Artist.......: Alpha
Album........: The Sky Is Mine
Label........: Don't touch recordings
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-19-2007
str.date.....: Oct-24-2007
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Stargazing 04:14
02. Surely 05:30
03. Brood 05:58
04. Push 03:50
05. Burn Me Again 05:21
06. May 04:08
07. Given Time 03:51
08. For the Wages 06:05
09. Home 04:13
10. Stumbled 05:24
11. Silver Bullet 04:33
12. A Little Poison 10:54
Runtime 64:01 min
Size 80,7 MB
Release Notes:
THE SKY IS MINE (DON'T TOUCH RECORDINGS) cat
number: DOTOCD11 This is Alpha's eighth album
(including last year's compilation of
collaborations and remixes, 'Without Some Help')
but is their first 'vocal' album since 2003's
'Stargazing' and is released on their own inprint
Don't Touch Recordings. Whereas previous albums
featured a number of vocal collaborations, this
time it is only long-term member Wendy Stubbs
singing on The Sky Is Mine. And just as their debut
'Come From Heaven' (released on Massive Attack's
Melankolic label) was widely acknowledged as a
classic collection of trembling torch songs, so
this album develops that strand dramatically
further. Whilst still deploying their skills for
gentle experimentation, Alpha have tunnelled their
sound out to a bolder, brassier landscape with
Wendy often belting out her melancholic choruses
like one of her heroes, Shirley Bassey. When Wendy
first started working with Alpha they already had a
lot of musical influences in common such as Scott
Walker, Michel Legrand and Burt Bacharach. They
also shared a love of simple love songs, mixing and
merging different genres with bittersweet melodies
thrown around by giddy synths and melodramatic
strings. Over the years Alpha have worked with many
varied artists (Jarvis, Acid Casuals, Blueneck,
Coldplay to name a few) and are known for their
inventive and emotional production. Last year Corin
Dingley mixed the James Roberts album (a NME 9/10
on release) and more recently finished work on the
superb debut lp by The Heavy who were promptly
signed to Ninja Tune and whose album is released in
the Autumn. The Sky Is Mine is released in Europe
on September 17th. "Alpha are a Bristol outfit
responsible for two of the most remarkable songs of
the 90s in 'Wise' and 'Sometime Later', better than
anything Portishead, Tricky or Massive Attack ever
released - track them down right now, they're pure
molten beauty" -Paul Lester, The Guardian Unlimited
June 2007