Ladyhawke (Album)

Occupation

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Production

• Pascal Gabriel
• Kids Glove
• Jim Eliot
• Paul Harris
• Michael Di
• Greg Kurstin

Ladyhawke 's self-titled debut album of the New Zealand synth-pop singer Lady Hawke. It was published by Modular Recordings on 20 September 2008. Five singles were released, including the hit My Delirium.

• 8.1 placements

• 9.1 Music
• 9.2 production
• 9.3 Visual

Background information

The recordings began in the fall of 2007. Ladyhawke worked with various producers, including with Pascal Gabriel, Kids Glove, Jim Eliot, Paul Harris, Michael Di and Greg Kurstin. The musical style is in the range electro, New Wave and Synthpop.

Critics votes

The reviews of Ladyhawke were largely positive. Metacritic calculated an average score of 70%. Ben Preece, reviewer at Time Off, gave the album a positive rating and raised Brown's 1980s influences out, especially the of her idols, Cyndi Lauper and Stevie Nicks. However, Brown would still not " retro " but very " modern, fresh, to the present time matching and original " (modern, fresh, up-to -the-minute and completely Call original) sound.

Even Simon Price of The Independent praised the work: "Their singles get the sound of the synthesizer -based cocaine AOR back in the mood of Stevie Nicks and Belinda Carlisle. ( ... Her singles " Back of the Van " and " Paris Is Burning" ... reprise the sound of synth -based cocaine AOR in a Stevie Nicks / Belinda Carlisle vein. ) "

Dan Cairns, the reviewer of The Sunday Times, the album was also a positive rating.

Jon O'Brien of Allmusic commented: "... it sounds fresh, thanks to clever production and Browns fiery and lively singing " ( ... it still Manages to sound fresh thanks to its clever production and Brown 's fiery and vibrant vocals. ).

Judge Rogers of The Guardian said: " Magic is the best title with which you can open an album, especially the songs Dusk Till Dwan, My Delirium and Another Runaway are well done and an example of good pop and Synthpopmusik " ​​.

Elvissia Williams of BBC Music likened the album with the comedy The Breakfast Club of 1985: " As John Hughes classic film, brings her album, love innocent young beautiful girl over, so the album and the songs were best describe the whole album is beautiful and makes for a good mood, this album reaches the new Wave music of the 80s into a new generation. "

Mark Beaumont of NME wrote: " Their song with the synth - pop songs reminiscent of the best time of Bananarama, to Rio and watermen, but the whole album makes it the first true 1980s synthpop album since ABC's The Lexicon of Love ".

Peter Robinson of The Observer wrote "The album captures someone at the first listen, I had while listening to the feeling I go with her on a red motorcycle through the desert ."

Emily Tartan Ella from PopMatters criticized the album: "This album is magical, fabulous and beautiful, but these aspects will reject the large part of the mass, everything is still as positive as has been said, but seen commercially the album is hardly considered and rejected".

Commercial success

Ladyhawke debuted in the week ending September 29, 2008 at number 16 of the Australian album charts and fell into the following week at No. 28 The album verbrache 25 weeks in the album charts and was certified gold in Australia, for more than 35,000 units sold.

In New Zealand, the album debuted on September 29, 2008 at number 15 on the album charts and reached a year later for a week on October 19, 2009 1st place in their homeland. It spent over a year on the charts and was awarded on December 20, 2009 in New Zealand with platinum, for over 15,000 units sold.

In the United Kingdom, the album debuted on 28 September 2008 to 47th place in the UK album charts, with over 3,500 units sold in the first week. then the album fell off the charts and made 4 January 2009 re-entry at number 59, the single releases My Delirium and Paris Is Burning. On 3 May 2009 the album reached number 16 with his high ranking in the UK album charts. Overall, the album spent 33 weeks in the UK album charts and was on 17 April 2009 by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI ) certified Gold for over 100,000 units sold.

Single releases

• Back of the Van - Their debut single Back of the Van, was released in May 2008.

• Paris Is Burning - The second single from the album was Paris Is Burning, was published on 30 June 2008. It is their second - most successful single of their career ( behind My Delirium ); In New Zealand, the single debuted at number 40 and was only a week on the charts. In Australia, the single debuted at number 67 and reached after several weeks at No. 32 in the UK Singles Chart, the single debuted at # 61 and jumped in the next week at No. 39, after the song dropped after only two weeks off the charts.

• Dusk Till Dawn - The third single Dusk Till Dawn was decoupled, which was published on 15 September 2008. released on 15 September 2008. It debuted at number 78 on the UK Singles Chart and was only a week in the British charts.

• My Delirium - The fourth single from the album My Delirium was released on 8 December 2008. The single reached number 33 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, number 13 in Australia and number 8 in the charts. Until today, it is their most successful single.

• Paris is Burning ( re-release ) - The re-release of 2 March 2009 saw the single at number 47 on the British charts.

• Back of the Van ( re-release ) - On May 19, 2009 Back of the Van re-released in the UK as the sixth single.

• Magic - Magic was sent on 10 June 2009 at the radio stations in Australia and got heavy airplay. On 28 September 2009 Magic was released in the United Könbigreich as the seventh and final single from the album.

Cover illustration

The album cover is a water -color image of the originated from Sydney Künnstlerin Sarah Larnach, it shows Ladyhawke lightly dressed. She plays with the NES. On the cover image also seen a Super NES, Mega Drive and a Microkorg synthesizer, and a NES Zapper.

Title list

Standard Edition

CD 2 (Deluxe Edition): Dream On

Publication

Charts

Placements

Contributors

The following persons contributed to the making of the album Ladyhawke.

Music

• Vocals: Ladyhawke
• Backing vocals: Hannah Robinson, Phillipa " Pip " Brown
• Drums: Jim Eliot, Phillipa " Pip " Brown, Pascal Gabriel, Paul Harris, Peter Huntington, Roy Kerr, Leo Taylor
• Guitar: Pascal Gabriel, Phillipa " Pip " Brown, Alex Gray

• Bass: Phillipa " Pip " Brown, Michael Di Francesco, Anu Pillai
• Electric Guitar: Phillipa " Pip " Brown,
• Keyboard: Phillipa " Pip " Brown, Jim Elliot, Pascal Gabriel, Alex Gray, Paul Harris, Greg Kurstin, Anu Pillai
• Piano, Synthesizer: Phillipa " Pip " Brown, Michael Di Francesco, Pascal Gabriel
• Percussion: Jim Elliot, Pascal Gabriel

Production

• Executive producers: Phillipa Brown
• Production: Phillipa Brown, Pascal Gabriel, Kids Glove, Jim Eliot, Paul Harris, Michael Di Francesco, Greg Kurstin
• Mix: Tom Elmhirst, Pascal Gabriel, Tony Hoffer
• Engineering: Michael Di Francesco, Jim Eliot, Antonio Feola, Pascal Gabriel, Kid Gloves, Paul Harris

• Mastering: Jason Gossman, Dan Parry
• A & R:
• Marketing:

Visual

• Artwork, Photographs: Sarah Larnach
• Art Direction: Sarah Larnach & Phillipa Brown
• Design: An Art Service