Everything About Annie's "Back Together" Video Makes Me Smile

The not-real chart show countdown at the beginning...can we get a full length version of Deejay Jesu's "This Ol' House," please?

If you've not yet bought The A&R EP (it came out this week), hop to it. This is some straight up '90s realness. Thanks, Annie and Richard X.

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Richard X On Annie's 'The A&R' EP, Pet Shop Boys' "Fugitive", Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls

Longtime Chart Rigger sidekick John Hamilton (aka Moogaboo) interviewed Richard X, the producer behind Annie's just-released The A&R EP, among dozens of other massive pop jams, and you can read their chat over at Idolator.

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Annie's 'The A&R EP': Listen To "Hold On" And "Invisible"

It's sounding like you could do a lot worse than pick up Annie and Richard X's The A&R EP when it's released on August 5. You've already heard "Back Together." Now get a load of the light and breezy "Hold On" below, and hear edgier dance track "Invisible" over at the Guardian's site.

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Annie's 'The A & R EP' Now Has Cover Art

You may recall that last week Annie premiered her pretty rad new single "Back Together" as a preview of her upcoming Richard X-produced release, The A & R EP (out August 5). Now there's some late-'80s/early-'90s-looking cover art to accompany the five tracks.

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Annie Premieres "Back Together" From Richard X-Produced 'The A&R EP'

It's funny how we don't realize the lengths at which we all need new music from Annie and producer Richard X in order to survive in this weary world until we actually get new music from the two of them. Added bonus: Little Boots wrote the tune in question — Annie's bouncy new single "Back Together."

The track is from the upcoming The A&R EP (out August 5), which contains five songs. And one of them is called "Ralph Macchio." The others are "Hold On," "Invisible" and "Mixed Emotions."



It's been a moment since Richard X turned out Will Young's breathtaking Echoes album, so this should be a real treat.

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Saint Etienne "Tonight": There's A Richard X Extended Mix

Above is the official single cover for Saint Etienne's "Tonight", the lead offering from the upcoming Words And Music By Saint Etienne .

The great news: there is a Richard X extended mix! And SE fans will recall that Richard X expertly reinterpreted the band's debut LP Foxbase Alpha three years ago as Foxbase Beta. He also produced their 2009 London Conversations single "Method Of Modern Love" and remixed "This Is Tomorrow" for the same collection.

The :/ news: the Richard X extended mix will only be available on the limited edition (there are only 1,000 copies) 12" vinyl version of the single, which goes on sale here this coming Tuesday.

UPDATE: According to Popservations, the Richard X extended mix will be on both the 12" and the download. 

Some other bits of info on the single, via a Saint Etienne newsletter email:

The shiny new single Tonight is ready to hit the shops on 12", 7" and digital download on 12th March.

The artwork follows in the grand tradition of the Specials' Too Much Too Young EP. In fact, this picture was taken at a Specials gig too. See if you can spot who sang what (hope you're enjoying this game - we are).

On the twelve inch, the first excellent mix comes courtesy of our ursine mates 2 Bears - a real beauty this, you're going to love it - and the second is from Manchester's own remix machine Club Clique. One of these days, we'll have to head up to the north west for one of their legendary do's. If they'll have us. Richard X has done an 'old school' (ie 1980s) extended mix of the song you already know and love.

And, as an added bonus, the 12" features an unreleased track from the soundtrack of our Finisterre movie.

"Manhattan" is exclusive to the seven inch. We gave ourselves the task of taking one of Scott Walker's latterday 'difficult' songs and tried to imagine how it might have sounded with a turn of the seventies Walkersound.

The EP and the 7" are limited to 1,000 copies of each, will be available here from Tuesday (6th March) at 5.00pm (GMT).

And remember kids, once they are gone, they are gone!

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