The Lightning Seeds, the nom-de-pop of producer and songwriter Ian Broudie, will be back with See You in the Stars on October 14 via BMG. It's their first album since 2009's Four Winds and Broaudie says of it, “I always think music’s like attack and defense in football –or like politics – or like life. It’s about balance. And achieving that is the challenge for me.”
See You in the Stars features collaborations with The Specials' Terry Hall and The Coral's James Skelly. The current single is "Emily Smiles," which he co-wrote with Hall, who he's worked with many times over the last three decades. “'Emily Smiles' is about miscommunication and lives being changed by small moments and random events,” says Broudie. ”It’s about desperation and the distances between us being unlocked with the magic inside a smile.”