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Released
  
October 8, 2001

Love Is Here (2001)
  
Silence Is Easy (2003)

Release date
  
8 October 2001

Length
  
57:19

Artist
  
Starsailor

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

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Producer
  
Mark Aubrey Steve Osborne Starsailor

Genres
  
Indie rock, Post-Britpop, Indie pop, Piano rock

Similar
  
On the Outside, Silence Is Easy, All the Plans, Greatest Hits: Good Souls, Starsailor

Starsailor love is here full album


Love Is Here is the debut studio album by indie rock band Starsailor, released on 8 October 2001. In 2002, Love Is Here was certified as platinum in the UK.

Contents

Starsailor love is here


Reception

Upon its release, Love Is Here received some critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 72, based on 19 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Q listed Love Is Here as one of the best 50 albums of 2001, while NME rated it as the fifth best album of the year.

Track listing

  1. "Tie Up My Hands" – 5:46
  2. "Poor Misguided Fool" – 3:51
  3. "Alcoholic" – 2:56
  4. "Lullaby" – 4:13
  5. "Way to Fall" – 4:30
  6. "Fever" – 4:03
  7. "She Just Wept" – 4:12
  8. "Talk Her Down" – 4:11
  9. "Love Is Here" – 4:41
  10. "Good Souls" – 4:53
  11. "Coming Down" – 14:30 (song ends at 3:07)

The album also includes a hidden track at 13:35 of the track "Coming Down", consisting of under a minute of humming from the band members. The humming is an alternate take of background accompaniment for the song "Coming Down.

Personnel

  • Ben Byrne – drums
  • James "Stel" Stelfox – bass guitar
  • James Walsh – vocals, guitar
  • Barry Westhead – keyboards
  • The song "Way to Fall" is played during the ending credits of the 2004 video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Director Hideo Kojima hand-picked the song for the game's soundtrack, apparently having discovered the group by accident while looking for another group.
  • Songs

    1Tie Up My Hands5:46
    2Poor Misguided Fool3:52
    3Alcoholic2:56

    References

    Love Is Here Wikipedia