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Ferment (album)

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Released
  
9 June 1992

Ferment (1992)
  
Chrome (1993)

Release date
  
9 June 1992

Label
  
Fontana Records

Length
  
57:10

Artist
  
Catherine Wheel

Producer
  
Tim Friese-Greene

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Recorded
  
1991–1992, Monnow Valley Studio, Rockfield, Wales

Genres
  
Shoegazing, Alternative rock

Similar
  
Catherine Wheel albums, Shoegazing albums

Catherine wheel ferment full album


Ferment is the first full-length album by the English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, released in 1992 on Fontana Records. Four songs ("Shallow," "I Want to Touch You," "She's My Friend," and "Salt") had previously appeared on independently released 12" EPs, and were re-recorded for inclusion on the album. The lead single, "Black Metallic," reached the top ten (peaking at number nine) of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. In March 2010, the album was re-released, containing bonus tracks and extensive sleeve notes. The songs included on the 1992 extended play 30th Century Man were also included on the 2010 bonus track edition of Ferment.

Contents

In 2016, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 23 in their list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time," with Ben Cardew of the website commenting that "a good half of the songs on Ferment, their debut, are enduring shoegaze-disco classics, while "Black Metallic", in its full seven-minute glory, makes a strong claim to being the genre's 'Stairway to Heaven'."

Catherine wheel texture


Track listing

All songs written by Rob Dickinson and Brian Futter.

  1. "Texture" – 4:19
  2. "I Want to Touch You" – 4:40
  3. "Black Metallic" – 7:18
  4. "Indigo Is Blue" – 5:31
  5. "She's My Friend" – 4:16
  6. "Shallow" – 3:28
  7. "Ferment" – 5:10
  8. "Flower to Hide" – 4:43
  9. "Tumbledown" – 4:08
  10. "Bill and Ben" – 4:09
  11. "Salt" – 5:26
  12. "Balloon" – 3:56

Limited numbers of the UK version came with a three 3-track live EP, recorded at Bath Moles Club on 6 November 1991.

  • CWLCD 1 (bonus CD); CWLVE12 (bonus 12" with vinyl LP album)
    1. "Shallow" (Live) – 3:27
    2. "I Want to Touch You" (Live) – 5:58
    3. "Salt" (Live) – 6:39

    • Singles

  • "She's My Friend" (January 1991)
  • Wilde Club Records WILDE 4 (12" vinyl)
    1. "She's My Friend" – 4:29
    2. "Upside Down" – 3:13
    3. "Wish" – 3:10
    4. "Salt" – 3:54
  • "Painful Thing" (May 1991)
  • Wilde Club Records WILDE 5 (12" vinyl); WILDE 5 CD (CD)
    1. "Shallow" – 3:27
    2. "Spin" – 2:44
    3. "Painful Thing" – 3:59
    4. "I Want to Touch You" – 5:05
  • "Black Metallic" (November 1991)
  • Fontana CWCD 1 (CD); CW 112 (12" vinyl)
    1. "Black Metallic" – 7:16
    2. "Crawling Over Me" – 5:39
    3. "Let Me Down Again" – 3:17
    4. "Saccharine" – 5:49
  • Fontana CW 1 (7" vinyl)
    1. "Black Metallic" (Edit) – 4:09
    2. "Let Me Down Again" – 3:17
  • Mercury CDP 693 (US promo CD)
    1. "Black Metallic" – 7:16
    2. "Black Metallic" (UK Edit) – 4:09
    3. "Black Metallic" (KROQ Edit) – 5:30
    4. "Let Me Down Again" – 3:17
  • "Balloon" (February 1992)
  • Fontana CWCD 2 (CD)
    1. "Balloon" (Edit) – 3:56
    2. "Intravenous" – 3:31
    3. "Let Me Down Again" (Live) – 3:06
    4. "Painful Thing" (Live) – 6:21
  • Fontana CW 212 (12" vinyl)
    1. "Balloon" – 4:14
    2. "Intravenous" – 3:31
    3. "Let Me Down Again" (Live) – 3:06
    4. "Painful Thing" (Live) – 6:21
  • Fontana CW 2 (7" vinyl)
    1. "Balloon" (Edit) – 3:56
    2. "Intravenous" – 3:31
  • "I Want to Touch You" (April 1992)
  • Fontana CWCD 3 (CD)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Remix) – 4:35
    2. "Ursa Major Space Station" – 5:04
    3. "Collideoscopic" – 4:07
    4. "Our Friend Joey" – 1:30
  • Fontana CW 312 (12" #1)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Remix) – 4:35
    2. "Dead Girl Friend" – 4:27
    3. "Ursa Major Space Station" – 5:04
    4. "Half Life" – 3:53
  • Fontana CWB 312 (12" #2)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Original Demo) – 5:04
    2. "Black Metallic" (Original Demo) – 4:04
    3. "Wish" (Original Demo) – 3:09
  • Fontana CW 3 (7" vinyl)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Remix) – 4:35
    2. "Ursa Major Space Station" – 5:04
  • "30 Century Man" (December 1992)
  • Fontana CWCD 4 (CD); CW 412 (12" vinyl)
    1. "30 Century Man" (Scott Walker cover) – 5:19
    2. "Free of Mind" – 3:33
    3. "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" (Mission of Burma cover) – 4:07
    4. "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" (Hüsker Dü cover) – 3:31

    • The songs from the "30th Century Man" EP were included on the 2010 bonus track re-edited version of the album "Ferment" as tracks 12 to 15 on the album, and they appear on the new CD edition of the album together with the following tracks: "Balloon" and "Intravenous", being the 16th & the 17th songs on the remastered CD.

    Personnel

  • Rob Dickinson – guitar, vocals
  • Brian Futter – guitar, vocals
  • Dave Hawes – bass
  • Neil Sims – percussion
  • Tim Friese-Greene – producer
  • John Lee – producer, engineer
  • Tim Palmer – mixing
  • Alastair Thain – photography

    • Songs

    1Texture4:21
    2I Want to Touch You4:41
    3Black Metallic7:19

    References

    Ferment (album) Wikipedia
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