Following the May release of their album Gone Before Morning, MADAM announce the release of a download-only single ‘Someone In Love’ on the 12th of September. In the words of singer/songwriter/producer Sukie Smith, the song concerns “the quietly deadly decision to leave someone after loves unravels…. observing the soon to be ex lover, as they continue in their tyrannical ways….”
MADAM will be celebrating the release of the single with a special early evening free show at the National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square on Friday 16 September, to which all are invited.
Gone Before Morning was originally given a limited download-only release in April 2009 as part of high-end audio company Bowers & Wilkins’ website-based Music Club, which afforded Sukie and band the opportunity to record at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios. The release was available for one month, and in that time gained considerable praise from Club members and press alike.
But Sukie always believed the work deserved wider exposure and has spent the Autumn of 2010 making final embellishments to the album at Reservoir Studios in North London to make Gone Before Morning what it is now.
Gone Before Morning comprises eight original songs, combining elements of trip-hop, Western gothic and Europop with Sukie’s own expressive widescreen vision. It also includes deconstructed takes on Odyssey’s ‘If You’re Looking For A Way Out’ and Al Wilson’s Northern Soul classic, ‘The Snake’.
MADAM’s debut album In Case Of Emergency was released on the Reveal label in February 2008, to universal acclaim. Later that year Sukie provided the score to the British independent film, Hush Your Mouth, featuring her song ‘Ride The Waves’ as the prominent ‘outro’. The film recently won Best Film and Best Director at the Portugal Film Festival. In April 2010 she collaborated with Italian band Hollowblue on the co-write ‘Wild Dogs Run’, appearing with them in the Europe’s first ever 3D music video, which won the award for Best Music Video at Hollywood’s 3D Film Awards 2010.
Since its release, Gone Before Morning has received airplay from John Kennedy (XFM), Steve Lamacq, Nemone (BBC 6Music) and Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2). MADAM have previously played sessions for John Kennedy, George Lamb, Tom Robinson, Guy Garvey (6Music), Joanna Good, Robert Elms (BBC London), Johny Brown, Jonny Mugwump (Resonance), Ruth Barnes (XFM, Resonance and French Radio).
