Paul Epworth
Birth namePaul Richard Epworth
Also known asPhones
Epic Man
Born (1974-07-25) 25 July 1974
Bishop's Stortford, England
GenresIndie rock, punk rock, hip hop, pop, dance
Occupation(s)Record producer, songwriter, musician, remixer
Instrument(s)Drums, percussion, bass, guitar, keyboards, trumpet
Years active2000–present
LabelsColumbia
Websitepaulepworth.com

Paul Richard Epworth (born 25 July 1974) is an English record producer, songwriter, musician, and remixer. He has worked with artists including Adele, Florence and the Machine, Rihanna, and Maxïmo Park, among many others. He is a member of the Music Producers Guild and is the founder and owner of the independent record label Wolf Tone, which has released music from Glass Animals, Rosie Lowe, and The Horrors.

Epworth has won the Brit Award for British Producer of the Year three times, the most recent in 2015. He has won seven Grammy Awards, as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Skyfall".[1] He released his debut studio album Voyager in 2020.

Early life

Paul Richard Epworth was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on 25 July 1974.[2]

Career

Lomax

From 2002 to 2004, Epworth provided lead vocals and guitar for the band Lomax.[3] He later remixed two songs from the band's catalogue – "Reiterator" and "Modern Life".[4]

Remixing

Epworth is well known for his remix work under the name "Phones". He began to gain recognition with this moniker based on his work with Bloc Party's track "Banquet"; he has since provided remix work for New Order, U2, P-Diddy, Goldfrapp, Nine Inch Nails, Simian Mobile Disco, The Streets, Interpol, Tom Vek, Death from Above 1979, Annie and Coldplay. His debut of original material under the Phones name, "Sharpen the Knives"/"Worryin", was released on French label Kitsuné in November 2006. In 2008 he announced he had stopped using the Phones name but has said he continues to remix anonymously.

In early 2006, Epworth began making music under another alias, 'Epic Man'. His debut single, "More Is Enough", featured Plan B and was featured on the soundtrack for Need For Speed: Pro Street and was released on Good & Evil Records, a subsidiary of 679 Recordings. He has since returned to his Phones name and there are no known plans to release under Epic Man again.[4]

Production and writing

In 2004–05, Epworth produced four critically acclaimed releases, including two Mercury Music Prize nominations in Silent Alarm by Bloc Party and A Certain Trigger by Maxïmo Park, the bulk of The Futureheads eponymous debut (including the hit Kate Bush cover "Hounds Of Love"), and Capture/Release by The Rakes as well as singles by Babyshambles and The Long Blondes. He also wrote and produced tracks for British rappers, Kano ("Don't Know Why") and Plan B ("No Good" and "Where You From") This was followed in 2006 by production work on Pieces of the People We Love by The Rapture and the debut album by French band Black Strobe, entitled Burn Your Own Church.

In 2007, Epworth began to contribute more co-writing credits alongside his production. For example, his production on the number one debut album Made of Bricks by Kate Nash included a writing credit on the hit single "Foundations" (for which he was nominated for an Ivor Novello songwriters award.) In 2008, Epworth produced much of Sam Sparro's eponymous debut album which entered the UK album charts at number 4 and the Primal Scream single, "Can't Go Back", along with the title track of their recent album Beautiful Future. Epworth also completed production duties on much of the new Bloc Party record, Intimacy and co-wrote and produced Friendly Fires track "Jump In The Pool".

Early 2009 saw Epworth co-writing and recording Jack Peñate's critically lauded second album Everything Is New including the singles "Tonight's Today" and "Be the One". He also co-wrote and produced tracks for Florence and the Machine's debut album Lungs, including the hit single "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" along with the album tracks "Howl", "Cosmic Love", "Hurricane Drunk" and "Blinding". He also worked further with Friendly Fires on a single version of the track "Skeleton Boy" and produced the forthcoming single by The Big Pink, "Stop the World". In February 2009 he won best newcomer at the inaugural Music Producers' Guild Awards. In Spring 2009, Epworth co-produced another single with The Big Pink entitled "Dominos", and a new Friendly Fires single "Kiss of Life".

