Four-piece rock band Federal Charm are set to release their highly anticipated third studio album 'Passenger' on Friday, 14th September. 'Passenger' was recorded, produced and mixed at Willow Terrace Studios in Manchester. Federal Charm co-produced the album with John Simm (Hidden Colour Audio) who also sound engineers for fellow Stockport band, Blossoms. "John was really good to work with", says Paul Bowe, one of the founder members and guitarist of Federal Charm. "He's highly technical, has a great set of ears and commands an invaluable ability to locate and add that missing ingredient to make a song stand out from the crowd". For 'Passenger' the new line-up wanted to retain Federal Charm's previous natural sound, but also wanted to create an exciting new sonic platform for the band's new vocalist, Tom Guyer, to really let loose and show the world what he can do. With 'Passenger', Federal Charm spent more time than any other of their previous albums by developing this material and taking the songs into new territory, tone-wise. Previously, the recording process for the first two studio albums was very much like, 'Strat in? Go! Les Paul? Go!'. For 'Passenger', a great deal of care and attention was taken into the pre-production which ultimately benefited the all-round sound. Says Bowe, "It's a heavier album. There was no way to tame beast".
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