XL to release new Gil Scott-Heron album Nothing New on Record Store Day
XL Recordings will release a new album of unheard Gil Scott-Heron recordings, titled Nothing New, on 19 April for Record Store Day.
Announced today to mark what would have been Gil Scott-Heron’s sixty-fifth birthday, the album will (according to the Richard Russell penned sleeve above) feature stripped down version of his “best (but not necessarily best known) songs” that were recorded in 2008 as part of the I’m New Here sessions.
Nothing New completes the trilogy of albums recorded by Scott-Heron between 2005-2009, following as it does I’m New Here, and Jamie xx’s remix album We’re New Here.
Nothing New will receive a limited release of just 3,000 12″ vinyls.
You can hear the first cut from that album “Alien” below.
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