Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg (10th Anniversary Edition) (2012/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg (10th Anniversary Edition) (2012/2022)
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Jake Bugg has announced a special 10th anniversary edition of his self-titled debut album.

The Nottingham musician released his first LP, which featured such songs as ‘Lightning Bolt’, ‘Two Fingers’ and ‘Trouble Town’, on October 15, 2012.

Bugg is now set to celebrate his debut album with the release of a special 10th anniversary edition of the record on October 14.

‘Jake Bugg’ will be re-released on 2xLP black vinyl, limited edition 2xLP, gold vinyl and 3xCD formats, and can be pre-ordered here.

“I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since album one,” Bugg said of the anniversary. “Time has flown so fast so it’s been a real pleasure to go through the old unreleased tracks, videos and photographs and put this box set together. I love the end result and I hope you will too.”

Bugg is pairing the announcement of the record today (August 18) with the release of ‘It’s True’, a previously unreleased track that will feature on the anniversary edition of ‘Jake Bugg’. You can listen to the song below.

As far as debut albums go, this eponymous release is a surprisingly accomplished effort from the Nottingham-born teenager Jake Bugg. Although he stares out from the album cover like a younger, long-lost cousin of the View or the Enemy, while those U.K. indie acts found their nourishment on a diet of the Jam, Oasis, and the Strokes, Bugg found time to explore pre-Beatles music from the likes of Buddy Holly and Richie Valens. These influences — combined with a folk sensibility and moments of delicate acoustic fingerpicking that betray a love for Bob Dylan and Donovan — make for an accessible, pop-focused record that doesn’t attempt to chase innovation. Much of the material here was co-written, produced, and mixed by Snow Patrol and Reindeer Section collaborator Iain Archer. When Bugg and Archer combine on “Taste It” and “Trouble Town” — two of the album’s stronger, more raucous tracks — it’s as if you’re hearing what the La’s would have sounded like if John Power had been their dominant force, as opposed to Lee Mavers. It’s the intro to “Taste It” in particular that apes “Feelin’” — the Liverpudlians’ final single — while “Trouble Town” comes across as a rewrite of their cautionary “Doledrum” with its skiffle-fueled tales of unemployment benefits and missed payments. The comparatively positive and sprightly opener “Lightning Bolt” didn’t do Bugg any harm when it was featured just prior to the BBC’s live coverage of Usain Bolt’s Olympic 100m victory and was heard by a U.K. audience of 20 million people. Built around a three-chord shuffle and a bridge that Noel Gallagher would be proud of, it’s another example of a Bugg/Archer gem. While it’s the analog-sounding upbeat tracks such as these that impress, it’s the mid-paced, digitally polished ballads and resultant formulaic pacing that underwhelm. It’s safe to say that those searching for experimental music should most definitely look elsewhere. “Broken” — co-written with former Longpigs frontman Crispin Hunt — takes Bugg into broad, “X-Factor does indie” territory, while “Country Song” tiptoes between James Blunt’s vocal quirks and John Denver’s suffocating pleasantry. Inoffensive and clean-cut as they are, both tracks signify a mid-album lull and sit awkwardly on a record that is littered with overt drug references and imagery from the street. To his credit, Bugg’s too young by far to be a drug bore, and when he takes “a pill or maybe two” in “Seen It All” or is “high on a hash pipe of good intent” in “Simple as This,” it feels like social documentation rather than a misguided attempt at glamorizing their use. Elsewhere, Clifton — the south Nottingham village that Bugg calls home — gets what is possibly its first mention in song on the irresistible, Hollies-inspired “Two Fingers.” All in all, though Bugg’s debut may not share the wordy precociousness of Conor Oberst’s formative steps or the political astuteness of Willy Mason on Where the Humans Eat, it’s his sheer earnestness and rare gift for writing simple, hook-filled tunes that ultimately charm the listener. – James Wilkinson

