Happiness In Magazines

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Label: Transgressive Records
Release Date: 11th September

Further reissues from Graham Coxon's 'you'd be mad to overlook' solo career. 'Hapiness In Magazines' remains the 'if you're gonna start with solo Graham Coxon' album and finds him at his spikiest pub rock power pop best.

Recorded with producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, The Cranberries), 
Happiness In Magazines is Graham Coxon's ffth solo album
His most successful solo venture up to that point, Happiness In Magazines went top 
20 in the UK album charts and earned the guitarist the Best Solo Artist prize at the 
2005 NME Awards.
Spearheaded by 'Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery's note- perfect pop and the riotous, 
Skids-like 'Freakin' Out', it plugged him into a lineage of classic power pop, UK punk 
and '60s songwriting. 
"'Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery' and 'Freakin' Out' were two of the frst things I wrote," 
recalls Graham. "I remember thinking, Oh, actually, maybe my songwriting is getting a 
bit better? Maybe I should take this seriously and not be such a control freak? Stephen 
just got it. He loved what I was getting at, the sound of it and the era it was infuenced 
by - things like The Cars and The Jam."
"perfect pop" - The Guardian 4/5
"his most accessible work since Parklife" - Uncut 8/10