Since no one's listed the times for the bonus tracks (or the album either), I'll just mention that these remixes of "Fun" are all around 4 and half minutes long. Director Rob Roth created the documentary Vivir en La Habana with recordings and interviews from this travel, which premiered in several festivals and produced the homonimous live EP.

Critics generally commented on the large number of collaborators and composers, lamenting the small number of Harry-Stein-penned tracks, and praised Congleton's production and Harry's interpretation. This album is overall amazing in it's ability to update and at the same time retain all the perfect qualities of New Wave.In summer 2017, Blondie undertook a co-headlining tour of the US with the band Garbage, in which Debbie Harry appeared onstage in full Honey Bee regalia.

Collaborators include of-the-moment gurus like Dev Hynes and Dave Sitek as well as pop workhorses like Sia and Charli XCX; keyboardist Matthew Katz-Bohen, who joined the band in 2008, also co-wrote a pair of tracks, while John Congleton ( St. is Tonight a beautiful song Featuring Laurie Anderson, Pollinator is all about Guests especially on the writing side of things! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Charli XCX—one of the better 21st-century pop artists operating in Harry’s spirited yet serious style—wrote “Gravity,” a spaced-out synthpop romp that allows Harry to vamp and pout. A fledgling beekeeper herself, Harry also wore a full-length cape which declared: "STOP FUCKING THE PLANET" in large block letters.Other songs performed on the tour included " Doom or Destiny", " Tonight" and " Best Day Ever" from Pollinator, " Picture This" and " Fade Away and Radiate" from Parallel Lines, " A Rose by Any Name" and " Euphoria" from Ghosts of Download, " In the Flesh" from Blondie and " The Tide Is High" from Autoamerican. In the United States, the album debuted and peaked at number 63 on the Billboard 200, also the band's highest charting album in their native country since 1999. Blondie’s commitment to tense and jumpy pop remains, even though Harry’s voice is more grounded some four decades after the band’s debut.

OK - I 'caved in' and bought the ltd edition, single-sided "Tonight" single, with "Blondie" etched on the other side. included in the sale is a digital album for on the go, so you don't need to rip to MAC , Yet somehow; I think I will be ripping my original vinyl to MP3 regardless. and giving Blondie their ninth British Top 10 album and the band's highest UK chart peak in 18 years. A note about the inner sleeves of the box set singles, it's just another point towards the high production of these 'singles'.

Fragments", released for streaming only, is a song originally written and performed by Canadian YouTuber and musician Adam Johnston, who releases music under the name An Unkindness, that gained much attention during the Australian tour and was released as a promo track on YouTube. The film is divided into three segments: "Water", "Fire" and "Air", which present a meditation on the experience as well as highlights from the two-night live musical performances with special guests Alain Perez, David Torrens and Afro-Cuban rock band Sintesis at Havana’s Teatro Mella. Pollinator opens with the Harry/Stein rocker “Doom or Destiny,” which chugs along on a simple, brain-Velcro riff and is full of winking wordplay; Congleton gives Harry’s lower-register vocals a metallic sheen that makes the rapid-fire internal rhymes sound playfully robotic. Long Time,” which Harry co-wrote with Hynes, is a downshifted “Heart of Glass” with seen-it-all lyrics; the blooming keyboards buried in the mix provide a counterweight to Harry’s heavily processed vocals. Etwas ruhiger wird es erst mit „When I Gave Up on You“, um danach mit „Love Level“ wieder einen so typischen Blondie-Titel einzuführen, der langsam wieder Fahrt aufnimmt, die in „Too Much“ ihren Gipfel erreicht.