Check out the incredible new single from pop legend JAKE SHEARS

Friday 10th February 2023

Jake Shears is back today with the incredible new single ‘Too Much Music’ - the first taste of upcoming album Last Man Dancing, which will be released on his new home of Mute on 2 June 2023. Having already been confirmed for this year’s Mighty Hoopla, Shears will launch Last Man Dancing alongside three intimate UK headline shows, including Village Underground on release day. 

One of modern pop’s true trailblazers, ‘Too Much Music’ is an instant Jake Shears anthem that feels as much a fresh start as it does a return to self. An experimental mix of glam rock overture, disco groove and soulful harmony, it asks why you’d ever stand still in life, when “there can never be too much music for me.”  Directed by Callum Macdiarmid, the stunning ‘Too Much Music’ video sees Shears in suitably subversive form, with cinematic and unexpected results.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/x7OFptjex0Y

‘Too Much Music’ is an exhilarating introduction to Jake Shears’ new album, Last Man Dancing. Recorded between the US, Portugal and London - where he relocated from his New Orleans home during the pandemic - the project features production from the likes of Boys Noize (Kelis, Skrillex), Vaughn Oliver (Latto’s ‘Big Energy’) and includes the sort of head-turning party guestlist that, in Shears’ universe, somehow make total sense: Kylie Minogue, Big Freedia and Amber Martin all feature, with a cameo from Jane Fonda and some timeless words of wisdom from Iggy Pop. Last Man Dancing is full of incandescent nods to fellow dance music pioneers – a Sylvester falsetto here, a Patrick Cowley cowbell there, and a Berghain pulse – all modernised, personalised and right at home in 2023. Hedonistic, poignant, and surreal, Jake Shears has now turned a lifelong love-affair with club culture into his most ambitious material to date.

Posted by Craig Jones