James Ford during Melt! Festival 2013 | |
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Born | Leek, Staffordshire, England |
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Years active | 2000–present |
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James Ford is an English musical composer, record producer and musician, known for being a member of Simian Mobile Disco and The Last Shadow Puppets as well as his production work with the Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Depeche Mode, Haim, Gorillaz, Klaxons, and Jessie Ware.
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Album 2002 6 Songs. Available with an Apple Music subscription. We Are Your Friends Simian Indie Rock 2002. We Are Your Friends (Lee Cabrera' S 'Lower. Jul 29, 2018. We Are Your Friends GENRES All Genres Balearic/Downtempo Bass Breakbeat Disco/Nu-Disco DJ Tools Drum And Bass Dubstep Deep Dubstep Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime EDM Electro Euro Dance/Pop Dance Footwork/Juke. We Are Your Friends is the sound of Simian going pop in a grand way. Gone are the slow-burning psychedelic experiments of Chemistry Is What We Are. In their place are 12 endlessly energetic, sugary, and hook-filled sonic confections.
Ford went to Manchester University, along with other members of Simian.[1].
Ford was a founding member of the group Simian and later a member the spin-off duo Simian Mobile Disco.[1]
He produced the Mercury Prize–winning album, Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future in 2007.[2] He also played drums on the album.[citation needed] Also, in that year he produced the Arctic Monkeys second album. He has done at least part of the production on each of the bands subsequent albums.[2] He played guitar on Arctic Monkeys' 'Only Ones Who Know'.[citation needed]
In 2008, he formed The Last Shadow Puppets with Miles Kane and Alex Turner, as both drummer and producer. Their debut album, The Age of the Understatement, earned the group a Mercury Prize nomination and also charted at No. 1 in the UK.[2] Their second album, Everything You've Come to Expect, was released in 2016. Ford once again produced, also playing drums, percussion and keys. The record earned the group their second UK No. 1.
Ford produced and played keys on Arctic Monkeys' fifth album, AM, released in 2013. His work on the album gained him a further Mercury Prize nomination.[citation needed]
Lilo and stitch hug cartoon image wallpaper for mac. Ford has produced the 14th Depeche Mode album Spirit released on 17 March 2017, as well as the 4th studio album of the UK band Everything Everything under the title A Fever Dream, released on 18 August 2017.
In 2018, Ford co-produced the Arctic Monkeys' 6th studio album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, as well as Gorillaz' 6th studio album The Now Now.
Discography[edit]
Groups[edit]
- Simian, Chemistry is what we are, (2001, drums, production)[1]
- Simian, We Are Your Friends, (2002, drums)[1]
- Simian Mobile Disco, Attack Decay Sustain Release (2007)
- The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age of the Understatement (2008, drums, production)[2]
- Simian Mobile Disco, Temporary Pleasure (2009)
- Simian Mobile Disco, Delicacies (2010)
- Simian Mobile Disco, Unpatterns (2012)
- Simian Mobile Disco, Whorl (2014)
- The Last Shadow Puppets 'Everything You've Come To Expect' (2016, drums, keyboards, percussion, production)
- Simian Mobile Disco, Welcome to Sideways (2016)
- Simian Mobile Disco, Murmurations (2018)
Production[edit]
- Fingathing – And the Big Red Nebula Band (co-producer; 2004)
- Garden – Round & Round (2005)
- Test Icicles – For Screening Purposes Only (2005)
- Absentee – Schmotime (2006)
- Duels – The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned (2006)
- Mystery Jets – Making Dens (2006)
- Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (co-produced with Mike Crossey; 2007)[2]
- The Bumblebeez – Prince Umberto & The Sister of Ill (2007)
- Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future (2007)[2]
- The Lodger – Grown-Ups (2007)
- The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement (2008)
- Florence and the Machine – Lungs (4 tracks; co-produced with Paul Epworth, Charlie Hugall, Stephen Mackey and Eg White; 2009)[2]
- Peaches – I Feel Cream (2009)
- Arctic Monkeys – Humbug (3 tracks; co-produced with Josh Homme; 2009)[2]
- Crocodiles – Sleep Forever (2010)
- Detachments – Detachments (2010)
- Chrome Hoof – Crush Depth (2010)
- Alex Turner – Submarine EP (2011)
- Beth Ditto – Beth Ditto EP (2011)
- Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See (2011)
- Birdy – Birdy (2011)
- Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials (2011)
- Little Boots – Nocturnes (2013)
- Bill Ryder-Jones – A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart (additional production; 2013)
- Arctic Monkeys – AM (11 tracks; co-produced with Ross Orton; 2013)
- Haim – Days Are Gone (2 tracks; co-produced with Ludwig Göransson, Haim and Ariel Rechtshaid; 2013)
- Jessie Ware – Tough Love (2014)
- Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind (2015)
- Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons – Message from the Other Side (2015)
- Foals – What Went Down (2015)
- Florence and the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015)
- Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby County Primary (additional production; 2015)
- The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come To Expect (2016)
- Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness (co-produced with Alex Turner); (2017)
- Depeche Mode – Spirit (2017)
- Little Dragon – Season High (additional production; 2017)
- Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten (co-produced with Jake Webb) (2017)
- Shock Machine – Shock Machine (2017)
- Declan McKenna – What Do You Think About the Car? (2017)
- Everything Everything – A Fever Dream (2017)
- Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (co-produced with Alex Turner; 2018)
- Gorillaz – The Now Now (co-produced with Damon Albarn; 2018)
- Matthew Dear – Bunny (1 track, co-produced with Jas Shaw; 2018)
- Florence and the Machine – Moderation (non-album single, co-produced with Matthew Daniel Siskin; 2019)
- Friendly Fires – Inflorescent (2 tracks, one co-produced with Mark Ralph; 2019)
- Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 (additional production; 2019)
- Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 (additional production; 2019)
- Jessie Ware – Mirage (Don't Stop) (non-album single, co-produced with Benji B and Matt Tavares; 2019)
- Jessie Ware — Spotlight (What’s Your Pleasure? 2020)
References[edit]
- ^ abcdChadbourne, Eugene. 'James Ford'. Allmusic. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ abcdefghDoyle, Tom. 'James Ford: Producing Arctic Monkeys'. Sound On Sound. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
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As we're constantly reminded by a certain TV advert, the world's favourite word is 'OK'.Not bad.All right. The same could be said for much of the world's music.You buy it and it sort of fills a silence and it's OK.
Then along comes a gem like Simian's We Are Your Friends and you realise OK simply isn't good enough. This is what you really wanted - a solid set of songs, engagingly delivered, with a depth and texture that mean you can keep playing and playing it. There's no one stand-out classic on this album. But there are no low points either.It simply storms along in a way that you wish 20 other albums you own would.
The top line is the timeless bit.The vocal on 'The Way I Live', for example, has enough sneer and swagger to give the snottiest indie singer a tough time in a bratfight. The softer deliveries, like 'Sunshine', are in the English psychedelic tradition and you've heard those harmonies a million times before because they just work.
The music, however, is squelchy, springy, loopy 21st century now.Most of the grooves are of the strut-tastic sort that go straight to your shoulders, which is cool because you're an Indie fan and you can't dance. On the other hand, if you want to turn your Converse into Seven League Boots, slap on 'Big Black Gun', crank it up and get stomping. You'll be striding a mile a go before the second chorus.
Simian We Are Your Friends 2002 Rarely
This is not the classic album you find yourself reaching for whenever you're stuck for a listen. No, this is the one that you find in the tray when you open the CD player, think 'great', close it and press play. Every time.
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