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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><img width="229" height="161" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CC882E.1E7B9330" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01CC882C.D77724F0"></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Idle Warship Partners with
<span class="spelle">Spotify</span> to Premiere New Album <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Habits of The Heart
</span></em>Today</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Marks the first time
<span class="spelle">Spotify</span> U.S. has debuted an album weeks ahead of release date</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:black">Album out November 1<sup>st</sup> via Blacksmith/Element 9/Fontana</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Idle Warship </span></b><span style="color:black">has announced that the award-winning, on-demand digital music service
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Spotify</span></strong> will exclusively premiere their forthcoming album<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></strong><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Habits of the Heart</span></b></em>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">today, October 11th, 2011</span></strong>.<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></i></strong>The 12-track album, Idle Warship's first official collection of songs, is now streaming in its entirety on Spotify <a href="http://open.spotify.com/album/415CUPKdOfjnWwhn0Q5bsA" target="_blank">here</a>. This partnership marks the first
time that <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Spotify U.S.</span></strong> has debuted an album weeks ahead of its release date; <em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Habits of the Heart</span></b></em> is due out
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">November 1st, 2011,</span></strong> via
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Blacksmith/Element 9/Fontana</span></strong>. The premiere also solidifies
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Idle Warship</span></strong> even further as not only a group that embraces the music industry's ever-evolving digital and social media landscape, but is helping to push it fo</span><span style="color:#1F497D">r</span><span style="color:black">ward
– they approached <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Spotify</span></strong> with the unconventional idea of debuting their album a full three weeks ahead of release date.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">A collaboration between hip-hop luminary
<b>Talib Kweli</b> and critically acclaimed soulful singer and songwriter <b>Res</b>,
<b>Idle Warship</b> is a genre-bending musical project born out of sheer experimentation and unbridled creative expression. <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Idle Warship</span></strong>'s free-thinking approach has always crossed over
from the studio to the other end of the process - the delivery of the music. After releasing free music across the web for the past four years,
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Idle Warship</span></strong> unveiled
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">"System Addict,"</span></strong> a track off
<em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Habits of the Heart</span></b></em>, on the now wildly-popular social music site
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Turntable.fm</span></strong> just weeks after its launch. Talib Kweli even received Turntable.fm's very first verified account.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Now with the</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Spotify
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">album premiere, it’s clear that</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Idle<span style="color:black"> Warship</span></span></strong><span style="color:black">
has become an early adopter of exciting new social distribution channels that allow them to make their music available to their loyal fans and new audiences in entirely news ways.
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Spotify</span></strong> has become the largest and most successful music service of its kind since its 2008 launch in Sweden. With its unrivaled free service and its recent integration with Facebook,
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Spotify</span></strong> meets
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Idle Warship</span></strong> at a time when both are on the cusp of their own boundless new frontiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Be sure to head over to <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Spotify</span></strong> to check out
<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Habits of the Heart </span></i></strong>today! The album offers a thrilling hyb</span><span style="color:#1F497D">r</span><span style="color:black">id of influences - flashes of<b>
</b>soul, hip-hop, rock, alternative and electronic - and features guest spots from
<b>Jean Grae, Jay Knocka,</b> <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Chester French, Michelle Williams & John Forte.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">About Spotify:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.spotify.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="DE" style="color:black">Spotify</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> is an award-winning digital
music service that offers on-demand access to over 15 million tracks*. Their dream is to make all the world’s music available instantly to everyone, wherever and whenever they want it. Spotify makes it easier than ever to discover, manage and share music with
your friends, while making sure that artists get a fair deal. Spotify is available in eight countries: USA, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, The Netherlands and Spain. Spotify is the fastest-growing and most successful music service of its kind globally,
with an unrivaled 10 million registered users and growing, and more than 2 million paying subscribers.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.spotify.com" target="_blank"><span lang="DE" style="color:#0066CC">www.spotify.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="SV" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">*Number of
</span></i><i><span lang="SV" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222">tracks</span></i><i><span lang="SV" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> licensed globally. Catalogue size varies in each country.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.idlewarship.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#0066CC">www.idlewarship.com</span></b></a><b><u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="color:black">Upcoming Idle Warship Live Dates:</span></u></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">October 28</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">th</span></sup><span style="color:black"> Pittsburgh, PA @ Shadow Lounge Outdoor Music Series</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">October 30</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">th</span></sup><span style="color:black"> Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For more information on Idle Warship, please contact:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Press Here</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">212-246-2640</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Gina Schulman / <a href="mailto:gina@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0066CC">gina@pressherepublicity.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Carla Senft / <a href="mailto:carla@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0066CC">carla@pressherepublicity.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For more information on Spotify, please contact:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0066CC"><a href="mailto:Press@spotify.com">Press@spotify.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:purple">Carla Senft</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:purple">Press Here
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif";color:purple">New York, New York 10001</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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