Summer 2009 brought Epworth his third and fourth Mercury music prize nomination in the shape of Florence and the Machine's Lungs and Friendly Fires' eponymous debut. He also finished album tracks for Norwegian pop artist Annie for her delayed album Don't Stop; wrote the "Zingolo" for Cadbury's "Fair Trade" advert, featuring Ghanaian MC Tinny; and mixed the track "Silva & Grimes" for Holy Fuck's Latin lp. He finished up the year working on new tracks by London MC/Singer Plan B for his number 1 album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks including the top 10 single "Stay Too Long", and tracks for Canadian duo Crystal Castles (including single Celestica), writing with Grammy winner Adele, singer Sky Ferreira and producing a single version of album track "Tonight" with The Big Pink.

In February 2010, Epworth won both the Brit Award and the Music Producers' Guild Award for Producer Of The Year and also won Music Week's Producer of the Year Award in April.[5][6]

Early 2010 saw Epworth deliver tracks for London band Chapel Club's forthcoming LP and begin work on both Friendly Fires' and Florence and the Machine's second LPs. He also signed a solo deal with Columbia Records, with no album forthcoming until 2019.[7] Epworth added his production hand to Primary 1's album, including lead single "Princess".[8] Summer 2010 saw him provide production on two versions of Cee Lo Green's cover of Band of Horses' "No One's Gonna Love You", and for the single "It's OK".

Late 2010 and early 2011 saw the release of the acclaimed Epworth co-written and produced worldwide number one single "Rolling in the Deep" from Adele's 21. The album features three Epworth co-writes with Adele, which he produced "I'll Be Waiting", while "He Won't Go" was produced by Rick Rubin. Summer 2011 saw Epworth producing The Big Pink's Future This[9] and the critically acclaimed Ceremonials by Florence and the Machine.

On 12 February 2012 at the 54th Grammy Awards, he won four Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Album of the Year (Adele's 21), and Song of the Year and Record of the Year (for "Rolling in the Deep"). Later that year, Epworth founded the independent record label Wolf Tone.[10] One of the first acts signed to the label was Glass Animals.[11][12] Wolf Tone would later sign artists including Rosie Lowe,[13] The Horrors,[14][15][16] Plaitum, Elle Watson, Art School Girlfriend, Harry Edwards,[17] Lunch Money Life, and AV Dummy.[18]

In 2013, Epworth and Adele received the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 70th Golden Globe Awards for the song "Skyfall".[19] Epworth and Adele also received the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 85th Academy Awards for "Skyfall".[1]

In late 2015, Adele released her third album 25, which features two tracks co-written and produced by Epworth, "I Miss You" and "Sweetest Devotion". 25 won for Album of the Year at the 59th Grammy Awards.

In 2016, Epworth produced two tracks for The Stone Roses, "All for One" and "Beautiful Thing", which he also mixed. He served as executive producer on the Glass Animals album How to Be a Human Being, which was released by Wolf Tone. Paul also co-wrote and produced the Usher track "Chains" featuring Nas and Bibi Bourelly.

On 30 August 2019, he released the first track from a new project to be released via Columbia Records.[7]

In September 2020, Epworth released his debut studio album Voyager.[20] Voyager draws on Epworth's love of house and cosmic disco, influenced by and channelled through a heavy filter of 70s sci fi.[7] In the same month, Epworth gave an interview to NME in which he talks extensively about his long-standing working relationship with Adele.[21][22]

The Church Studios

In October 2013, Epworth bought The Church Studios, a recording studio in the Crouch End area of London. The studio had previously been owned by David A. Stewart in the 1980s and 1990s, and was used to record music by Eurythmics, Bob Dylan and Radiohead, among others. David Gray then owned the studio until Epworth took over in 2013. The Church studios has three working commercial studios, all refurbished by the Walters-Storyk Design Group and Miloco builds. Epworth had a 72-Channel Vintage EMI Neve Console installed in studio 1, and a Solid State Logic console installed in studio 2. Since Epworth's ownership of the Church Studios, notable artists such as Mumford and Sons, U2, Adele, Frank Ocean, and London Grammar have recorded there.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

