Hugh Cornwell / Monster

Hugh Cornwell will issue a new album Monster in October.

The ten-track long-player features songs written about various people including his 98-year old mother (La Grande Dame), Lou Reed (Mr. Leather), 1970s stunt biker Evel Knievel (Pure Evel) and model-maker and animator Ray Harryhausen (the title track Monster).

Cornwell says these are people “who have defied categorisation,” adding, “I’ve spent my whole life trying to defy categorisation. If someone wants to put me into some sort of a box, I’ll do my best to defy it. You could call it being obstreperous, but it’s also got something to do with being drawn to people who are dichotomous.”

If you are on the fence about a new Cornwell album then a ‘carrot’ comes in the form of a bonus CD (or bonus vinyl LP), called Restoration, which features a collection of re-recorded acoustic versions Stranglers hits including No More Heroes and Always the Sun.

Monster will be released on 5 October via Sony. Cornwell will be touring the UK throughout November.

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1. Pure Evel
2. La Grande Dame
3. The Most Beautiful Girl in Hollywood
4. Mosin’
5. Mr. Leather
6. Bilko
7. Robert
8. Monster
9. Attack of the Major Sevens
10. Duce Coochie Man

CD 2 ‘Restoration’

1. Outside Tokyo
2. Let Me Down Easy
3. Souls
4. Don’t Bring Harry
5. Goodbye Toulouse
6. Ships That Pass In The Night
7. Never Say Goodbye
8. No More Heroes
9. Big in America
10. Always The Sun

Monster 2LP vinyl edition

Side 1

1. Pure Evel
2. La Grande Dame
3. The Most Beautiful Girl In Hollywood
4. Mosin’
5. Mr. Leather

Side 2

1. Bilko
2. Robert
3. Monster
4. Attack of the Major Sevens
5. Duce Coochie Man

Side 3

1. Outside Tokyo
2. Let Me Down Easy
3. Souls
4. Don’t Bring Harry
5. Goodbye Toulouse

Side 4

1. Ships That Pass in the Night
2. Never Say Goodbye
3. No More Heroes
4. Big In America
5. Always the Sun