{"id":92941,"date":"2023-03-29T15:59:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=92941"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:59:52","slug":"jamie-lenman-crazy-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/jamie-lenman-crazy-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lenman Previews New EP with ‘Crazy Horse’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beloved alt-rock songwriter Jamie Lenman\u00a0<\/strong>is gearing up for the release of a new EP on May 5th. It’s called ‘Iknowyouknowiknow’<\/i> and will be released through\u00a0Big Scary Monsters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To give fans a taster,\u00a0\u00a0Lenman<\/strong> has shared a new track – ‘Crazy Horse’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“this EP is about accepting that your life is finite, that there probably isn’t anything afterwards”<\/em><\/h2>\n

On the track, Lenman explained how\u00a0‘Crazy Horse’<\/em> isn’t your typical Jamie Lenman<\/strong> number. “\u2019Crazy Horse\u2019 is one of those songs that didn’t really sound like me\u2014in fact it sounds a lot more like my buddy Frank Turner\u2014but then this whole project is about songs that don’t really sound like me, so perhaps \u2018Crazy Horse\u2019 is the best example of that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Jamie also commented on a theme that last year’s album, ‘The Atheist’<\/a>,<\/em> and ‘Iknowyouknowiknow’<\/i> ties the two together – mortality.\u00a0“A lot of my songs are about death and how small we all are in the big scheme of things, but I don’t think I’ve ever managed to make that concept sound happier than I have on \u2018Crazy Horse\u2019, and for me, that’s a big achievement,”<\/em> he says.<\/p>\n

“The whole point of ‘The Atheist’ and now this EP is about accepting that your life is finite, that there probably isn’t anything afterwards, and accepting that fact in a positive light. So that’s what \u2018Crazy Horse\u2019 is: they’re gonna keep carving that statue after you’re gone, and it’s going to be beautiful.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch the animated video for ‘Crazy Horse’<\/em> from New York Times illustrator Michael Parkin<\/h2>\n

The single also sees Lenman<\/strong> once again team up with New York Times illustrator Michael Parkin. Having created the artwork for ‘Iknowyouknowiknow’ <\/em>and ‘The Atheist’, Jamie wanted to utilise Parkin’s work and turn it into an animation.<\/p>\n

“I had a whole shoot planned where we were going to go up to a mountain and film with a drone and I was going to sculpt my own version of the statue,\u201d<\/em> explains Lenman, \u201cbut it just kept getting more and more complex, and on the other hand I was secretly bummed out that I hadn’t done any animation work in a while, which I really enjoy. So in a lightning-rod moment, I realised that if I sacked off the film shoot and made an animated video myself, that would solve both problems. I’d had it in the back of my mind ever since I saw Parkin’s lovely illustrations that I’d like to make them all move somehow, but I forgot about it when everything got going, so revisiting that idea was a total joy.”<\/em><\/p>\n