(as Phones)

  • 2006: "Sharpen the Knives / Worryin'"

(as Epic Man)

(as Paul Epworth)

Songwriting and production credits

Title Year Artist Album Songwriter Producer
Primary Secondary Additional Vocal
"Banquet" 2004 Bloc Party Bloc Party EP check
"Little Thoughts" Little Thoughts EP check
"Tulips" check
"Le Garage" The Futureheads The Futureheads check
"Robot" check
"Decent Days and Nights" check
"Meantime" check
"Danger of the Water" check
"Carnival Kids" check
"He Knows" check
"Stupid and Shallow" check
"Hounds of Love" check
"Man Ray" check
"The Coast Is Always Changing" Maxïmo Park A Certain Trigger check
"Storm & Stress" Bloc Party Little Thoughts EP check
"Helicopter" check
"Skeleton" check
"So Here We Are" 2005 Silent Alarm check
"Positive Tension" check
"Like Eating Glass" check
"Blue Light" check
"She's Hearing Voices" check
"This Modern Love" check
"Pioneers" check
"Price of Gas" check
"Luno" check
"Plans" check
"Compliments" check
"Two More Years" check
"Apply Some Pressure" Maxïmo Park A Certain Trigger check
"Graffiti" check
"Signal and Sign" check
"Postcard of a Painting" check
"Going Missing" check
"I Want You to Stay" check
"Limassol" check
"The Night I Lost My Mind" check
"Once, A Glimpse" check
"Now I'm All Over the Shop" check
"Acrobat" check
"Kiss You Better" check
"I Don't Know Why" Kano Home Sweet Home check
"Hero" Bloc Party Non-album single check
"Where Ya From?" 2006 Plan B Who Needs Actions When
You Got Words		 check check
"No Good" check check
"Get Myself Into It" The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love check
"Don Gon Do It" check
"First Gear" check
"The Devil" check
"Whoo! Alright-Yeah... Uh Huh" check
"Down for So Long" check
"The Sound" check
"Live in Sunshine" check
"Shooting Star" check
"On and On" check
"Turn It Up" Alesha Dixon Fired Up check check
"Foundations" 2007 Kate Nash Made of Bricks check check
"Brenn Di Ega Kjerke" Black Strobe Burn Your Own Church check
"Shining Bright Star" check
"Girl Next Door" check
"Blood Shot Eyes" check
"Now What You Need" check
"I'm a Man" check
"Lady 13" check
"You Should Be" check
"Buzz Buzz Buzz" check
"Last Club on Earth" check
"Crave for Speed" check
"Play" Kate Nash Made of Bricks check
"Mouthwash" check
"Dickhead" check
"Birds" check
"We Get On" check
"Mariella" check
"Shit Song" check
"Pumpkin Soup" check check
"Skeleton Song" check
"Nicest Thing" check
"Merry Happy" check
"A is for Asthma" check
"Little Red" check
"Stitching Leggings" check
"Navy Taxi" check
"Habanera" check
"Mercury" 2008 Bloc Party Intimacy check
"Ares" check
"Halo" check
"Biko" check
"Trojan Horse" check
"Signs" check
"One Month Off" check
"Zephyrus" check
"Talons" check
"Better than Heaven" check
"Ion Square" check
"Letter to My Son" check
"Your Visits are Getting Shorter" check
"Tonight's Today" 2009 Jack Peñate Everything Is New check check
"Be the One" check check
"Pull My Heart Away" check check
"Everything is New" check check
"So Near" check
"Every Glance" check check
"Give Yourself Away" check check
"Let's All Die" check
"Body Down" check
"Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" Florence + the Machine Lungs check check
"Howl" check check
"Cosmic Love" check
"Hurricane Drunk" check
"Blinding" check check
"Stay Too Long" 2010 Plan B The Defamation of Strickland Banks check
"Writing's on the Wall" check
"Welcome to Hell" check
"Prayin'" check
"Celestica" Crystal Castles II check
"I Am Made of Chalk" check
"It's OK" CeeLo Green The Lady Killer check
"No One's Gonna Love You" check
"Heavy in Your Arms" Florence + the Machine The Twilight Saga: Eclipse OST check check
"Rolling in the Deep" Adele 21 check check
"He Won't Go" 2011 check
"I'll Be Waiting" check check
"Live Those Days Tonight" Friendly Fires Pala check check
"Blue Cassette" check
"Hurting" check
"Show Me Lights" check
"Chimes" check
