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The Beautiful Lie

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Released
  
5 June 2006

Length
  
54:24

Genre
  
British rock

Label
  
Heavenly Records

Recorded
  
Toerag Studios, Maplewood Studios, Funny Bunny Studios, Decibel Studios

Producer
  
Jari Haapalainen, Ed Harcourt

The Beautiful Lie is the fourth album by British singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt, released in 2006. Ed's wife, Gita Harcourt, plays violin throughout the album and sings vocals on "Braille," and The Magic Numbers guest as backing vocalists on "Revolution in the Heart." Ed was dropped by Astralwerks Records/EMI in the US, the label which released his previous three albums. The album finally got a US release via Dovecote Records on June 3, 2008, nearly 2 years after its original release.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Whirlwind in D Minor" – 3:57
  2. "Visit from the Dead Dog" – 3:01
  3. "You Only Call Me When You're Drunk" – 4:27
  4. "The Last Cigarette" – 3:30
  5. "Shadowboxing" – 3:20
  6. "Late Night Partner" – 4:36
  7. "Revolution in the Heart" – 4:20
  8. "Until Tomorrow Then" – 3:56
  9. "Scatterbraine" – 2:46
  10. "Rain on the Pretty Ones" – 4:18
  11. "The Pristine Claw" – 3:19
  12. "I Am the Drug" – 3:31
  13. "Braille" – 5:31
  14. "Good Friends Are Hard to Find" – 3:52
UK iTunes-only bonus track
  1. "Little Miss Secretive" – 3:24

Singles

  • "Visit from the Dead Dog" (29 May 2006)
  • CD b/w: "The Distance Between"
  • 7" vinyl #1 b/w: "Minotaur"
  • Amber-colored 7" vinyl #2 b/w: "Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads"
  • "Revolution in the Heart" (23 October 2006)
  • Digital download only. B-side: "Surreal Killer"
  • "Until Tomorrow Then" (19 August 2008)
  • Music video single only.

    • Personnel

    1. "Whirlwind in D Minor"
    2. Ed Harcourt - Piano, Spanish guitar, electric guitar, bass, music box, vocals
    3. B.J. Cole - Pedal steel
    4. Dimitri Tikovoi - Drums
    5. "Visit from the Dead Dog"
    6. Ed Harcourt - Piano, bass, synth strings, Hammond organ, vocals
    7. Graham Coxon - Guitar
    8. Jari Haapalainen - Drums
    9. Hadrian Garrard - Trumpet
    10. Leo Abrahams - Guitar
    11. "You Only Call Me When You're Drunk"
    12. Ed Harcourt - Piano, bass, bells, vocals
    13. Jari Haapalainen - Drums
    14. Hadrian Garrard - Trumpet
    15. Leo Abrahams - Guitar
    16. Fiona Brice - String arrangement
    17. Violin - Gillon Cameron, Sally Jackson, Ellie Stanford, Gita Harcourt, Jess Murphy, Rosie Langley
    18. Viola - Amy Stanford, Louise Hogan
    19. Cello - Laura Anstee, Jonny Byers
    20. "The Last Cigarette"
    21. Ed Harcourt - Guitar, vocals
    22. Gita Harcourt - Violin
    23. "Shadowboxing"
    24. Ed Harcourt - Guitar, bass, organ, vocals
    25. Jari Haapalainen - Drums, shaker
    26. "Late Night Partner"
    27. Ed Harcourt - Piano, vocals
    28. Johan Berthling - String arrangement
    29. Violin - Lars Warnstad, George Kentros, Anna Rodell, Lisa Rydell
    30. Cello - Anna Wallgren, Leo Svensson
    31. "Revolution in the Heart"
    32. Ed Harcourt - Piano, bass, casiotone, SK1, vocals
    33. Jeremy Stacey - Drums
    34. Jari Haapalainen - Drums
    35. Michele Stodart - Backing vocals
    36. Romeo Stodart - Backing vocals
    37. Sean Gannon - Backing vocals
    38. Angela Gannon - Backing vocals
    39. Leo Abrahams - Guitars
    40. "Until Tomorrow Then"
    41. Ed Harcourt - Optigan, piano, vocals
    42. Jari Haapalainen - Drums
    43. Gita Harcourt - Backing vocals
    44. Hadrian Garrard - Trumpet
    45. "Scatterbraine"
    46. Ed Harcourt - Piano, bass, organ, vocals
    47. Jari Haapalainen - Drums
    48. Johan Berthling - String arrangement
    49. Violin - Lars Warnstad, George Kentros, Anna Rodell, Lisa Rydell
    50. Cello - Anna Wallgren, Leo Svensson
    51. "Rain on the Pretty Ones"
    52. Ed Harcourt - Piano, vocals
    53. Leo Abrahams - Guitar
    54. Ellekari Larsson - Backing Vocals
    55. Ane Brun - Backing Vocals
    56. Jenny Wilson - Backing Vocals
    57. Nina Kinert - Backing Vocals
    58. Anja Bigrell - Backing Vocals
    59. Amy Langley - String arrangement
    60. Gita Harcourt - String arrangement
    61. Violin - Gillon Cameron, Sally Jackson, Ellie Stanford, Gita Harcourt, Jess Murphy, Rosie Langley
    62. Viola - Amy Stanford, Louise Hogan
    63. Cello - Laura Anstee, Jonny Byers
    64. "The Pristine Claw"
    65. Ed Harcourt - Guitar, vocals
    66. Leo Abrahams - Guitar
    67. Johan Berthling - Woodwind arrangement
    68. Thomas Bodin - Oboe
    69. "I Am the Drug"
    70. Ed Harcourt - Piano, bass, vocals
    71. Jari Haapalainen - Drums
    72. Leo Abrahams - Guitars
    73. Fiona Brice - String arrangement
    74. Violin - Gillon Cameron, Sally Jackson, Ellie Stanford, Gita Harcourt, Jess Murphy, Rosie Langley
    75. Viola - Amy Stanford, Louise Hogan
    76. Cello - Laura Anstee, Jonny Byers
    77. "Braille"
    78. Ed Harcourt - Guitar, piano, vocals
    79. Gita Harcourt - Vocals
    80. Leo Abrahams - Baritone guitar, guitar treatments
    81. Jari Haapalainen - Percussion
    82. "Good Friends Are Hard to Find"
    83. Ed Harcourt - Piano, vocals
    84. Hadrian Garrard - Trumpet
    85. Leo Abrahams - String arrangement
    86. Violin - Gillon Cameron, Sally Jackson, Ellie Stanford, Gita Harcourt, Jess Murphy, Rosie Langley
    87. Viola - Amy Stanford, Louise Hogan
    88. Cello - Laura Anstee, Jonny Byers

    References

    The Beautiful Lie Wikipedia
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