''We Move'' is the third studio album by Irish singer-songwriter

James Vincent McMorrow James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish singer and songwriter. Career McMorrow's debut album, ''Early in the Morning'', was released in Ireland in February 2010, and in the United States and Europe in 2011, to widespread acclaim. He made his UK te ...

. Produced in part by

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and

Frank Dukes Adam King Feeney (born September 12, 1983), better known as Ging and by his former stage name Frank Dukes, is a Canadian musician, record producer, and songwriter. A prolific producer, he has worked with artists including Camila Cabello ("Havana ...

, the album marks the musician's transition from

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to minimalistic R&B. It was recorded in

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, and released on 2 September 2016.

Background

James Vincent McMorrow met producer

in 2014 in Toronto, when they were introduced to work together on material for other artists. However, McMorrow kept most of the results of the collaboration to himself. In an interview with the ''

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'', he said about Nineteen85, "He was the catalyst for the album. He was the one constantly texting and emailing me, wanting to know when we were gonna make my record. He saw something in it that I wasn't seeing at the time. He heard something." On the album, McMorrow opens up and sings for the first time about mental health problems he had as a teenager. The song "I Lie Awake Every Night" deals with an eating disorder that left him hospitalised in a mental health unit weighing somewhere between 32 and 35 kilograms. McMorrow said in the interview, "I just wasn't coping well with life. ... I just have a predisposition towards control and wanting to have control of my life. The classic thing with eating disorders is that when life is out of control, it's the one thing that you can control." He also admitted that the mental health problems were something he ran away from pretty aggressively when he was in his twenties. "I'm a classic example of a person who keeps their mouth shut. I just ran away from it going, 'I’m fine, I'm totally grand'. Now I have things to say that I wasn't confident enough to sing or talk about five years ago."

Promotion

The album is promoted by the lead single "Rising Water", which was released on 5 July 2016. A music video for the song, directed by David M. Helman, was released on 8 August 2016. In October and November 2016, McMorrow will also tour Europe and the United States in support of the album.

Track listing

;Notes * signifies a co- producer

Personnel

Credits adapted from

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Musicians *James Byrne – drums *

– CS-80, Juno (track 2) * Kaan Gunesberk – bass, electric guitar, background vocals (track 2) *

– vocals, drums, Fender Jazz bass, Fender Rhodes, electric guitar, keyboards, Moog bass, piano, Polysix, Prophet 5, synthesizer, synthesizer bass, Yamaha keyboards *

– bass, keyboards, piano, synthesizer, synthesizer bass *

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– keyboards, synthesizer, synthesizer bass Additional personnel * Samuel Burgess-Johnson – design *Emma Doyle – cover photo Technical *

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– mastering *John Davis – mastering *Kevin Dietz – engineering *Jimmy Douglas – mixing *Ross Dowling – additional production, engineering, mixing *

– drum programming, production *Phil Hayes – drum engineering, engineering *John O'Mahony – mixing *

– production, additional production *

– drum programming, production *

– drum programming, production

Charts

Release history

References

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