Fires

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Fires
Studio album by Nerina Pallot

Publication
(s)

2005/2006

Label (s) Idaho Records / 14th Floor Records

Format (s)

Audio CD , download

Genre (s)

Folk rock  / pop

Title (number)

11

running time

46:55

occupation
  • Guitar: Doyle Bramhall II
  • Bass : Sebastian Steinber

production

  • Howard Willing
  • Eric Rosse
  • Nerina Pallot
  • Wendy Melvoin

Studio (s)

  • Los Angeles :
    • Sage and Sound
    • Xstacy South
    • Sunset sound
    • Oceanway
  • London :
    • RAK
    • Eastcote
    • The Glue Hotel
    • Pallot's house
chronology
Dear Frustrated Superstar
(2001) 		Fires The Graduate
(2009)
source rating
laut.de
The Sun
The Music Box
The Sunday Times
The Guardian
Plattentests.de

Fires is the second music album by the British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot .

background

After Pallot's album Dear Frustrated Superstar flopped and she was released from her contract by Universal , Pallot left the music industry and studied English literature. However, the company Chrysalis Records helped her and supported her musical endeavors. The second album was recorded and produced independently by various studios in London and Los Angeles. Howard Willing, Eric Rosse, Wendy Melvoin (also guitarist on the album) and Nerina Pallot herself were responsible for the production . With the help of Chrysalis Records, Fires was released on April 4, 2005 on her own music label Idaho Records . After the album was a small success through marketing on iTunes and Myspace (reportedly 11,000 copies were sold on MySpace), she signed with 14th Floor Records (a Warner subsidiary). They published a re-issue of the album on April 24, 2006.

Music genre

It is assigned to the genres of folk rock and pop . Nerina Pallot moves stylistically between songwriter music and its protest songs of the 1960s / 1970s in the style of Carole King , Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon , as well as power pop and rock music . The songs are mostly carried by an instrument, the guitar or the piano, and are strongly vocal-oriented. Occasionally, however, female pop / rock songs with drums can also be heard.

List of titles

All songs were composed by Pallot himself. The songs in bold indicate the singles that have been released. The responsible producers are listed after the dash:

  1. Everybody's Gone to War (3:54) - Howard Willing
  2. Halfway Home (4:26) - Willing
  3. Damascus (4:42) - Wendy Melvoin
  4. Idaho (4:28) - Willing
  5. Learning to Breathe (a) (4:09) - Eric Rosse
  6. Mr. King (4:22) - Willing
  7. Geek Love (4:00) - Willing
  8. Sophia (3:40) - Nerina Pallot
  9. All Good People (a) (4:16) - Willing
  10. Heart Attack (3:25) - Eric Rosse, Willing
  11. Nickindia (5:28) - Pallot
(a)In the re-issue version, Learning to Breathe changed places with All Good People , which means, for example, All Good People is in position 5 instead of 9 in the new edition.

success

With over one hundred thousand units sold, the album is Pallot's most successful album and, according to commercial criteria, trumps her debut album Dear Frustrated Superstar by about ten times.

album

year title Chart positions Worldwide
sales 		annotation
UK
2005 Fires 21 (b) 110,000 (c) First release: April 4, 2005 (Idaho Records)
Re-issue: April 24, 2006 (14th Floor Records)
(b)The original version did not reach a chart position, but reached 10th place on the iTunes UK charts.
(c) The original version was sold over 11,000 times via MySpace alone.
Chart history of the Official British Top 75 Album Charts
week 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23 24 25th 26th 27 Σ
position 41 47 44 27 26th 21st 27 49 53 59 61 75 52 54 50 71 16

Singles

The four singles Damascus , All Good People , Everybody's Gone to War and Sophia have been released from the album so far . Everybody's Gone to War was published twice, from the original version as an iTunes download and from the re-issue version as a full single.

year title Chart positions annotation
CH UK AU NL
2005 Damascus
Fires 		- (d) First published: June 6, 2005
Music video: Tim Devine
2005 All good people
fires 		- First release: September 5th, 2005
Music video: -
2006 Everybody's Gone to War
Fires (Re-Issue) 		98 14th 41 48 First published: May 22nd, 2006
Music video: Marc Klasfeld
2006 Sophia
Fires (Re-Issue) 		32 First published: October 2nd, 2006
Music video: John Hillcoat
2007 Learning to Breathe
Fires (Re-Issue) 		First published: January 8, 2007
Music video: Lee Lennox
Legend: "-" = no chart entry
(d) Damascus reached a 180th place in the middle of the week, but didn't manage to claim a place in the extended UK charts by the end of the week.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Painful emotional skíno. Review by Alexander Cordas on laut.de
  2. ↑ a b The Sun : Interview & album review (English)
  3. ↑ a b The Music Box: Album Review (English), July 12, 2006
  4. ↑ a b The Sunday Times : Album Review , April 9, 2005
  5. ↑ a b The Guardian : Album review (English), April 8, 2005
  6. ↑ a b Plattentests.de : album review
  7. ↑ a b Jersey.com: Nerina Pallot ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), as of January 2, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jersey.com
  8. ↑ a b The Guardian: Behind the music: How to survive being dropped (English), September 10, 2009, as of January 2, 2010
  9. ↑ a b Virgin Media: Nerina Pallot - Fires review ( Memento of August 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) May 17, 2008 (English)
  10. ↑ nerinapallot.com: Learning To Breathe the new single is coming soon ( Memento of November 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English) (as of December 5, 2006)