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Hide and Seek (Janet Devlin album)

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Recorded
  
2012–13

Label
  
PledgeMusic

Artist
  
Janet Devlin

Genre
  
Pop music

Length
  
40:40

Hide & Seek (2013)
  
Nothing Lost (2013)

Release date
  
1 July 2013

Released
  
1 July 2013 (2013-07-01)

Producer
  
Eliot Kennedy Jim Jayawardena

Hide & Seek is the debut studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Janet Devlin. It received a limited release via PledgeMusic on 1 July 2013. It received a general release on 9 June 2014 under the new title Running with Scissors. It will include 4 new original songs as well as reworked versions of some of the songs from 'Hide and Seek'.

Contents

Background and composition

Following her participation in the eighth series of the British X Factor and the X Factor Tour, Devlin started working on her debut studio album.

All of the songs were written in collaboration by Devlin and songwriters including the critically acclaimed Newton Faulkner, Eliot Kennedy and Jack Savoretti.

The limited release of the album via Pledge Music included a bonus 4 track acoustic EP, "Nothing Lost", which was released on 14 August 2013. This EP had additional tracks co-written with Savoretti and Joe Janiak included as well as a cover of, her X Factor audition song, Your Song by Elton John.

A version of "Delicate" originally included on the EP "Nothing Lost" is set to be added to the final track listing for the general release of "Hide & Seek".

Singles

  • "Wonderful" was released in November 2013 as the album's lead single. The song peaked at No.25 on the UK Indie Chart and at No.3 on the Indie Breakers Chart. Its music video was released on November 1, 2013.

    • Limited release track listing

  • Sources:

    • Songs

    1Wonderful3:14
    2Creatures of the Night2:58
    3Working for the Man3:04

    References

    Hide & Seek (Janet Devlin album) Wikipedia
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