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Sam Duckworth is Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., the Southend-born troubadour who surfed the Top Thirty with his home-made 2006 debut album ‘The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’ (an album written and recorded on a self-discovery tour of the UK), hooked in Kate Nash and Billy Bragg to guest on the similarly successful 2008 follow up ‘Searching For The Hows And Whys’ (co-produced with Nitin Sawhney), became a leading figure in the political pop scene (a pub run-in with the BNP prompted Sam to become heavily involved with the Love Music Hate Racism campaign) and was part of the new wave of modern folk heroes that’s brought us Jamie T and Jack Penate.He also spent time at SXSW earlier this year working with Billy Bragg on the ‘Jail Guitar Doors’ project.


Now Sam is ready to release his third album, entitled “Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.” Written and recorded over 2 years at his Hoxton base and Brixton’s Dairy Studios alongside co-producer Dean James, He built tracks around basic acoustic melodies, and added reams of electronic layers that saw the tunes spiral off in ever more elaborate and exotic directions, inspired by a new love for hip-hop and a rediscovered passion for drum’n’bass.

The record that emerged is the point where Sam dons the cape and truly flies. It’s as imaginative, broad of genre and adventurous as the best of MIA, taking in big beat hits (‘Collapsing Cities’, a collaboration with Shy FX), Swedish pop bangers (‘Nightlife’: “I wanted to do a cruise ship crooner song that’s so cheesy that it’s almost unbearable. And then to tip it over the edge, put a really old school hip-hop beat underneath it and a swing to the beat that matches the swing of a crooner”) ‘All Of This Is Yours’ which shuffles marvellously along like Gorillaz’ ‘Clint Eastwood’ and features vocals from.......
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Sam Duckworth is Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., the Southend-born troubadour who surfed the Top Thirty with his home-made 2006 debut album ‘The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’ (an album written and recorded on a self-discovery tour of the UK), hooked in Kate Nash and Billy Bragg to guest on the similarly successful 2008 follow up ‘Searching For The Hows And Whys’ (co-produced with Nitin Sawhney), became a leading figure in the political pop scene (a pub run-in with the BNP prompted Sam to become heavily involved with the Love Music Hate Racism campaign) and was part of the new wave of modern folk heroes that’s brought us Jamie T and Jack Penate.He also spent time at SXSW earlier this year working with Billy Bragg on the ‘Jail Guitar Doors’ project.


Now Sam is ready to release his third album, entitled “Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.” Written and recorded over 2 years at his Hoxton base and Brixton’s Dairy Studios alongside co-producer Dean James, He built tracks around basic acoustic melodies, and added reams of electronic layers that saw the tunes spiral off in ever more elaborate and exotic directions, inspired by a new love for hip-hop and a rediscovered passion for drum’n’bass.

The record that emerged is the point where Sam dons the cape and truly flies. It’s as imaginative, broad of genre and adventurous as the best of MIA, taking in big beat hits (‘Collapsing Cities’, a collaboration with Shy FX), Swedish pop bangers (‘Nightlife’: “I wanted to do a cruise ship crooner song that’s so cheesy that it’s almost unbearable. And then to tip it over the edge, put a really old school hip-hop beat underneath it and a swing to the beat that matches the swing of a crooner”) ‘All Of This Is Yours’ which shuffles marvellously along like Gorillaz’ ‘Clint Eastwood’ and features vocals from.......
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