Pleased To Meet You

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Space" begins as a Radiohead-esque track with an electro intro before shifting into chorus sections in the vein of Simple Minds. Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)" premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 18 May 2001; the band appeared on Later. A year after its release, it occurred to Booth that the song was about his son, whose middle name was Daniel, and his goddaughter Grace. On 6 September, the band announced their departure from Mercury [36] after completing their six-album contract, though they planned to release a compilation and reissue their back catalogue in the future through the label. Booth said the album was the first since their fifth studio album Laid (1993) that they had strayed from the Verse-chorus-verse structure.

Senorita" is about a guy that falls in love with a dangerous woman, and is followed by the disco song "Gaudi".

Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)" was released as a single in late June, followed a week later by Pleased to Meet You on 2 July through Mercury Records. Andrew Paine of NME considered it the "best James record in a long while and there are some near-inspirational moments. English Beefcake" stars a man who ends relationships, while being hesitant in causing pain as a result of them.

House in the Woods studios; producer credit was split between Brian Eno, guitarist/violinist Saul Davies, KK and the band.Most of the finished album was made up from live takes and demos that were made before recording with Eno. Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)" was released as a single on 25 June, [29] after being delayed a week from its original release date. On 31 May, Pleased to Meet You was announced for release in July, and the track listing was revealed. On 19 June, Dotmusic revealed the album's artwork, which is a computer-generated image that merged all of the members' faces. Scratchcard" and "I Thought You Were", outtakes from the album's sessions, were included on the career-spanning box set The Gathering Sound (2012), alongside the music video for "Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)".