Fires (Nerina Pallot album)

Occupation

  • Vocal / Piano / Guitar / Keyboards: Nerina Pallot
  • Drums: Jim Keltner
  • Guitar: Wendy Melvoin
  • Guitar / Keyboards: Jon Brion
  • Guitar: Lyle Workman
  • Guitar: Doyle Bramhall II
  • Hammond organ / Fender Rhodes: Roger Manning Jr.
  • Bass: Sebastian Steinber

Production

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

Studios

  • Los Angeles: Sage and Sound
  • Xstacy South
  • Sunset sound
  • Oceanway
  • RAK
  • Eastcote
  • The Glue Hotel
  • Pallots House

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

Background

After Pallots album Dear Frustrated Superstar flopped and she was released from her contract by Universal, Pallot first left the music industry and studied English literature. However, it attacked the company Chrysalis Records under the arms and supported their musical efforts. The second album was recorded in-house various studios in London and Los Angeles and produced. For the production responsible Howard Willing, Eric Rosse, Wendy Melvoin recorded (also guitarist on the album ) and Nerina Pallot itself with the help of Chrysalis Records Fires appeared on 4 April 2005 on their own record label, Idaho Records appeared. After the album by marketing via iTunes and MySpace a small success was (allegedly 11,000 copies were sold on MySpace ), she signed with 14th Floor Records ( a Warner subsidiary ). These published on 24 April 2006, a re-issue of the album.

Music style

It is attributed to the genres of folk rock and pop. Nerina Pallot moves stylistically between the songwriter and music whose protest songs of the 1960er/1970er in the style of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon, as well as power pop and rock music. The songs are mostly worn by an instrument, the guitar or the piano, and singing are strongly oriented. Occasionally, however, also Female-Pop/Rock-Lieder can be heard with the drums.

Track Listings

All songs were composed by Pallot itself. The bold songs characterize the coupled singles.

[ a] ↑ Behind the indent their producers are listed. [b ] ↑ In the re-issue version of Learning to Breathe moved with All Good People of the square, which, for example, All Good People in the new edition to position 5 instead of 9 stands.

Success

The album, with over one hundred thousand units sold Pallots successful album and trumps so on a commercial basis, their debut album Dear Frustrated Superstar patients by approximately tenfold.

Album

( b ) The original version was sold only via MySpace over 11,000 times.

Singles

The four singles Damascus, All Good People, Everybody 's Gone to War and Sophia have been extracted from the album. Everybody 's Gone to War was published this two times, from the original version as an iTunes download and from the re-issue version as full-fledged single.

( a) Damascus reached mid-week a 180th place, but managed to end not a placement in the extended UK charts to claim for themselves.

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