‘In previously talking about albums, I’ve always been, “Oh, well, you know, it’s influenced by Fleetwood Mac or Elton John,” and with this album, I feel like I haven’t really got any of those things to say.’īlunt mops up some onion gravy and grins, he knows the songs are special. ‘I would say it’s the least organic album that I’ve produced,’ Blunt says. There are still acoustic guitars and yearning vocals aplenty only enhanced this time by an intriguing sonic strangeness. The album contains drums and bass that, as Blunt brilliantly puts it, ‘come out of a computer’.
The familiar soft rock stylings have been replaced by subtle shades of electronica and a dark digital pulse. The Afterlove is James Blunt, just not as we know him. But I don’t know how this is going to play out.’ Well, I’m on my fifth album - I couldn’t just do the same thing again. They say, “If you don’t change, you die”. ‘It feels very much like a fresh start for me. He stabs a sausage and chews thoughtfully before continuing. All I know is that I love it, and it might be something that only I love, but I genuinely think this is one of my most exciting albums.’ ‘I just don’t know how this album is going to be received. ‘I’m shitting myself,’ Blunt confesses cheerfully, tucking into his lunch in a cosy West London pub. Prior to the global release of James Blunt’s audacious new album, The Afterlove, on March 24, the artist has a declaration to make.
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