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Released
  
15 October 2001

Loss (2001)
  
Us (2003)

Label
  
Blanco y Negro Records

Producer
  
Colin MacIntyre

Release date
  
22 October 2001

Genre
  
Indie pop

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Recorded
  
February–April 2001 at Gravity Studios, Glasgow

Artists
  
Mull Historical Society, Colin MacIntyre

Similar
  
This Is Hope, Us, The Water

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Loss is the debut album of Scottish indie pop band Mull Historical Society. It includes the singles "Barcode Bypass", "I Tried", "Animal Cannabus" and "Watching Xanadu". The album reached number 43 in the UK album chart. It was inspired by the sudden death of his father in 1999 and his upbringing on the Isle of Mull. It contains samples from a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry and the waves on Calgary Bay in Mull. "Barcode Bypass" is about a small shopkeeper threatened by the supermarkets, and "Watching Xanadu" is about watching the film Xanadu.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Colin MacIntyre.

  • "Loss" is a hidden unlisted track at the end of the album - "Paper Houses" ends at 5:18, and "Loss" begins after a 30-second gap.

    • The CD version of the album was released as an enhanced CD-ROM containing footage of Colin MacIntyre performing live acoustic versions of the songs "Barcode Bypass" and "I Tried".

    Personnel

  • Colin MacIntyre - all vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, programming, tapes, baritone guitar on "Instead", whistling on "Instead"
  • Emma Barlow - additional vocals on "Strangeways Inside"
  • Phil Cunningham - accordion on "Only I"
  • Michael Ghia - cello on "Instead"
  • Brian MacNeil - additional keyboards on "Watching Xanadu", "Only I", "Paper Houses"
  • Alan Malloy - bass guitar on "I Tried", "Barcode Bypass", "Paper Houses"
  • Debbie Martin - flute on "Instead", "Mull Historical Society"
  • Stewart Nisbet - pedal steel guitar on "Only I"
  • Euan Sinclair - drums on "Barcode Bypass", "Mull Historical Society"
  • Tony Soave - drums and percussion on all tracks except "Barcode Bypass"
  • Iain Stewart - additional keyboards on "I Tried", "Barcode Bypass", "Strangeways Inside", "Mull Historical Society"
  • Graham Weir - trombone on "Only I", "Mull Historical Society"
  • Neil Weir - trumpet on "Only I", "Mull Historical Society"
  • David Lee, Graham McCusker, Cameron Dick - choirboys on "Instead"

    • Reception

    Q listed Loss as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.

    Songs

    1Public Service Announcer4:22
    2Watching Xanadu4:29
    3Instead5:43

    References

    Loss (Mull Historical Society album) Wikipedia
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