Van Hunt releasing preview of 2008 album in August

While writing the songs for his third full-length, The Popular Machine, Van Hunt avoided all media outlets except Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies and AM talk radio. You’d think the result would be something like “Neal Boortz’s Fair Tax Friska in C Sharp Major.” In reality, Van Hunt fills his album with soulful Prince-like, funk-rock songs that are – I’ll let his MySpace describe it – “as much about the consequences of intimacy and desire as celebrating bedroom action.”

On Aug. 7, Blue Note Records is releasing a digital EP that includes sure-to-be-hottt tracks from Popular, including “turn my TV on” and “the lowest 1 of my desires.” It also includes acoustic takes on the singles of Van Hunt past. The album itself doesn’t hit shelves until Jan. 18, 2008.

Van Hunt probably doesn’t need a Popular Machine – the song “Dust” from his 2004 self-titled debut earned him one o’ them Grammys, and his last album, On the Jungle Floor, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart.

Related links:
VanHunt.com
BlueNote.com
Van Hunt on MySpace

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