There are also echoes of Happy Mondays (Pink Lunettes) and Big Audio Dynamite ( Rambo), and, like those bands, Pond straddles the dance-club and the rock festival stage. Jazz riffs and heartfelt tears are flowing over Lady Gaga and Tony Bennetts new album, Love for Sale. And Toast is of a piece with it, a sparkling slice of yacht-pop that takes pot-shots at the wealth divide in WA. Human Touch is stacked with a Tubeway Army of synths, as Allbrook relates the tale of encountering a woman “talking at the speed of ice as I emptied my organic waste”.Īmerica’s Cup is limber funk-pop that shakes its skinny hips like the little purple guy from Minneapolis, while lyrically elbowing the ribs of a city that changed after it won a trophy in a boat race in 1983.
It’s both defiantly Australian and ambitiously international. The day we released Cheek To Cheek in 2014, itstonybennett called me and asked me. The legendary pair revealed the title, concept, and track list for their second collaborative album, which is said to be Bennett’s last of his career.The album will be a Cole Porter tribute, and is titled Love for Sale. If their ninth album is the sound of something “completely f-ed”, then keep it coming. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are returning to the Great American Songbook one last time. Tony Bennett & Lady Gagas Cheek To Cheek LIVE PBS special has been nominated for an Emmy for. Cheek To Cheek LIVE Nominated for Emmy Jul 16th 2015. LADY GAGA TO BE HONORED AS BILLBOARD’S WOMAN OF THE YEAR. The album is currently being led by single " Anything Goes," with rumored tracks to include " Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Dead)," " Cheek to Cheek" and " It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing.Nick Allbrook, the leader of Fremantle five-piece Pond, recently said that after three albums of “pretty polished psych-pop” the band felt they’d “earned the reward of doing something completely f-ed”. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett released their album Love for Sale, a Cole Porter tribute album on Friday, and in a sweet clip, fans can watch the process of Bennett drawing Gaga for the album's cover. Cheek To Cheek the Grammy Winning 1 album - Out Now.
The deluxe edition features just a close up of Bennett and Gaga, with the album name and the artist name written simply on the bottom.Ĭheck out the album covers for Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's new album Cheek to Cheek below, via Gaga's Instagram:Īfter a series of delays, Bennett and Gaga's album collaborative jazz album Cheek to Cheek will be released on Sept. He is, of course, as classy as ever wearing a simple black suit, white dress shirt and black tie, equipped with a smile on his face.įor the standard edition, Bennett and Gaga are on the front page of a New York newspaper, with the album title and name in classic news fonts. Wearing her recent black curly wig, thick eyebrows and a light forest green spaghetti strap gown, Gaga is all demure while on Bennett's shoulder. In simple messages on her social media sites, Gaga shared the covers for Cheek to Cheek.īoth the standard and deluxe editions feature the same image: Bennett and Gaga standing close together, holding hands and looking like classy, old friends. No, you already know it’s Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.
18), Gaga unveiled the album covers for both the standard and deluxe version of Cheek to Cheek on her Instagram, and it's all about making headlines. Don’t be misled by the awful cover: Cheek to Cheek isn’t an album of duets between Georgia O’Keeffe and Linda Lovelace. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will soon be dancing Cheek to Cheek for their new jazz album, but in the meanwhile, fans can just look at the two musical juggernauts getting cozy in photos. A decade after Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's first shared a microphone aboard his 2011 'Duets II' album, the duo gave their last showing via the CBS concert special, 'One Last Time.