Cocknbullkid Abandons Hype Tracks on Debut Album

Posted on Mar 17th 2010 12:30PM by Seb Underhill
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What's happened to Cocknbullkid? It's been six quiet months since Anita Blay signed a major record deal off the back of two single releases and a body of demo tracks which pointed to sheer pop brilliance. The London based singer-songwriter has exclusively told Spinner about her forthcoming debut album 'Adulthood' and her bold decision to drop all the hype tracks that preceded it.

"By the time 'I'm Not Sorry' was released I was already in a transitional period," she says. "As an artist, you've got to keep on moving otherwise I'll get bored and you'll get bored. None of the old tracks will be on the new record."

Blay has always attracted a seemingly impossible range of critical comparison, from Kelis and Sugababes to Morrissey, but has going back to a blank canvas cemented her sound?

"Yes I think it has actually. That's why the album has taken the time that it has. I decided it needed a sound, these songs have been written over a five-year span, so obviously there will be differences in style between each of the songs, but It was important to make the album as cohesive and conceptual as possible so I decided to get one producer to do it. It's important that the production pulls it all together."

So who's producing the record? "Well, I've written with loads of amazing people like Peter, Bjorn and John, Gonzales and Guy Sigsworth -- which you'll be able to hear on the album -- but we decided on Liam Howe (formerly of Sneaker Pimps) to produce the record. It took a while to find but I felt he understood the sound and vision I had for the album so it made sense."

She tells Spinner she is already planning live shows for later in the year. "I will be playing a one off gig for the Koko fundraiser on March 24. But officially I think we will be putting a tour together around May time. I'm excited to get back! It will officially be a year since my last London gig. I hope I'm not too rusty."

The album 'Adulthood' will be released in late summer 2010, with the first single 'Hold On To Your Misery' released in May.