Keeping Some Dark Secrets

As we tick down the days until June 2, when Johnny Foreigner‘s full-length debut hits stores in the U.K., we have been trying to ignore the leak of the album to the Internerds. But, in the interest of science, of course, we’ve heard a couple of the tracks. None of them have blown us away, but they are solid. We expect we’ll be excited about the whole thing when it arrives, along with the single of “Eyes Wide Terrified,” which we think streets tomorrow. Since we’ve ordered both the record and the single from the U.K., who knows when they will actually arrive, but it can’t possibly take any longer than HMV. So we wait. One bright spot was guitarist and singer Alexei Berrow’s song-by-song rundown of what to expect on the Birmingham, England-based trio’s full-length, Waited Up ‘Til It Was Light, which was published in Drowned In Sound here last week or the week before. It has somewhat taken the mystery out of the songs, but we expect they will stand up just fine without the added mystique.

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