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Even after death! Michael Jackson to drop new album "Xscape'
Epic Records announces that it will release ‘Xscape’, an album featuring eight brand
new, as previously unheard tracks by the late pop king on May 13.
The world will hear the new tunes due to the efforts of Epic Records
chairman and X Factor judge L.A. Reid, who was granted unlimited
access to Jackson’s archives by his estate. In the archives, Reid
uncovered what a press release calls “four decades of material on
which Jackson had completed his vocals.”
Reid selected eight tracks for the album and then sent them out to be
retooled by producers, including recent Beyoncé and Justin
Timberlake hitmaker Timbaland, in a process Reid calls
“contemporizing.” Reid only chose producers who had “the gravitas,
depth and range” to maintain the “essence and integrity” of Jackson’s
work.