Imogen Heap unveils plans for Sparks LP

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Imogen Heap has announced her fourth studio album, entitled Sparks and set for a 2014 release.

Already two years in the making, Heap has explained that the project began with the sound of a striking match, incorporated in what became ‘Lifeline’. Escalating into “the most immense, intense creative two and a half years of my life”, it will feature a fittingly ambitious track called the ‘The Listening Chair’, intended to be added to every seven years that the singer is alive. It will represent constant progress and, as the press release rather enthusiastically points out, “only be finished when she’s dead!”

As well as the standard edition, Sparks will be available as a limited edition deluxe package, developed in collaboration with CSV – the creative firm behind Radohead’s The King Of Limbs artwork. Released a week earlier, this will contain thirteen CDs, the LP on ten-inch vinyl, and exclusive meet and greet tickets. Fans paying for the limited LP also get the opportunity to be a part of the front cover, and are invited to send in photos of their footprints.

“The album is in some ways for me grounded with fans’ footprints”, Heap explains, ” bringing the finishing touch for the album art, as so many of them came along for the ride”.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. “You Know Where to Find Me”
2. “Entanglement”
3. “The Listening Chair”
4. “Cycle Song”
5. “Telemiscommunications” (with deadmau5)
6.”Lifeline”
7. “Neglected Space”
8. “Minds Without Fear” (with Vishal-Shekhar)
9. “Me the Machine”
10. “Run-Time”
11. “Climb to Sakteng”
12. “The Beast”
13. “Xizi She Knows”
14. “Propeller Seeds”

Sparks drops 3 March 2014.

[via CMU]