Anyone who's gotten really in the weeds with U.K. pop and rock has likely marveled at the work of Chris Difford. The London-born songwriter is best known as one half of the central brain trust of Squeeze, offering reedy countermelodies and biting lyrics alongside his longtime creative partner and co-founder Glenn Tilbrook. Squeeze are set to tour the U.K. and America this fall, with their 15th album, The Knowledge, due in October. But before that, Difford is taking some solo time in the form
Welcome to this week's packed Release Round-Up, featuring hotly-anticipated box sets, an extensive campaign from an iconoclastic artist, and much, much more! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Flowers in the Dirt (Capitol/MPL) DELUXE EDITION (3CD/1DVD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SPECIAL EDITION (2CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) VINYL (2LP) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Paul McCartney reassesses his 1989 album
Arguably one of the finest British songwriting duos since Lennon and McCartney, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have made perfect, powerful pop as leaders of Squeeze since the release of their first material in 1977--all the way up to an out-of-nowhere triumph with 2015's Cradle to the Grave, the band's first album of new material in more than 15 years. Since that initial dissolution of the duo's partnership after 1998's Domino, both Chris and Glenn sought to found their voices as solo
Squeeze songwriter Glenn Tilbrook is going back to the band's first end for his final entry in a series of demo releases. Tilbrook, the man behind the voice, guitar and music of England's most underrated rock band, began a five-part clearing of the vaults almost 10 years ago, when Squeeze, the band he formed with lyricist/vocalist Chris Difford in the 1970s, began their third distinct iteration as a band. As Difford, Tilbrook, bassist John Bentley (with the group from 1980 to 1982) and