.

Ian McCulloch Goes It Alone

Bunnymen frontman to issue solo album in May

By 
February 13, 2003 12:00 AM ET

Echo and the Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch will release Slideling, his third solo effort, on May 6th. The album was recorded with Cenzo Townsend (who produced the Bunnymen's Evergreen) at Doghouse Studios in Henley-on-Thames, England. Coldplay singer/keyboardist Chris Martin and guitarist Johnny Buckland play on two tracks, "Arthur" and "Sliding."

"I'm much more confident now than I was when I last did any solo stuff," McCulloch said. "It's the first record I've made solo-wise where I'm happy with the reasons why I'm doing it and with the way it turned out."

Although Slideling is his first solo recording since Mysterio eleven years ago, McCulloch has been busying himself with the Bunnymen since they reunited in 1997 after a nine-year break. The group -- in a slightly altered form that still includes McCulloch and guitarist Will Seargent -- released Evergreen in 1997, What Are You Going to Do With Your Life? in 1999, Flowers in 2001 and a live album a year later.

According to McCulloch, he plans to continue working with Seargent, and Slideling does not mark a second end for the Bunnymen.

The track listing for Slideling:

Love in Veins
Playgrounds and City Parks
Sliding
Baby Hold On
Arthur
Seasons
Baby's on Another Train
Some Kinda Love
She Sings (All My Life)
Kansas
Stake Your Claim

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

prev
Wilco Movie Comes to DVD
Music Main Next
Gin Blossoms Bloom Again

Picks From Around the Web


blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter

Get the latest RS news in your inbox.

Sign up to receive the Rolling Stone newsletter and special offers from RS and its
marketing partners.

X

We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.

Most Popular

Photos & Videos

Go To Content

Random Notes: Hottest Rock Pictures

Go To Content Play Video

Video: Kanye and Ben Affleck's 'SNL' Teaser Clip

Go To Content

Gallery: 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

Best Ever Lists
100 Greatest Singers

Other Lists

Song Stories

“Let My Love Open the Door”

Pete Townshend | 1980

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."

More Song Stories entries »