Revel In The Drama Ren Harvieu SKU: 19.00 19.00 £19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bella Union Released Date: 3rd April 2020 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code180g 1LP Includes Download CodeClear Revel In The Drama quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Ren Harvieu announces her long-awaited new album ‘Revel In The Drama’, via Bella Union. The album is a brilliant, bolder and broader take on her timeless pop classicism, a compelling diary of a struggle with selfbelief and a celebration of liberation and survival, seven years after her Top 5 debut album and having overcome a life-threatening injury. Think of ‘Revel In The Drama’ as Harvieu’s second debut album; a new beginning. Harvieu’s defiance against the odds and her willingness to lay herself open to make what she believed was within her is baked into every groove of the record, across every stylistic turn: the giddy pop of ‘Strange Thing’, the gothic swoon of ‘Cruel Disguise’, the smoky seductiveness of ‘Yes Please’ through to the stirring torchsong finale ‘My Body She Is Alive’. Harvieu has come a long way from the 17-year-old who was signed to Island Records and who had no intention of becoming a singer-songwriter. Even when she made her debut album ‘Through The Night’, her confidence was low. “I did help write a few of the songs on that record, which I’m still very fond of, but I felt more of a mouthpiece for someone else’s talent, which eats away at you especially because I had so much to say lyrically I just hadn’t learnt how to as yet.” Her injury – a broken spine following “a freak accident” between recording and releasing her debut album – undermined Harvieu even further. Likewise, Island parted ways with her six months after its release, despite a Top 5 chart entry, making the BBC’s Sound Of 2012, a 5-star live review from The Guardian and TV exposure. What followed was what Harvieu describes as “some very dark years” which she addresses in songs like ‘Spirit Me Away’ and the 50’s ballad-evoking ‘You Don’t Know Me’. A split with her long-term partner, her manager and then her beloved Salford. “In one fell swoop everything was gone. I knew I had to get away, start again, rebuild myself.” It wasn’t until 2015 to be exact, when she met Romeo Stodart, the Magic Numbers frontman and songwriter who had emailed after seeing her perform on Later… With Jools Holland, to ask if she’d consider writing together. “When we started, the energy was immediately different to anyone I’d worked with before, there was this insane instant musical connection” she says. “I loved that Romeo really embraced who I was and encouraged it, I was starting to realise that I didn’t have to be anything other than myself.” The pair spent the next two years co-writing: “I wasn’t in a massive hurry, because at last I was having fun” Harvieu says. “We’d stay up all night drinking, dancing and playing music, I felt like I was re-discovering a girl who had been hidden, quietened. I’d tell Romeo, I don’t just want to paint pretty pictures I want to revel in the drama of my life, the good and the bad, before I was afraid to say something in my lyrics, but no longer. I felt free.” The album was co-produced by Romeo Stodart and Dave Izumi Lynch, owner of Echo Zoo studio in Eastbourne where recording took place. “It was a truly magical experience working with Dave & Romeo, they are two absolute nurturing musical wizards.” says Harvieu. Harvieu’s lyrical confidence is evident throughout the album and has you leaning in to absorb line after line. Her voice, soaring and caressing in equal measure, is matched in force by her flirtatious personality. From the album’s opening lyric “Let me put my paws on you, strange thing” through to the feminine bite of ‘Curves And Swerves’ – “I’ve got some curves and some swerves, what you gonna do about it?” which crackles with sexual tension and an aching vulnerability. Among Harvieu’s new songs are messages of hope to her younger, anxious self. To the teenage goth Ren in ‘Little Raven’, she says: “I want you to know, that I’m starting to feel, but its gonna take time, but I’m ready to heal.” ‘Tomorrow Girl Today’ is to the Ren “who would make bad decisions… we can all be very selfdestructive, but will we make it this time?” LP pressed on 180g vinyl with digital download code. Available to independent retailers on 180g clear vinyl with digital download code. Artist Ren Harvieu Genre Rock And Pop Label Bella Union Buying Options 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code , 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Strange Thing Teenage Mascara This Is How You Make Me Feel Curves And Swerves Cruel Disguise Yes Please Spirit Me Away This Is Our Love You Don’t Need Me Tomorrow’s Girl Today Little Raven My Body She Is Alive Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop Nearly New View Product Quick View Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies Rock And Pop | Warner Bros | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th May 2023 £40.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies £40.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Bros SKU: nn263508 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th May 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Joseph Arthur Come Back World Rock And Pop | Import Exclusive | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd November 2019 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joseph Arthur Come Back World £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Import Exclusive SKU: 616948914219PMI Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd November 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kiss Psycho Circus (with 3D Lenticular Cover) Rock And Pop | Back To Black | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th May 2014 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kiss Psycho Circus (with 3D Lenticular Cover) £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Back To Black SKU: 3771552 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elvis Presley Golden Records Vol 3 Rock And Pop | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 1st December 2006 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elvis Presley Golden Records Vol 3 £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Speakers Corner SKU: LSP2765 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st December 2006 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nitzer Ebb Body Of Work Rock And Pop | Mute | 4LP Released 1st March 2019 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nitzer Ebb Body Of Work £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mute SKU: MUTEL9 Formats: 4LP Released Date: 1st March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly Rock And Pop | Plain Recordings | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd July 2020 £42.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly £42.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Plain Recordings SKU: PLAIN117LPC Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rolling Stones, The On Tour ’65 Germany and More Rock And Pop | 1960's Records | 1LP Released 10th December 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rolling Stones, The On Tour ’65 Germany and More £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 1960's Records SKU: RANDB79LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th December 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (SACD) Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | SACD Release Date TBC £46.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Joni Mitchell The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (SACD) £46.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: CMFSA2265 Formats: SACD Released Date: Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rayland Baxter If I Were A Butterfly Rock And Pop | ATO | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th November 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rayland Baxter If I Were A Butterfly £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: ATO SKU: ATO0619LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Duke Spirit, The Sky is Mine Rock And Pop | Ex Voto Records | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 11th August 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Duke Spirit, The Sky is Mine £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Ex Voto Records SKU: EXVOTOLP2 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 11th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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