There aren’t any rules–it’s just like let’s have fun and entertain people.” So he pared down his ideas and got on his grind. I think we’re at a stage now where it’s all just pop music.
“People have got busy lives out there, they don’t want to be bothered by every idea you have squeezed into an album. “It’s about not fiddling around, not over-complicating the message,” says Hudson. Hudson set out to make an album that both reflected his diverse musical background (raised on the piano and records by The Police, he can “sort of” play any instrument he picks up) and his then-emotional truth. I’d moved out, I left my girl, I had nothing.
It was a very low point in my life–I’d thrown everything away. When I’d finished recording at like three AM, I’d throw it down on the floor and jump in my sleeping bag. “So I got my landlord to sort out a mattress for me, and I’d put it up against the back wall, it was really good soundproofing. “My room was full of guitars and keyboards, there wasn’t even enough room for a bed,” says Hudson. Written in just two months in the spring of 2009 after a whirlwind of touring the UK, flights between London, Los Angeles, and Hawaii (where he worked with West on 808s and Heartbreaks), Hudson was in a weird headspace upon his return to his tiny flat in North London. G.O.O.D Music / Mercury Records artist Mr Hudson is a multi-talented singer/songwriter from Birmingham, UK with a heart for major hooks, soaring melodies, bright new-wave synths and crushing beats, so his break-up album is a document of misery that sounds like total joy from the gravity-defying anthem “Supernova,” to the dubwise banger “Anyone But Him” to the utterly spare headphone-jam “Instant Messenger.” But most people don’t have Kanye West throwing down the gauntlet to make a classic, stadium-filling pop record. Most people sound-tracking their own break-up wouldn’t make an album as gleamingly epic as Straight No Chaser, the future-thinking pop album from Mr Hudson.
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