Standard Edition

Product Description
What a journey it has been since the band's debut album Some Friendly (1990), and the breakthrough hit, 'The Only One I Know' ...

Formed a year earlier by Marlin Blunt, the Charlatans were instantly thrust into the limelight. It was a fresh and exciting time with a groundswell of music from the Manchester scene which gripped the UK and the world for years!

Their eleventh studio album, and first to have a 'proper' North American release in almost a decade, Who We Touch ranks as the Charlatan's boldest to date, radically broadening their aesthetic. Produced by world-renowned bassist and studio wiz, Youth (McCartney, the Verve, more), Who We Touch is a 'soulful voyage', a journey through moods uplifting and profound, dark and delirious, which ultimately concludes in blissful optimism.

The first emphasis track and video from Who We Touch, 'Love Is Ending' is a world class song while the rest of the album speaks of reconciliation ('Oh') with complex time signatures and continues into the ambience of 'You Can Swim' and then into the hidden track 'I Sing The Body Eclectic' featuring vocals by Crass' Penny Rimbauld! So, existentially, culturally, commercially, Who We Touch is a big record for The Charlatans. In places, you may hear echoes, or homages, reflecting music the band collectively hold dear The Stooges, The Byrds, the Madchester sound - but they are still unmistakably themselves, only remodelled, reimagined, re-energized.

Now, after that journey through the past, the onward march continues ...

1. Love Is Ending
2. My Foolish Pride
3. You're Pure Soul
4. Smash The System
5. Intimacy
6. Sincerity
7. Trust In Desire
8. When I Wonder
9. Oh
10. You Can Swim

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Deluxe Edition

Product Description
What a journey it has been since the band's debut album Some Friendly (1990), and the breakthrough hit, 'The Only One I Know' ...

Formed a year earlier by Marlin Blunt, the Charlatans were instantly thrust into the limelight. It was a fresh and exciting time with a groundswell of music from the Manchester scene which gripped the UK and the world for years!

Their eleventh studio album, and first to have a 'proper' North American release in almost a decade, Who We Touch ranks as the Charlatan's boldest to date, radically broadening their aesthetic. Produced by world-renowned bassist and studio wiz, Youth (McCartney, the Verve, more), Who We Touch is a 'soulful voyage', a journey through moods uplifting and profound, dark and delirious, which ultimately concludes in blissful optimism.

The first emphasis track and video from Who We Touch, 'Love Is Ending' is a world class song while the rest of the album speaks of reconciliation ('Oh') with complex time signatures and continues into the ambience of 'You Can Swim' and then into the hidden track 'I Sing The Body Eclectic' featuring vocals by Crass' Penny Rimbauld! So, existentially, culturally, commercially, Who We Touch is a big record for The Charlatans. In places, you may hear echoes, or homages, reflecting music the band collectively hold dear The Stooges, The Byrds, the Madchester sound - but they are still unmistakably themselves, only remodelled, reimagined, re-energized.

Now, after that journey through the past, the onward march continues ...

CD 1
1. Love Is Ending
2. My Foolish Pride
3. You're Pure Soul
4. Smash The System
5. Intimacy
6. Sincerity
7. Trust In Desire
8. When I Wonder
9. Oh
10. You Can Swim

— Bonus Tracks —
11. On The Threshold
12. Sing The Body Electric

CD 2
1. Love Is Ending [Early Version]
2. Intimacy [Early Version]
3. Smash The System [Early Version]
4. These Things [Studio Out-Take]
5. Your Pure Soul [Early Version]
6. Sincerity [Early Instrumental Version]
7. Trust In Desire [Alternate Take]
8. My Foolish Pride [Early Version]
9. Lips That Would Kiss [Early Version]
10. Who We Touch Don't Mind [Early Version]
11. Don't Know Where Or When [Studio Out-Take]
12. Intimacy [Alternate Mix]
13. Throbbing Genesis [Studio Out-Take]

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The Charlatans announce North American tour and new album release date
'Who We Touch' is due out on September 14

July 12, 2010
http://www.nme.com/news/the-charlatans/52009



The Charlatans have announced details of the North American release date of their new album 'Who We Touch'.