Tracklist:

1-01. Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt (Remastered 2022) (02:24)
1-02. Jake Bugg – Two Fingers (Remastered 2022) (03:15)
1-03. Jake Bugg – Taste It (Remastered 2022) (02:24)
1-04. Jake Bugg – Seen It All (Remastered 2022) (02:51)
1-05. Jake Bugg – Simple As This (Remastered 2022) (03:19)
1-06. Jake Bugg – Country Song (Remastered 2022) (01:49)
1-07. Jake Bugg – Broken (Remastered 2022) (04:06)
1-08. Jake Bugg – Trouble Town (Remastered 2022) (02:50)
1-09. Jake Bugg – Ballad Of Mr Jones (Remastered 2022) (02:39)
1-10. Jake Bugg – Slide (Remastered 2022) (03:08)
1-11. Jake Bugg – Someone Told Me (Remastered 2022) (02:36)
1-12. Jake Bugg – Note To Self (Remastered 2022) (02:41)
1-13. Jake Bugg – Someplace (Remastered 2022) (03:31)
1-14. Jake Bugg – Fire (Remastered 2022) (01:45)
2-01. Jake Bugg – It’s True (Remastered 2022) (03:19)
2-02. Jake Bugg – Mr. Minister (02:10)
2-03. Jake Bugg – Kentucky (Jason Hart Version / Remastered 2022) (02:03)
2-04. Jake Bugg – Saffron (Jason Hart Version / Remastered 2022) (02:04)
2-05. Jake Bugg – Love Me The Way You Do (Jason Hart Version / Remastered 2022) (02:32)
2-06. Jake Bugg – Man On The Moon (Remastered 2022) (02:38)
2-07. Jake Bugg – Something Wrong (Remastered 2022) (02:26)
2-08. Jake Bugg – I See Her Crying (Remastered 2022) (02:01)
2-09. Jake Bugg – Friends (Remastered 2022) (02:09)
2-10. Jake Bugg – Devil Song (Remastered 2022) (02:28)
2-11. Jake Bugg – Pretty Colours (Remastered 2022) (01:51)
2-12. Jake Bugg – Green Man (Jason Hart Version / Remastered 2022) (02:12)
2-13. Jake Bugg – Slide (Jason Hart Version / Remastered 2022) (03:16)
2-14. Jake Bugg – War (Remastered 2022) (02:16)
2-15. Jake Bugg – My Deserter (Remastered 2022) (02:53)
2-16. Jake Bugg – The Only One I Ever Knew (Remastered 2022) (02:04)
2-17. Jake Bugg – Swept Away (Remastered 2022) (03:22)
2-18. Jake Bugg – Broken (Remastered 2022 / Rick Rubin Version) (04:10)
3-01. Jake Bugg – There’s A Beast And We All Feed It (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (01:56)
3-02. Jake Bugg – Trouble Town (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (02:50)
3-03. Jake Bugg – Seen It All (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:33)
3-04. Jake Bugg – Me And You (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:22)
3-05. Jake Bugg – Storm Passes Away (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:14)
3-06. Jake Bugg – Worry Walks Beside Me (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (05:44)
3-07. Jake Bugg – Tell Me A Tale (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:45)
3-08. Jake Bugg – Two Fingers (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:37)
3-09. Jake Bugg – Messed Up Kids (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:20)
3-10. Jake Bugg – Kitchen Table (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (04:55)
3-11. Jake Bugg – Slide (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:24)
3-12. Jake Bugg – Simple Pleasures (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (05:25)
3-13. Jake Bugg – Taste It (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (03:42)
3-14. Jake Bugg – All Your Reasons (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (05:19)
3-15. Jake Bugg – Kingpin (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (02:23)
3-16. Jake Bugg – Slumville Sunrise (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (04:45)
3-17. Jake Bugg – Broken (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (05:49)
3-18. Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK / 2014) (05:08)

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