Congratulations to all the 2021 Recording Academy / GRAMMYs nominees! We’re pleased to announce that a selection of projects recorded, mixed and mastered at Abbey Road have been included within the nominations. From composer Thomas Newman's immense score for 1917, to Miles Showell's mastering work on the Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark career box set Souvenir – read the full list below.

Composed by Thomas Newman at Abbey Road, the epic project was completed here from the writing, prelays, orchestral recording and music mix. Newman first brought the score to Abbey Road in September of 2018, where he explains of the excitement of recording here: “One of the great joys of recording the score for 1917 in London was the opportunity once again to work at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. It truly is an extraordinary place to make music.” Sessions were engineered by Shinnosuke Miyazawa and Abbey Road's Simon Rhodes, assisted by Gordon Davidson, Matt Jones, Daniel Hayden, George Oulton and Neil Dawes.

Newman’s score has already been nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA last year, and has won a selection of industry awards. Here's hoping for another win in January!

Taken from the film based on the true story of Judy Garland’s final concerts in London in the late 1960s, Academy Award winner and three times Academy Award nominee Renée Zellweger released her first ever solo album last year which is now up for a nomination! Released on Decca Records, the soundtrack marked 50 years since Judy Garland’s premature death in 1969, and 80 years since she shot to teenage stardom in The Wizard of Oz in 1939.

The album brought Zellweger to Abbey Road's Gatehouse studio to record vocals for the film, with sessions engineered by Geoff Foster, assisted by George Oulton and Jack Mills.

Up next is Grammy award-winning jazz maestro Gregory Porter, who has been nominated for Best R&B Album with All Rise. Following on from 2017’s Nat King Cole & Me album, Porter’s latest record marks a return to his beloved original songwriting which is set to a stirring mix of jazz, soul, blues and gospel.

He explains, “For me, it’s the message of walking into this life and having some fear and self-doubt, and the point where you grab onto something that you know is real, the silent and real things, the truth… Once you can wrap onto the truth then this fearlessness comes.”

Produced by Troy Miller, strings for the record were recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra in Studio One. Engineered by our very own Lewis Jones, assisted by Matt Jones.

The decision to take a radical approach with their sophomore record has worked perfectly, with A Hero’s Death having all the credentials of a classic rock and roll album. Produced by Music Producer’s Guild award-winner Dan Carey and mastered by Abbey Road’s Christian Wright, who was thrilled to master the project: “My Emerald Isle pride rises to the brim when being allowed to tweak Fontaines D.C. music. The symbiosis of Dan Carey (MPG Producer of the Year) and the band drives deeper on album two. Hard and darker and yet deeper and more introspective, it’s every bit Dogrel’s successor and just as wonderful”.

The band’s explosive rise to the top has been potent, and their Grammy nomination is testament to this. A Hero's Death is sonically distinct from their debut, and represents the next chapter in the post-punk band’s career.

Paul McCartney’s 10th solo album, 1997’s Flaming Pie, has become the 13th instalment in his Grammy-winning Archive Collection. The acclaimed set, which is up for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package, features such favourites as Young Boy, Calico Skies and Beautiful Night, and has been remastered by Abbey Road’s Alex Wharton and cut at half-speed by Miles Showell.

Flaming Pie was originally released on 5 May 1997, ending a four year gap between McCartney studio albums since Off The Ground. It was recorded largely after Paul’s involvement in the curation and release of The Beatles' Anthology series and took inspiration from that experience. Produced by Paul, Jeff Lynne, and George Martin and featuring a supporting cast of family and friends including Ringo Starr, Steve Miller, Linda McCartney, and son James, Flaming Pie is equal parts a masterclass in songcraft and a burst of joyful spontaneity.

Flaming Pie represented a peak in Paul’s solo catalogue. Released to rapturous reviews, the album would be Paul's most commercially successful release of the '90s, achieving his highest chart positions since the '80s and would receive gold certifications in the US, UK, Japan and more.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) are celebrating their 40th anniversary career box set, Souvenir, with a Grammy nomination! Souvenir is the latest exciting installment of the band’s anniversary celebrations which first saw the reissue of their first four classic albums on 180g vinyl, mastered at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road and housed in their original iconic die cut sleeves designed by the legendary Peter Saville.

The audio discs include all the band’s singles from Electricity to What Have We Done, as well as a brand new single Don’t Go, exclusive to this release. The box set also includes a previously unreleased live show from the Hammersmith Odeon in 1983, 22 previously unreleased demos from the archive which have been selected and mixed by Paul Humphreys, rare and unreleased live material from the BBC and an entire live show from the Mermaid Theatre in 2011.

Seven years after the release of his first album, The Golden Age, French artist Woodkid returned this year with a melancholy and eminently political sophomore album, S16. A skillful blend of meticulous sound design, futuristic electronics and majestic strings, on which Woodkid lend his hauntings vocals, meld together on the impressive release. S16 is served by a strong and always striking visual universe, and rightly up for Best Music Video for Goliath.

We were honoured to welcome Woodkid (aka Yoann Lemoine) into Studio Two to record the strings, woodwind and brass for S16 with Abbey Road's John Barrett, assisted by Christopher Parker.