Hollie Cook - Shy Girl / Front Line - 7-INCH SINGLE [7 inch Vinyl Disc]

Almost fifteen years since the of her self-titled debut LP on Mr Bongo, reggae's orator of love Hollie Cook is returning to the tag for Shy Girl, her fifth studio album and her most authentic yet. Woven with tight grooves, beautiful vocals and catchy melodies, Shy Girl hears singer and songwriter Hollie Cook revel in her contemporary lovers rock sound, more confident and open to vulnerability than ever before. A sun-drenched exploration of love in all it's guises, Shy Girl tells stories of the magical and the melancholy, the heart-lifting and heart-breaking, across 12 luscious, analogue reggae compositions - the culmination of a soft-hued and instantly recognisable Inchtropical popInch sound that Cook has made her own. Put together across three years and four cities - from LA and NYC, to Vejer de la Frontera in Spain and Cook's hometown London - Shy Girl was written with long-time collaborators, The General Roots Band, and features a contribution from legendary dub MC Horseman, who lends his voice to the album's first single 'Night Night'. The album opens with the title track 'Shy Girl', a buoyant and elastic slice of lovers rock that was written in a moment of spontaneous intuition, and bubbles with a charisma and positivity that Cook radiates. InchI'm not a natural show-off,Inch Cook explains. InchThe Shy Girl theme is me. It's just about being my most vulnerable self and being as true to the music that Iove as possible.Inch It is this honesty which shines throughout, from the chugging deep dub of 'Frontline', complete with raking electric guitar lines, to the bittersweet roots ballad 'We Share Love', which closes out the album.It's clear to see that Cook's songwriting draws on a lifetime of musical influences and inspirations. From her father, S*x Pistols drummer Paul Cook's record collection and touring with post-punk icon Ari Up's The Slits, to her love for str

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Following the of Hollie Cook's fifth studio album, Shy Girl, and her return to Mr Bongo 15 years after her debut, the album's producer Ben McKone reconstructs the recordings into a newly cut dubwise . Crafted on an analogue mixing desk, Ben strips back the productions in vintage dub reggae style. He weaves in delays, echoes, and reverb to push Hollie's trademark sound into a hypnotising, rhythm and bass-heavy, electronic realm.Rich in the tradition of reggae albums from the late '60s onwards, Hollie wanted to reimagine Shy Girl through a dub-focused lens. Evidently, only one person seemed the perfect fit to do so Ben McKone of the General Roots, who was the producer of Shy Girl and featured heavily across the album as a co-writer and instrumentalist. Someone who had sat with Shy Girl for so long and knew the record inside out. Having found a studio that could accommodate his creative process, Ben got to work experimenting with the stems and effects. He brings the rhythms back to the mixing desk, using it like it's own instrument to give the tracks that heavy, spatial, dubwise treatment. Taking influence from past pioneers, everything happening on the album was improvised live, with some mixes taking up to 25 attempts to get right from start to finish. As Ben mentions, InchI love the freedom and human element of dub mixing and find the limitations of some older productions very inspiring tooInch.Paring the songs back, yet dialling up that bass-weight pressure, Ben creates space for chosen elements and instruments to do the talking. Bringing the drums and bass to the fore, he utilises classic echoes, reverb, and effects, as Hollie's vocals drift in and out of the mix. The album opens with 'Shy Dub', a sound system focussed reimagination of the original album's title track, heavy on the tape delay with snippets of Hollie reverberating across the drums and bass. Other