X-clusive: Graham Coxon Completes LP

Graham confirms that his new “sentimental, despondent, whiny, stingy, horrible” record is finally finished. And while the new album may not be in the shops yet, there’s already talk of another “more acoustic” album in the pipeline.

Speaking to Xfm Online, Graham explained that he has all the tracks for the follow-up to ‘Happiness In Magazines’ in the can. All he has to do is select the final cut, and decide what the hell it’s about…

“It’s all done,” the singer and guitarist confirmed. “I finished it in May and then it was another ten weeks of grafting, and 20 songs later it’s all done. I’m just deciding on the running order and I’m doing my drawing, thinking about the visual.

“It’s something to do with love going very fast, policemen chasing it,” he continues, confusingly, before admitting,  “I’m not sure really. I’ll find the proper words soon. I’m going to have to really ‘cause I’m going to have to write it on the sleeve! 

“All of the songs are about love in some sort of way, whether negative of positive. So there’s some sentimentality on there, and some others that are very despondent and whiny and stingy and horrible. I like those extremes.”

Coxon also confirmed he’ll be, once again handling the visual aesthetic side of the album-making process.

“I’ve been doing my normal sketchy thing and mucking about on computers and canvases, yeah. This autumn I want to get more into that sort of thing, shutting myself away in the country and getting on with it.”

Speaking about the sound of the record, Coxon admitted that while he was still writing more acoustic-sounding material, this may be stored up for a folk album.

“It’s not that I haven’t stopped writing that kind of thing, but it’s what to focus on and whether to put very different styles on one record,” he explained. “It’s whether I want to focus it in more an electric way, and save my other obsessions like folk and blues and jazz for another thing LP.

“I’m thinking maybe to put a few things by, and after a while collect them to make a more focused acoustic record. I’ve always been a bit of a fan of folk music and traditional music traditional English music, so who knows.”

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