Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.
But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.
One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.
That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.
I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.
I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that.
There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.
Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.
Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done
The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.
Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.
I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.
But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!
If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.
