Taken from the UK artist’s forthcoming full length, BRITPOP, Robbie Williams and his trusted collaborators Karl Brazil and Owen Parker, have formally released the guitar-driven anthem ‘Spies.’
The second single from the superstar singer/songwriter’s new collection, ‘Spies’ follows ‘Rocket,’ featuring Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi.
According to Williams, BRITPOP is the album he always wanted to make after he quit Take That, and he titled the LP after the era when he famously feuded with Oasis’ Liam and Noel Gallagher.
“I set out to create the album that I wanted to write and release after I left Take That in 1995. It was the peak of Britpop and a golden age for British Music. I’ve worked with some of my heroes on this album; it’s raw, there are more guitars and it’s an album that’s even more upbeat and anthemic than usual. There’s some ‘Brit’ in there and there’s certainly some ‘pop’ too – I’m immensely proud of this as a body of work and I’m excited for fans to hear this album. I also can’t wait to perform a song or two from it on my upcoming ‘Britpop’ tour, which I’m opening in the UK, naturally,” stated Williams.
It was during the BRIT Pop days that Noel Gallagher famously branded Robbie the “fat dancer from Take That,” and notwithstanding their trading insults over the years, Williams always loved Oasis and regularly admitted he would have preferred to be making that kind of music instead of the boyband repertoire.
The BRITPOP album’s artwork features the red tracksuit Robbie famously wore to Glastonbury Festival in 1995, where he partied hard with and briefly befriended frontman Liam, around the same time he quit boy band Take That.
BRITPOP tracklisting:
1. Rocket
2. Spies
3. Pretty Face
4. Bite Your Tongue
5. Cocky
6. All My Life
7. Human
8. Morrissey
9. You
10. It’s OK Until The Drugs Stop Working
11. Pocket Rocket
‘Spies’ is available to stream on all major platforms with BRITPOP to be released on October 10.
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Author: Saul Goode
Photo: Sean Reynolds from Liverpool, United Kingdom