{"product_id":"colouring-love-to-you-mate","title":"Colouring - Love To You Mate","description":"\u003cp\u003eI've always been on the side of writing up scenarios rather than being really honest about my life,\" says Jack Kenworthy of Colouring about his second album Love To You, Mate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is the first time I've been able to do that. I've not been scared of it because it's not my story. It's a shared one.\" The Nottingham-based songwriter and producer's life was upended in February 2021, months before release of his debut album, Wake, when his brother-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat followed was the most \"unbelievable\" year of togetherness when life seemed set on fracturing the life of a young man. Colouring has been a solo project since Wake, an album influenced by the 00s post-Britpop greats (early Coldplay, Elbow, Keane) but taking electronic and rhythmic cues from Radiohead and James Blake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe EPs Symmetry (2016), Heathen (2017) and Bn (2018) were released via Interscope Records while Colouring was a poppier affair backed by three other musicians. \"When most bands split up, the music stops,\" Kenworthy says. But Colouring had more to give. Thanks to a confidence boost in early 2020 when Kenworthy's longtime collaborator Luca Buccellati (Arlo Parks) laughed off the idea of him folding the project altogether, Kenworthy did what he usually does: write compulsively as a means of nourishment and escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite being called Love To You, Mate the album isn't just about Kenworthy's relationship with his brother-in-law. \"We were this tight-knit, inseparable group of friends for a whole year... a year that was both horrible and great, in a weird way. I really feel we've made this music together.\" In his endearingly humble way, Kenworthy determines: \"I've just taken the photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48352404930865,"sku":"5400863136505","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/products\/4256095-3081452.jpg?v=1708471846","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/colouring-love-to-you-mate","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}