Calibre announces he’s ‘Feeling Normal’ with new album

Calibre is set to release his sixteenth studio album ‘Feeling Normal’ via his own Signature Recordings label on February 26.

The 13-track LP is described as his “first bonafide 140 BPM record”, and features collaborations with DRS and Cimone.

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It has also been announced that two dub edits of a DRS-featuring track titled ‘Badman’ made by Mark Ernestus will be released through the German producer’s Hard Wax record store on January 29. Pre-order the 'bad' and 'badder' dub edits here.

Belfast-born and Berlin-based Calibre said: “Getting to work with Mark Ernestus is a real honour, I collected Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound and his other work for many years and still do. It’s hard to avoid the influence of this guy in electronic music across genres and so it is a real pleasure to have him do his thing with the 'Badman' tune which I think sounds closely related.”

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‘Feeling Normal’ has been a few years in the making, including one track written seven years on Ireland’s Valentia Island, and each track has been club-tested on tour, with Calibre saying “ultimately it's been written for the sweaty club experience we miss now”.

He added: “The whole album is special to me, everything on there has import and meaning beyond for me, I have spent much time on all these and hope they are special for other people too.”

Pre-order ‘Feeling Normal’ via Bandcamp. Check out the tracklist and artwork below.

Tracklist:
1 - Barren
2 - Change With Me
3 - Time To Breath (with Cimone)
4 - Has To Happen
5 - Feeling Normal
6 - Badman (with DRS)
7 - Good Times
8 - Say Enough (with DRS)
9 - Miami
10 - Predictable
11 - Man Got Sandwich
12 - Wrong
13 - Regular Bull

Patrick Hinton is Mixmag's Digital Features Editor, follow him on Twitter

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