Nope, that wasn’t a backhanded reference to Saul and Trent. We’re talking about the actual band, the Charlatans, aka the Charlatans UK, who’re offering their 10th album You Cross My Path as a free download over at XFM, as one zip or as individual tracks. Says frontman Tim Burgess, “We always knew this album was gonna be given away for free, even before we started writing so we wanted to make it the best album we’ve ever made. This isn’t a case of left over tracks and b-sides, we wanted to give our fans a quality record.” If this trend continues, illegal download sites are gonna go out of business. You Cross My Path will get also show up as a CD and 45 box set on 5/19 via Cooking Vinyl, for those of you who like to hold your music in your arms. If you want to know what it sounds like before you start downloading, watch videos for the first two singles here and here (we prefer the latter, in case you were wondering).
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see that one bloke showing his arse? him there on the right? that’s what we think.
how many bands put out this much good music over such a long period of time? quality.
‘bad days’ is the best Charlies track since anything off Us & Us Only. the album falls apart near the end, but it’s definitely a return to form after the last decade or so.
why is there an ‘mp3′ tag on this story?
download bird/reprise…that one more than stands the test of time. bad days is good too.
hey to that why? guy
http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2008/download-charlatans-new-album-for-free
read the article completely before asking stupid questions
Huh. Good to see they haven’t changed their haircuts in 15 years.