{"id":31947,"date":"2017-12-15T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T22:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=31947"},"modified":"2017-12-16T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T11:58:45","slug":"hugo-valentine-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/12\/hugo-valentine-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Valentine &#8211; &#8216;Trouble&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31949\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/12\/hugo-valentine-trouble\/hugo-trouble-final\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hugo-trouble-FINAL.jpg?fit=1700%2C1700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hugo trouble FINAL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hugo-trouble-FINAL.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31949\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hugo-trouble-FINAL.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>London singer songwriter Hugo Valentine has played the piano since the age of 4 and was trained classically. This early immersion saw him work in many different musical genre, and three years ago started writing in his current style of piano-based pop, with diverse influences ranging from Elton John, David Bowie, Billy Joel, and Queen, to Radiohead, Tom Odell, and Mika, among others.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div>[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hugo&#8217;s thoughtful and emotional pop comes with it plenty of energy and excitement. Hugo&#8217;s is fully involved in his music, not just writing, recording, and peforming, but also producing it all.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Valentine&#8217;s most recent release, &#8216;Trouble&#8217;, is out today. It opens sounding like &#8216;Slave To Love&#8217; (Bryan Ferry), but it&#8217;s not long before Hugo puts his own stamp on the track, giving a sort of 80s vibe, and his vocals retain his London accent, which is very pleasing. This combined with the instrumentation, synths and keys, and strident drumbeat, make this a very enjoyable single.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Trouble&#8217; is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/trouble-single\/1322115349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Music\/iTunes<\/a>. You can find Hugo Valentine online on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/hugovalentineofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hugo_valentine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hugovalentine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundCloud<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/hugovalentineworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>. Stream &#8216;Trouble&#8217; on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/19EtrueDStj3zu4jAjr7Bw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/368265665&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London singer songwriter Hugo Valentine has played the piano since the age of 4 and was trained classically. This early immersion saw him work in many different musical genre, and three years ago started writing in his current style of piano-based pop, with diverse influences ranging from Elton John, David Bowie, Billy Joel, and Queen, to Radiohead, Tom Odell, and Mika, among others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[12183,65,77,370,12184,1181,79,8255],"class_list":["post-31947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-hugo-valentine","tag-london","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-piano-pop","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-single","tag-trouble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-8jh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45991,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/02\/all-hugo-valentine-wants-is-a-little-love-with-new-single-out-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":31947,"position":0},"title":"All Hugo Valentine Wants Is A Little Love With New Single Out Today","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"05\/02\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Hugo Valentine is back with his new single, 'All I Want', released today, February 5. 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