Due out on September 14 through The End Records, the group's eleventh studio effort will be released in the UK on September 6.

Produced by Youth, who has worked with the likes of Killing Joke, Primal Scream and Paul McCartney, the 10-track LP will be preceded by the album's first single 'Love Is Ending'.

"We told Youth we wanted the record to have the sound of a European winter," frontman Tim Burgess said in a statement. "With that fresh, crisp sound you get from some British records, but also something fearless that was quite far-reaching, to challenge ourselves – a real journey."

Meanwhile, the band have revealed that they will embark on a 14-date tour of North America in September.

Kicking off in Atlanta, Georgia on September 7, the gig-run will conclude with a show in Los Angeles, California on September 22.

The Charlatans will play the following:

Atlanta, GA The Loft (September 7)
Chapel Hill, NC Cat's Cradle (8)
Washington, DC Black Cat (9)
Boston, MA Royale (10)
Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's (11)
New York, NY Bowery Ballroom (13)
Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg (14)
Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's (15)
Montreal, QC Cabaret (16)
Toronto, ON Lee's Palace (17)
Chicago, IL Double Door (18)
San Francisco, CA Bimbo's (20)
Costa Mesa, CA Detroit Bar (21)
Los Angeles, CA El Rey (22)

The Charlatans: 'We wanted to keep it real on our new record'
Frontman Tim Burgess also hints at Shaun Ryder onstage collaboration

July 15, 2010
http://www.nme.com/news/the-charlatans/52055



The Charlatans' frontman Tim Burgess has told NME the band's new album 'Who We Touch' is a "European autumn-sounding record".

Following their flings with ska and post-punk on 2006's 'Simpatico' and 2008's 'You Cross My Path', the singer said the band were determined to get back to what they know on their 11th studio LP, out on September 6.

"With the last two albums, we made a ska record - and then basically I was on drugs and I was drinking 24/7 so I made it for those people. Then 'You Cross My Path' was a statement of intent when we gave the record away for free, and I wanted it to be a post-punk record," Burgess explained.

"This time, I consciously didn't want us to sound like anyone else, I just wanted it to be a descriptive, quite wordy, emotional album. I wanted to keep it real. Having said that, the first track on the new LP, 'Love Is Ending', follows on directly from the last song on our previous record ('This Is The End') because I wanted it to start off in the same place we left off. I kind of liked that idea, because we've never done that before."

The band purposely decamped to London's Britannia Row and State Of The Ark studios with producer Youth - the aim being to capture a seasonal sound.

"I felt it was important to do it in Britain because I wanted to experience autumn and I wanted it to have crispy beats and frosty emotions. When we did [2001 album] 'Wonderland' in LA we had the same principle, capturing the vibe of where we were," said Burgess.

The band are now due to head out on a UK tour with Shaun Ryder, kicking off at Newcastle O2 Academy on October 7. Burgess hasn't ruled out an onstage collaboration, saying, "I've got no idea if we'll do something together but I'm pretty impulsive so we'll see. I think Shaun touring with us is a great idea though. He's sober now too, so I'm sure he'll be right up for it."

The Charlatans recently celebrated their 20th anniversary of debut 'Some Friendly' with a series of UK gigs. Burgess told NME back in 2004 that he wanted the band to last for at least 20 years.

Speaking now he said: "I did go through a phase of thinking, 'Shit, if you can't last for 20 years then you're no-one really'. I don’t know why I said it really, it was just to keep going. But I can't really see myself doing anything else. I'm excited about what's going to happen next."

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Bump: added release details to the first post. The band have finally been allowed to drop the "UK" from their name for North American releases.