Seal is teaming up once again with legendary producer Trevor Horn to work on a new album titled 7, set for release on November 6th.
The album represents the duos first collection of original material since 2003, having previously created such defining hits as ‘Kiss From A Rose’, ‘Killer’ and ‘Crazy’. Throughout 7, Seal explores love and all of its implications, idiosyncrasies, and intricacies. The two began their partnership in 1991 with the singer’s number 1 debut album Seal, continued with the hugely successful follow-up Seal II (1994), 1998’s Human Being, 2003’s Seal IV, and most recently Soul 2 (2011).
‘We barely spoke about music in the studio,’ Seal admits. ‘We talked more about life and our relationship over the years. He just understands how to place my voice. On the one hand, you have this elaborate production and signature of Trevor Horn, but you never lose sight of what it is I’m saying. That’s the narrative. There’s no producer who understands how to sustain and keep focused on the narrative of my voice and what I’m trying to say better than Trevor does. He pushes me, and we left it all on the court. He taught me a work ethic and approach to making records that will stay with me until the day I die.’
Commenting on his latest work Seal stated, ‘The album concerns the most sung about, most talked about, and most documented emotion, love,’ he explains. ‘I tried to capture all of the wonderfully different dynamics of love, whether it’s the anger, the acceptance, the bliss, the sadness, the elation, or the recklessness. It’s this emotion and the ways it makes us feel. It’s about the extreme joy and the extreme regret as well as all of the crazy things love makes us do.’
The album’s first single, ‘Do You Ever’ was premiered by Ken Bruce at Radio 2.
