The Act: ALBERT GOLD

The Release: �MOOD�

The Format: DIGITAL EP

The Release Date: JULY 10TH 2020

The Digital Link: orcd.co/albertgold_moodep

The Tracklisting:
1. �HOUSE OF CARDS�
2. �GHOST�
3. �MICAH�S WORD�
4. �SECOND BEST�
5. �CRUEL LOVER�
6. �SATELLITE�

The Truth: Judging by his various vivacious releases thus far ALBERT GOLD must surely qualify as the most heartbroken man in Hackney. Over the past few years a stream of subtly supple tunes has proven him to be a brilliantly fresh songwriting talent backed by a yearning vocal range and a litany of crumpled relationships. The �MOOD� EP continues the theme, with five songs of romantic soulpop tumult and one track (�Micah�s Word�) which is a spoken word piece underpinned by some shoegazey guitar. It was lifted from a lockdown conversation with friends which covered, in Albert�s own words, �Being gay, being black, everything!�

�Satellite� is his nonchalantly terrific new single, an exuberant, upbeat blast of sadfaced soulpop joy co-written with Sacha Skarbek and Florian Reutter in the comforting confines of Kensaltown Studios in West London � scene of many a productive Albert Gold session.

��Satellite� is one of my favourites on the �MOOD� EP and probably the best song I�ve written so far in my career. It came from a really personal situation in my life, leaving a really destructive relationship which went on for about three years, on and off. The song gave me such strength to keep going, looking back now. I�m so happy I wrote this with Sacha and Flo, they really brought out everything I had. It�s possibly the highest I�ve ever sung and the most direct I�ve ever been.�

�Satellite� is the third single to be taken from �MOOD� � �I listened a lot to the �Purple Rain� album by Prince when working on it,� Albert reveals teasingly. �MOOD� itself is the final release in a trilogy of extended play ventures following the �Oxygen� and �Second� EPs. The first track was �GHOST�, which was co-written in a box in Stratford with David Gledhill, the man behind the www.facebook.com/soulsweare project, and which appeared in September with some suitably spooked remixes from Electronic State following fearlessly on Halloween.

Albert Gold started this curious new year with a clatteringly luxurious single called �House Of Cards�, and he celebrated the release by bringing out his live band to headline The Social in January 13 as part of the Pandamonium �20 Festival alongside shows by leftfield label mates such as China Bears, Italia 90 and MEMES. Just before�well, you know.

Bolstered by previous live shows for Communion, Tipping Point, BMI / The Fix, London In Stereo, Sofar Sounds and Good Karma, and backed by airplay support from Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens at Radio 1 and BBC Introducing London, Albert Gold has performed at Red Bull Studios in South London and released the �London Calling� single featuring covers of cockney classics by Coldplay, The Clash and Blur. He also featured as vocalist on the jazz-flecked �Trouble� single by Dutch producer Bakermat.

Albert Gold has been thoughtfully self-isolating in a tower block on the Lea Bridge roundabout in downtown Clapton.

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