New Season out today!

Dear friends,

It’s been a long time coming but my new album New Season is officially released today!

Here are some places to buy the album:

• Buy deluxe CD (worldwide shipping, and I’ll include some bonus freebies)
• Buy digital - Bandcamp (cheaper and better quality than Amazon/iTunes, plus you get a free digital booklet!)
• Buy digital - Amazon
• Buy digital - iTunes

And here are some places to listen to the album:

• New Season mini-site (stream the whole album and see more delicious New Season content)
• Bandcamp
• Spotify
• SoundCloud

Thanks for your support and for being nice and stuff, and please re-blog this if you think your friends might enjoy New Season. I would be very grateful and I might even buy you a drink if I see you in the flesh at some point.

From Luke

New Season released in Germany today!

Guten morgen, liebe freunde. My new album ‘New Season’ is officially released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland today! 

You can buy ‘New Season’ from:

• your local record shop
• Amazon, iTunes, etc.
• me

You can listen to the album at lukeleighfield.com/newseason.

You can read some nice reviews at:

• WhiteTapes
• Mainstage
• HurricaneBar
• AllSchools
• Dream Out Loud Magazin
• OhFancy!
• Günter Ramsauer
• Platten Vor Gericht
• AlbumCheck
• CD Bewertungen
• Rote Raupe (this one is not a nice review!)

‘New Season’ is album der woche here:

• FC St. Pauli.fm
• Concert-News.de

Please share the album with your friends, and I hope to come and rock for you in Germany (and Austria and Switzerland) soon!

Tschüssi und DANKE,

Luke

P.S. I’m booking a living room tour of Europe and the UK in April/May. I’m coming to Germany, Austria and Switzerland, so click here to find out more details or book me for a show at your house!

‘New Season’ Vinyl Release Cancelled

I’m sad to say that I’m no longer going to be able to release New Season on vinyl as planned. 

I thought the demand was there to make the release viable but the pre-sales have been less than expected, meaning that going through with the release would be a HUGE gamble in the hope that I’d shift a few more copies on tour in the coming months. I can’t really afford to be a few grand down, so I’m going to have to cancel the release for now. I’ve looked at other options, such as doing radio edits of the songs so that they fit on one LP, but I think that would be rubbish. As would cutting a couple of the songs.

If the album release goes well then I might be able to look again at doing it in the coming months (the artwork and vinyl master of the songs are ready to go, after all). Everyone who has bought the vinyl so far will receive a refund in the next few days, and you’ll be the first to know if the vinyl release is going ahead in the future. Similarly, if you were interested in buying New Season on vinyl and hadn’t placed your order yet, just email me on luke (at) lukeleighfield.com with ‘vinyl’ in the title, and I’ll email you if the release looks likely.

It would be a different matter if I’d written an album of three-minute pop hits that would fit nicely on to one LP. Sadly my album is full of five/six-minute prog-pop opuses that refuse to be confined to one bit of plastic. It turns out that making double LPs is quite expensive. Rubbish.

I am sad about this. I’m sorry if you’re sad too.

Luke