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BRUNO MAJOR
announces new album
COLUMBO
out July 21
VIA HARBOUR ARTISTS & MUSIC / AWAL RECORDINGS
PRE-SAVE COLUMBO ALBUM HERE
Releases title track
‘COLUMBO’
LISTEN TO SINGLE HERE
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“When it comes to love songs that make for Valentine’s playlists and break-up songs that perfectly encapsulate the disparity of losing partners, Bruno Major is one of the go-to artists that can perfectly capture these feelings in their most raw state.” – EARMILK
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U.K. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bruno Major has unveiled his much-anticipated album Columbo is set to be released on July 21st via Harbour Artists & Music / AWAL Recordings.
Today he has shared with fans the album’s title track ‘Columbo’, pairing his ethereal voice with a simple guitar melody, resulting in a track evocative of the classic American songbook.
Listen to the single HERE
Paul Simon’s influence courses through the title track’s intricate guitar pattern and aching vocals as Bruno’s harmonies multiply and swell into a stunning vocal apex. The song conjures feelings of Spring, while the lyrics tell a different story, of love, loss, and freedom.
Columbo is Bruno’s highly anticipated follow up to 2020’s To Let a Good Thing Die. The 12-track body of work weaves the autobiographical with the observational and stretches Bruno’s palette into new forms, yielding the most accomplished and “honest” expression of his music to date.
“Something I’ve managed to do with Columbo more than any other album is find a way of saying exactly what I want to say,” Bruno reveals. “The album investigates my personal relationships with people and other things. It is self-diagnosis on a grand scale.”
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, Bruno was holed up at his parents’ house in Northampton, where he first faced a blank slate, followed quickly by personal crisis. When restrictions lifted, he fled to Los Angeles and hired a vintage ivory white 1978 Mercedes 380SL – he named it Columbo. It was on one fateful day during LA’s golden hour that his car came to its own abrupt end, ploughing into another vehicle. It was there that the melancholic melody for “Columbo,” the album’s wistful title track, emerged, and so the story goes.
The latest single and album title track follows ‘We Were Never Really Friends’ which was released earlier this month to critical acclaim, including Billboard, Ones To Watch and Genius.
The album raises its curtain with the aptly titled ‘The Show Must Go On,’ a piano flourish giving way to a clean, snare-less drum pattern and guitar strum that conjures the cosy, fireside intimacy of Neil Young’s “Out on the Weekend.” Elsewhere, ‘Tell Her’ is a slice of simmering R&B, while the heart-breaking ‘Tears in Rain’ is dedicated to his late grandmother. ‘The End’ rounds off the album, featuring a soaring solo that recalls perennial influence, Queen, and more pertinently, Brian May.
Columbo is Bruno Major’s defining statement to date. A musician who wears his heart (and art) on his sleeve; this is the sound of an artist who risked it all and somehow made it back to shore.
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PRE-SAVE ALBUM HERE
COLUMBO
Track Listing:
The Show Must Go On
Tell Her
Columbo
We Were Never Really Friends
When Can We Be
A Strange Kind Of Beautiful
You Take The High Road
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Tears In Rain (for Granny)
St. Mary’s Terrace
Trajectories
The End
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