Sean Lennon readies first album in eight years

By Jonathan Cohen

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Eight years after his solo debut,
Sean Lennon will return September 26 with the Capitol album
“Friendly Fire,” which features contributions from Jon Brion,
session drummer Matt Chamberlain, Cibo Matto’s Yuka Honda, Paul
Simon’s son Harper and actress Bijou Phillips.

Lennon describes “Friendly Fire” as “an experiment to see
what it might be like to do music more publicly again” after
limiting his recent recorded output to collaborations with
artists such as Handsome Boy Modeling School, Money Mark, Ben
Lee and Ryan Adams.

The 10-track “Friendly Fire,” which includes a cover of
Marc Bolan’s “Would I Be the One,” is the follow-up to 1998′s
“Into the Sun.” That album, issued by the Beastie Boys’
now-defunct Grand Royal label, debuted at No. 4 on Billboard’s
Heatseekers chart.

In conjunction with the new album, Lennon and director
Michelle Civetta have created short films for each song. They
feature appearances by Phillips, Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Fisher,
Asia Argento and Jordana Brewster, among others. A trail is
available from Lennon’s Web site
(http://www.capitolrecords.net/seanlennon/).

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