"Call It What You Want" Foster the People Torches check check
"I Would Do Anything for You" check
"Life on the Nickel" check check
"Sorry 4 the Wait" Lil Wayne Sorry 4 the Wait check
"What the Water Gave Me" Florence + the Machine Ceremonials check
"Shake It Out" check check
"Only If for a Night" check check
"Never Let Me Go" check check
"Breaking Down" check
"Lover to Lover" check
"No Light, No Light" check
"Seven Devils" check check
"Heartlines" check check
"Spectrum (Say My Name)" check check
"All This and Heaven Too" check
"Leave My Body" check check
"Strangeness and Charm" check check
"Bedroom Hymns" check
"Ruby" 2012 Foster the People Non-album single check
"Skyfall" Adele Non-album single check check
"Natalie" Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox check check
"Save Us" 2013 Paul McCartney New check check
"Queenie Eye" check check
"Road" check check
"God's Help" Louis Mattrs Beachy Head EP check
"Coming of Age" 2014 Foster the People Supermodel check check
"Pseudologia Fantastica" check check
"Magic" Coldplay Ghost Stories check
"Best Friend" Foster the People Supermodel check
"Are You What You Want to Be?" check
"Ask Yourself" check
"Nevermind" check check
"The Angelic Welcome of Mr. Jones" check
"A Beginner's Guide to Destroying the Moon" check check
"Goats in Trees" check check
"The Truth" check
"Fire Escape" check
"Cassius Clay's Pearly Whites" check check
"Midnight" Coldplay Ghost Stories check
"A Sky Full of Stars" check
"Falling Star" The Horrors Luminous check
"Always in My Head" Coldplay Ghost Stories check
"Ink" check
"True Love" check
"Another's Arms" check
"Oceans" check
"O" check
"All Your Friends" check
"Ghost Story" check
"O (Reprise)" check
"Black Beauty" Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence check
"Pendulum" FKA twigs LP1 check check
"Shoot Love" Maroon 5 V check check
"The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)" U2 Songs of Innocence check
"California (There is No End to Love)" check
"Iris (Hold Me Close)" check
"Volcano" check
"Cedarwood Road" check
"Water Came Down" Rosie Lowe non-album single check
"Yellow Flicker Beat" Lorde The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay, Pt. 1 OST		 check
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Various artists Non-album single check
"How'd You Like It" Rosie Lowe check
"Citizen Zombie" 2015 The Pop Group Citizen Zombie check
"Mad Truth" check
"Nowhere Girl" check
"Shadow Child" check
"The Immaculate Deception" check
"S.O.P.H.I.A." check
"Box 9" check
"Nations" check
"St. Outrageous" check
"Age of Miracles" check
"Echelon" check
"Mother" Florence + the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful check check
"Unstoppable" Lianne La Havas Blood check check
"Chains"
(featuring Nas and Bibi Bourelly)		 Usher Non-album single check check
"I Miss You" Adele 25 check check
"Sweetest Devotion" check check
"We Can Hurt Together (Hurt with Me)" 2016 Sia Non-album single check check
"Goodnight Gotham" Rihanna Anti check
"Dominos" Peter Bjorn and John Breakin' Point check
"Beautiful Thing" The Stone Roses Non-album single check
"All For One" The Stone Roses Non-album single check
"A Long Goodbye" Peter Bjorn and John Breakin' Point check
"Nostalgic Intellect" check
"Hard Sleep" check
"Need U"
(with Priyanka Chopra)		 Usher Hard II Love check check
"Rooting for You" 2017 London Grammar Truth Is a Beautiful Thing check
"Smoke of Dreams" Thurston Moore Rock n Roll Consciousness check
"Truth Is a Beautiful Thing" London Grammar Truth Is a Beautiful Thing check
"Oh Woman Oh Man" check
"Exalted" Thurston Moore Rock n Roll Consciousness check
"Cusp" check
"Turn On" check
"Aphrodite" check
"Cease Fire" check
"Mx Liberty" check
"Letter to Falon" Jay Electronica Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) check
"Hell to the Liars" London Grammar Truth Is a Beautiful Thing check
