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Brett Anderson (album)

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Released
  
26 March 2007

Length
  
38:26

Genre
  
Indie rock

Recorded
  
at The Pink Room and Kore between winter '05 and spring '06

Label
  
Drowned in Sound Recordings

Producer
  
Brett Anderson and Fred Ball

Brett Anderson is the first solo release from Suede and The Tears frontman Brett Anderson.

Contents

In May 2006, Anderson announced sketchy details for the album. He told NME that the title will be 'Brett Anderson' since "...that's my name, you see."

The album was recorded whilst Anderson was recording The Tears' debut album alongside Bernard Butler.

Anderson has described the record as being "...quite orchestrated, lots of string loops, that sort of thing. I guess there's a Scott Walker feel to it. I'm very proud of it; it's a very exciting record for me."

The album sees Anderson taking on many more instruments than ever before. "I've played a lot of electric guitar on it; I've written a lot of the electric guitar parts. It's my baby and I've obviously been pretty obsessed with it."

The album was not a commercial success, charting at no. 54 in the UK. It garnered mixed reviews, with a score of 51/100 at aggregator website Metacritic.

The cover was designed by Peter Saville, with photography by Wolfgang Tillmans.

Track listing

All songs written by Brett Anderson and Fred Ball except where noted.

  1. "Love Is Dead" – 3:31
  2. "One Lazy Morning" – 3:20
  3. "Dust and Rain" – 3:01
  4. "Intimacy" (Anderson) – 2:48
  5. "To the Winter" – 3:57
  6. "Scorpio Rising" (Anderson) – 4:01
  7. "The Infinite Kiss" – 4:08
  8. "Colour of the Night" – 2:18
  9. "The More We Possess the Less We Own of Ourselves" – 3:33
  10. "Ebony" (Anderson) – 2:32
  11. "Song for My Father" – 5:17

Personnel

  • Fred Ball – Keyboards, Programming, Producer, String Arrangements
  • Jim Dare – Guitars
  • Bastian Juel – Bass
  • Kristoffer Sonne – Drums
  • The Dirty Pretty Strings – Strings
  • Jim Hunt – Flute
  • Bunt Stafford Clark – Mastering
  • Steve Fitzmaurice – Mixing
  • Dyre Gormsen – Engineer
  • Peter Saville – Artwork
  • Howard Wakefield – Artwork
  • References

    Brett Anderson (album) Wikipedia