburgh. "We couldn't sack the singer as he owned all the amps" - indeed.”
La Magnifica will be available on double LP, exclusive Domino Mart double LP (featuring a hand-numbered booklet), Dinked double pink/red vinyl edition featuring a bonus covers CD and standard double CD. You can pre-order the album HERE, or pre-order signed copies directly from James HERE
