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Following the critical success of 2007’s A Brighter Beat and his Christmas single, Malcolm Middleton is back to business with his new album Sleight of Heart, released on 3 March through Full Time Hobby. It includes Malcolm’s version of Madonna’s ‘Stay’, alongside 2 other covers and 6 original new songs.
Sleight of Heart bookends what Middleton describes as his “boo-hoo/way-hey! period”, using up all the leftovers and tying up the loose ends. Largely an acoustic LP, it was recorded at Chemikal Underground Studios in Glasgow. “I suppose this album is a reaction to the production of A Brighter Beat, which I love, but I felt it was time for something quieter”, says Middleton. “My songs are usually written on a guitar so this way they are closer to the original form.”
The covers on the album are fairly unpredictable. Here, a tortured version of Madonna’s ‘Stay’ rubs shoulders with a lively take on King Creosote’s ‘Marguerita Red’ and Jackson C. Frank’s ‘Just Like Anything’. ‘Stay’ is an old favourite of Middleton’s, while ‘Just Like Anything’ is beloved by his girlfriend “so I thought I’d ruin it for her,” he says.
“Right now, everything sounds like a fat child throwing a Casio keyboard down a flight of stairs and hitting an old man at the bottom who's playing Verve songs badly on an over-priced guitar,” says Malcolm.
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