Surprise!
Before coming out with his sophomore album this fall, international hitmaker Mika is releasing a new EP.
This month!
CLICK HERE to check out all the details about the limited edition set – complete with very cool artwork and more.
[Image by Sebastian Micke.]
MIKA
Songs For Sorrow EP
Limited Edition Book Featuring Illustrations by Paul Smith, Alber Elbaz of Lanvin, Sir Peter Blake, and more!
Mika will release a limited edition EP of four new acoustic songs, entitled Songs For Sorrow (Universal Republic Records), via his website, www.mikasounds.com this month. The EP, his first offering of new material since his acclaimed 2007 debut, Life in Cartoon Motion, sees him collaborating with Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett, and was recorded in Los Angeles over the last year. Two songs from Songs For Sorrow are streaming now on Mika’s website.
A limited edition version of the EP will be available on May 25th, featuring a special, beautifully designed hard back book of artwork by some of Mika’s favorite artists, all of whom contributed images based on their interpretations of one of the EP’s four songs. The book features brand new pieces from Peter Blake, Paul Smith, Es Devlin, Jim Woodring, Alber Elbaz (Lanvin), Al Columbia, Sophie Blackall, Jim Medway, David Mackie, Richard Hogg, DaWack, Nilesh Mystry, Kerasacoet, Tao Nyeu, Richard Hogg, Huck Scarry and Walter Van Beirendonck. The limited edition book + EP will be sold exclusively through Paul Smith and Lanvin shops worldwide, and will be available via www.mikasounds.com
In advance of the book’s release, three of the four songs from Songs For Sorrow will be made available to buy from Mikasounds.com on May 14th.
The EP contains the first new songs written after Life in Cartoon Motion’s globe-spanning success, selling over 5 million copies worldwide. Says Mika, “It was good for me to strip everything back down to just the basics. The idea for the book then came from the lyrics to these songs, which are like dark fairy tales, and I thought it would be brilliant to get illustrations to go with them and to get some of my favorite artists to give their own interpretation on the stories.”