"Non Believer" check check
"Bones of Ribbon" check
"Different Breeds" check
"Control" check check
"May the Best" check
"Machine" The Horrors V check
"Something to Remember Me By" check
"Weighed Down" check
"Hologram" check
"Press Enter to Exit" check
"Ghost" check
"Point of No Reply" check
"Gathering" check
"World Below" check
"It's a Good Life" check
"Fire Escape" check
"Water Drop" check
"13 (There is a Light)" U2 Songs of Experience check
"Ordinary Love" check
"Let Me Down"
(featuring Stormzy)		 2018 Jorja Smith Non-album single check
"Wild Love" James Bay Electric Light check
"Pink Lemonade" check
"Us" check
"Wasted on Each Other" check
"In My Head" check
"Just for Tonight" check
"Wanderlust" check
"I Found You" check
"Stand Up" check check
"Fade Out" check
"Slide" check
"Young Hearts in the Dark" check
"Invoice" Serpentwithfeet Soil check check
"Tearing Down the Walls" Elias Entwined check check
"Love Hurts" check
"No Deeper Can We Fall" check check
"Don't Let Me Wait" check check
"Gold" check check
"The Entwined" check
"Arrested"
(featuring Norma Jean Martine)		 Love Thy Brother Non-album single check
"Nostalgia" Jacob Banks Village check check
"Pressure" Elle Watson Clinchers check check
"Bruised" check check
"Suspended" check
"Glued" check
"Guiding Light" Mumford & Sons Delta check
"If I Say" check
"42" check
"Woman" check
"Beloved" check
"The Wild" check
"October Skies" check
"Slip Away" check
"Rose of Sharon" check
"Picture You" check
"Darkness Visible" check
"Wild Heart" check
"Forever" check
"Delta" check
"Star" 2019 Beck Hyperspace check check
"Hawaiian Mazes" BANKS III check check
"Don't Forget To Breathe" Stormzy Heavy is the Head check
"Offline" Aeris Roves Non-album single check check
"Round and Round" Jack Peñate After You check check
"Murder" check check
"GMT" check check
"Dreamland" 2020 Glass Animals Dreamland check
"Tangerine" check check
"Hot Sugar" check
"Space Ghost (Coast To Coast)" check
"Your Love (Déjà Vu)" check
"It's All So Incredibly Loud" check
"Heat Waves" check
"Trouble's Coming" Royal Blood Typhoons check
"Who Needs Friends" 2021 check
"Too Good" Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams check check
"Portra 400" check check
"Mad" Hope Tala Non-album single check check
"Extra Clip"
(featuring NLE Choppa)		 GoldLink HARAM! check check
"White Walls" check check
"Paradise" James Vincent McMorrow Grapefuit Season check
"Planes In The Sky" check check
"Gone" check
"Woman" Lola Young Non-album single check
"Ruin My Make Up" check
"FAKE" check
"Slidin' (EOB Remix)" Paul McCartney check
"Softly" 2022 Arlo Parks check check
"So Sorry" Lola Young check check
"This Hell" Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl check check
"Frankenstein" check check
"Daydreaming" Harry Stone Non-album single check check
"Seasons Change" MorMor Semblance check

Remixes

Awards and nominations

References

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  2. ↑ "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006 - findmypast.co.uk". search.findmypast.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 May 2016.
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  4. 1 2 "PAUL EPSWORTH (producer)". Music Finder. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
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  6. ↑ "Adele Producer Talks About Her New Album, Other Projects - Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
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  13. ↑ "Rosie Lowe: YU review – seductive, minimalist soul probes power balance". The Guardian. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
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  17. ↑ "Harry Edwards' "Tame" video will put you through your paces". The FADER. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
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