Dexys share Dutch Uncles remix ahead of Record Store Day
DEXYS (fka DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS) ANNOUNCE LIMITED 12″ VINYL RELEASE
“DANCE WITH ME” (DUTCH UNCLES REMIX) AVAILABLE TO STREAM NOW AHEAD OF RECORD STORE DAY TOMORROW
Manchester art-pop band DUTCH UNCLES have remixed “Dance With Me” (the closing track on Dexys’ acclaimed recent album The Feminine Divine), to be released on limited edition 12” vinyl exclusively at independent record shops tomorrow (20th April).
A2) Dance With Me (Dutch Uncles Remix Edit)
B1) Dance With Me (Dexys Album Version)
B2) Dance With Me (Dutch Uncles Remix Instrumental)
The Feminine Divine charted at #6 UK last year, the band’s best chart position in over 4 decades, and highest since the release of the iconic Too-Rye-Ay. The record was met with unanimous critical acclaim, with The Guardianawarding it Album Of The Week and Rough Trade, Record Collector and MOJO putting it in their Albums Of The Year lists
Recorded across the band’s successful 2023 tour, the album showcases Dexys at their uncompromising best, with the first half of the set being a full theatrical performance of The Feminine Divine in 3 acts. The second half of the set (entitled The Concert) takes in a career-spanning retrospective of Dexys over the years, including many fan-favourite songs being played live for the first time in decades.
The Feminine Divine was Dexys’ fifth album of original material produced once again by Pete Schwier, along with acclaimed session musician and producer Toby Chapman. After taking some time out to refocus his energy, Kevin Rowland came back to music with a fresh perspective and new-found positivity. A personal, if not strictly autobiographical, record portraying a man whose views have evolved over time. Not just on women, but the whole concept of masculinity he had been raised with: an education and an un-learning that is traced across the arc of The Feminine Divine with dizzying effect.
The record’s first half is full of music hall-esque swagger, much of it written with original Dexys’ trombonist Big Jim Paterson. The second side of the record is like nothing Dexys have done before. A saucy, synth-heavy cabaret, written in collaboration with Sean Read and Mike Timothy. It’s steamy, fizzing and sultry, at times doom-laden and heavy and at other times raunchy and funky. Quite a heady mix.
Today the band is more of an “organic” assemblage – Kevin, Jim (a non-touring band member), Sean Read and Mike Timothy. “It’s always just natural with me,” says Kevin. “The inspiration comes first, I think about what I can do, what songs I’ve got, then approach the band.” He describes their current lineup as “very much the nucleus, these days.”
With over a billion worldwide streams, three top 10 albums in the UK, two number 1 singles, a Brit Award and a multi-platinum selling album with their sophomore release Too-Rye-Ay (as Dexys Midnight Runners), Dexys are as vital and exciting today as ever. The Feminine Divine and subsequent live album marked a new chapter in a book that just keeps getting better and better.
“I’ve been doing this a long time,” says Kevin. “But I feel I’ve got to it now.”
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