Crimson / Red
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| Studio album by Prefab Sprout | ||||
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Publication |
October 7, 2013 |
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admission |
October – December 2012 |
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| Label (s) | Icebreaker Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP, download |
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Sophisticated Pop / Pop |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
40 min 46 s |
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Calum Malcolm |
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Studio (s) |
Andromeda Heights Studio ( Durham ) |
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Crimson / Red (English: "Karmesin / Rot") is the ninth studio album by the British formation Prefab Sprout , which the founder and songwriter Paddy McAloon recorded and recorded in his own studio in autumn 2012 and together with his long-time sound engineer Calum Malcolm has produced.
McAloon did not write the ten tracks specifically for this album, but they were created between 1997 and 2010. McAloon selected them from his archive after he had missed the deadline for new song material agreed with the record company Icebreaker Records for health reasons. Although McAloon had not announced the release, the ten tracks were accidentally distributed on the Internet in June 2013 by the record company and named "The Devil Came A-Calling" as the album title.
The album title "Crimson / Red" is a text passage from the song "Adolescence". According to a statement by McAloon in an interview with BBC Radio 6 Music , the title refers to the Latvian-American painter Mark Rothko , who is assigned to Abstract Expressionism and is considered a pioneer of color field painting .
Track list
- The Best Jewel Thief In The World (3'50 ")
- List Of Impossible Things (3'42 ")
- Adolescence (4'27 ")
- Grief Built The Taj Mahal (3'28 ")
- Devil Came A-Calling (3'41 ")
- Billy (4'37 ")
- The Dreamer (6'00 ")
- The Songs Of Danny Galway (3'48 ")
- The Old Magician (2'51 ")
- Mysterious (4'22 ")
Trivia
- The compact disc intended for the European market (barcode: 5060211501623) is colored black throughout and the design is based on a record .
Web links
- Discogs: Prefab Sprout - Crimson / Red. Retrieved May 10, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Waechter, Süddeutsche Zeitung: SZ-Discothek - Interview with Paddy McAloon: "Basically I want to be left alone". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; accessed on May 11, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Jürgen Ziemer, Die Zeit: Professor Pop. Retrieved May 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Christoph Dallach, Spiegel Online: Prefab Sprout boss Paddy McAloon: "Call me compulsively". Retrieved May 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Michael Pilz, Die Welt: From the garden to the studio - Prefab Sprout are back. Retrieved May 10, 2014 .
