Vancouver,
BC (PRWEB) November 24, 2007 -- Fourteen years into a remarkable
career, New York's finest release 8 Diagrams through Bodog Music, their
first album since 2001 and their first since the premature death of Old
Dirty Bastard in 2004.
Though the release of
their seminal debut Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993 seems like
a lifetime ago, the anticipation surrounding the release of 8 Diagrams
illustrates that the collective talents of Rza, Gza, Method Man,
Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa have
lost none of their potency. In between then and now, the Wu became the
first hip hop group to score a simultaneous No. 1 on both sides of the
Atlantic with 1997's Wu-Tang Forever.
The highlights of 8 Diagrams are many, though much has been made of
"The Heart Gently Weeps," the first single due for release in January.
The song is based on an interpolation of The Beatles' "While My
Guitar Gently Weeps" and features George Harrison's son, Dhani, as well
as Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante and soul singer
Erykah Badu.
Old Dirty Bastard is very much in the band's thoughts. Rza explains
how each surviving Clansman "came on and said some lyrics, sayin'
goodbye to ODB and givin' some last-minute thoughts on him" on "Life
Changes." Dirty appears too on "Chamber Number Nine," an old track
recently rediscovered in the Wu-Tang vaults, which will be on European
versions of the album.
The Wu provided one of the hottest tickets of the summer with their
show at the Hammersmith Apollo in July, which the Guardian called
"wondrous." The band then went on to steal the show at both the Oxygen
and T In The Park festivals, giving fans a tempting glimpse of what
they can expect on the forthcoming 8 Diagrams.
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