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Arc Light (album)

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Released
  
March 30, 2009

Release date
  
30 March 2009

Label
  
Navigator Records

Artist
  
Lau

Producer
  
Calum Malcolm

Genre
  
Folk music

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Recorded
  
Castle Sound, Pencaitland, Scotland, December 2008,Heriot Toun Studio

Similar
  
Lightweights and Gentlemen, The Bell That Never Rang, Live, Mark the Hard Earth, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Arc Light is the second studio album by contemporary folk three-piece Lau, released on March 30, 2009 on Navigator Records.

Contents

The album's bonus track is a cover of The Beatles' song, "Dear Prudence". The track originally appeared on a compilation issued free with Mojo magazine.

Reception

Like its predecessor, Lightweights and Gentlemen, Arc Light garnered strong critical acclaim upon release. Chris Nickson of Allmusic described the album as "stirring and utterly wonderful," while Michael Quinn, of BBC Music remarked that "what astonishes most about Lau is the orchestral quality of the sound." Music webzine The Line of Best Fit stated that: "Arc Light is testament to their constant need to push themselves as musicians, and as innovators of the folk movement."

Track listing

All tracks arranged by Kris Drever, Martin Green and Aidan O'Rourke

  1. "The Burrian" (Drever/Green/O'Rourke)
  2. "Winter Moon" (Drever/Green/O'Rourke)
  3. "Horizontigo"
  4. "Horizontigo" (Drever)
  5. "Alright in the Heid" (Green)
  6. "Salty Boys"
  7. "Operation Knoydart (O'Rourke)
  8. "Salty Boys" (Drever)
  9. "Banks of Marble" (Les Rice/Drever/Green/O'Rourke)
  10. "Stephen's"
  11. "Stephen's Leaving" (Green)
  12. "Plot No.12" (O'Rourke)
  13. "The Master" (Drever/Green/O'Rourke)
  14. "Frank and Flo's"
  15. "Frank and Flo's" (Green)
  16. "An Tobar" (O'Rourke)
  17. "Temple of Fiddes" (Drever/O'Rourke)

Bonus track

  • "Dear Prudence" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

    • Personnel

    The following people contributed to Arc Light

    Band

  • Kris Drever - guitar, vocals
  • Martin Green - accordion
  • Aidan O'Rourke - fiddle

    • Additional musicians

  • Stuart Nisbet - pedal steel guitar
  • Corrina Hewat - backing vocals
  • Karine Polwart - backing vocals
  • Inge Thomson - backing vocals

    • Recording personnel

  • Calum Malcolm - producer, mixing, mastering
  • Lau (band) - mixing
  • Stuart Hamilton - engineering

    • Artwork

  • David Angel - photography

    • Songs

    1The Burrian6:38
    2Winter Moon3:22
    3Horizontigo7:16

    References

    Arc Light (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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