Length 46:58 Release date 2002 Label Parlophone | Artist Swing Out Sister Producer Paul Staveley O'Duffy | |
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Released May 2001 (Japan)
March 2002 (Europe and U.S.) Somewhere Deep in the Night
(2001) Where Our Love Grows
(2004) Similar Filth and Dreams, Where Our Love Grows, Shapes and Patterns, Get in Touch with Yourself, The Living Return | ||
Somewhere Deep in the Night is the seventh studio album by the British pop group Swing Out Sister. Produced by longtime collaborator Paul Staveley O'Duffy, the album was first released in Japan in 2001, with a European and American release the following year.
Contents
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Composition
Since the group's second album, 1989's Kaleidoscope World, the group has consisted of Corinne Drewery on lead vocals and multi-instrumentalist Andy Connell. On this album, Connell provides keyboards, synthesizer, guitar and accordion. Other contributing musicians on the album include Tim Cansfield (guitar), Nigel Hitchcock (tenor saxophone), Noel Langley (trumpet and fluegelhorn), and Jody Linscott (percussion). In addition to Connell, other backing vocalists include Beverley Skeete, Dee Lewis, Gina Foster and Stephanie de Sykes.
Critical reception
AllMusic gave Somewhere Deep in the Night four stars out of a possible five, stating that the album "is a very strong album from the duo, packed full of sweeping, melancholy tunes". Reviewer Nick Dedina continues by describing how the album "...uses its sumptuous, melodramatic arrangements to sugar rather bleak songs of confusion and lost love...rather than simply dazzle the listener with retro-schmaltz."
Track listing
- "Through the Sky" (3:55) (Andy Connell/Corinne Drewery/Paul Staveley O'Duffy)
- "Will We Find Love?" (3:55) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Somewhere Deep in the Night" (4:29) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "The Vital Thing" (2:48) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy/Nigel Hitchcock)
- "What Kind of Fool Are You?" (4:04) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Suspended in Time" (1:39) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Alpine Crossing" (3:07) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Fool Tag" (0:27) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Where the Hell Did I Go Wrong?" (4:10) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Non E Vero Ma Ci Credo" (4:08) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Touch Me Now" (3:56) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "The Vital Thing - Take B" (2:27) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy/N. Hitchcock)
- "Where Do I Go?" (4:23) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
- "Now Listen to Me" (3:30) (A. Connell/C. Drewery/P. S. O'Duffy)
Songs
1Through the Sky3:55
2Will We Find Love?3:56
3Somewhere Deep in the Night4:29