Edited by Jonathan Cohen / July 18, 2002, 11:15 AM



Duncan Sheik Reveals 'Daylight'




Singer/songwriter Duncan Sheik is readying his fourth Atlantic
album, "Daylight," for an Aug. 27 release. The disc will be Sheik's
first since his unconventional 2001 Nonesuch/Atlantic
release "Phantom Moon," a collaborative project with playwright
Steven Sater.

On "Daylight," Sheik returns to the pop arrangements found on his
first two albums. The set was produced by Sheik and Patrick Leonard
(Madonna, Jewel, Elton John), and features work by session
guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Gerry Leonard (David Bowie, Laurie
Anderson), bassist Jeff Allen (Avril Lavigne), and drummer Doug
Yowell (Suzanne Vega). The London Session Orchestra contributes
strings to four of the disc's 11 songs.

Sheik wrote all of the songs on "Daylight" except Leonard's "Start
Again" and "Oh Her Mind," which he penned in tandem with Foreigner's
Mick Jones. First single "On a High" was shipped to U.S. pop radio
outlets July 15. "I've lately been in the mood for music that has an
immediate and uplifting effect on the listener," the artist said in a
statement about his new album. "I was interested in making a record
that seemed more positive and electric, but still contained within it
layers of subtlety and nuance."

Sheik's self-titled Atlantic debut hit No. 1 on Billboard's
Heatseekers chart in March 1997, and climbed to No. 83 on The
Billboard 200 that April on the strength of the single "Barely
Breathing," which spent 30 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100, peaking at
No. 16. The follow-up album, "Humming," debuted at No. 163 on The
Billboard 200 in October 1998.


-- Troy Carpenter, N.Y.