A very Special priority for V2.

After recently signing Duke Special, V2 thickens the plot to propel his profile into the primetime limelight

DUKE SPECIAL Songs from the deep forest (V2)

Having self-released his debut album Adventures In Gramophone last year, Irish-born Duke Special is poised to enter the mainstream with the help of V2 this October.

Signed by the label earlier this year, Duke Special will release Songs From The Deep Forest on October 23, a new album incorporating a handful of tracks from his debut. V2 believes it is a set that will affirm his "cross-over appeal".

"To all intensive purposes this is a new album," affirms Claire Moon, V2 senior marketing manager, who says they will be tapping into his distinctive image to sell the record. "He's a very visual artist - he has gramophones on stage, it's all very vaudeville - and we've tried to get that across in the way we market the album."

The album will be supported by a highly visual, tastemaker campaign and a collector's edition wooden boxed set, which contains the album on seven pieces of seven-inch vinyl.

The visual themes will continue with Special's first two videos, which have been shot by director Ryan Suffern, whose clips for Last Night I Nearly Died and future single Freewheel, when run together, will comprise a short 10-minute film.