Jamie T

"Rabbit Hole" is the latest single from the English singer-songwriter, Jamie T. It's a furious, fast-flowing, hard-edged pop song. It can be found on his third album, Carry On The Grudge released on September 30th via Epitaph Records. This first album in 5 years is full of hip hop, folk and electronica and was produced by Cenzo Townshend (Kaiser Chiefs, U2, Snow Patrol).

"It's called 'Carry On The Grudge' because it's vaguely about growing into your own person. You're brought up with all these things people give you, whether it be an angry streak or casual racism or whatever... all these things that aren't really yours. Having toured from the age of 18 until 24, I didn't go through a lot of the normal things young people go through. I grew up quickly. I had to. So when I had time to take stock... it scared the shit out of me, really."

Jamie T was only 21 when he made his 2007 debut Panic Prevention and followed it with Kings & Queens in 2009. After putting out this album, the punk-inspired singer-songwriter (born Jamie Alexander Treays) went travelling on his own in America on an isolated but essential voyage of self-discovery. Perhaps this is why Carry On The Grudge contains a pensive air of personal sadness and longing. Jamie T's trademark use of torrent rhymes, both sung and rapped are dispatched with a novelist's eye for visual detail and character quirk on Carry On The Grudge. Words fit snugly into melody, there are rattling post-Clash rhythms, with irreverent tips of the hat to Prince Buster, Madness and The Who.

In December, Jamie T plans to head to the U.S. and Canada for a brief tour.

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