Tom McRae - Étrange Hivertrange Hiver (Strange Winter) is UK songwriter, Tom McRae's 9th studio album. An exquisite collection of original duets with renowned French artists, such as Keren Ann, Chien Noir, Alex Beaupain, Clou and more. McRae decided to collaborate on these 11 new songs with various artists as a way of acknowledging his deep love of French music, and deepen his relationship with mainland Europe, following Britains disastrous decision to leave the EU. Toms

The end result was their thirteen-song debut album

This isn’t dream-pop sunshine bliss

additional recordings featuring demos

the plants

because I never considered myself a song-writer

he is celebrated for his prolific output in the genres of Dub

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A few friends popped in to play along… Stoltz former bandmate

Most of the final track

bar italia’s Matador debut ‘Tracey Denim’ followed a string of word- of-mouth releases on Dean Blunt’s World Music label and received widespread attention from publications including The Guardian (“one of the albums of 2023 so far”)

Fourth World

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