Albion (Ginger Wildheart album)

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Albion
Albion (Ginger Wildheart album).jpg
Studio album by
Ginger Wildheart
ReleasedDecember 23, 2013
VenuePen Y Lan studios, Meifod
Genre Rock
Label Cargo / Round Records
Producer Kevin Vanbergen
Ginger Wildheart chronology
555%
(2012)		Albion
(2013)		Year of the Fanclub
(2015)
Alternative cover
Ginger Albion Retail.jpg
Cover used for the commercial release of the album

Albion is the fifth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Ginger Wildheart, frontman of rock band The Wildhearts. [1] Albion was first released via the PledgeMusic platform as a 15-track LP. It came following the success of Ginger's 2012 album 555% . [2]

Contents

A commercial ten-track version was later released via Cargo Records [3] and Round Records. [4] The album, which was originally going to be titled Practical Musician, was recorded in 2013, and a blog of the album sessions was published online. [5]

Critical reception

Classic Rock described Albion as "spinetingling" and gave it four out of five stars. [6] Drowned in Sound gave the album 7 out of 10 stars, [7] calling it "another step on Ginger’s loveably tumultuous, often volatile, refreshingly bittersweet and often transcendental musical journey."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ginger, except where noted

Pledge edition
No.TitleLength
1."Drive"4:52
2."Cambria"4:25
3."The Road to Applecross"3:46
4."The Order of the Dog" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)6:23
5."Chill Motherfucker, Chill"4:18
6."Burn This City Down" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)4:27
7."Body Parts"2:29
8."The Beat Goes On (Caledonia)"4:16
9."After All You Said About Cowboys"3:46
10."Grow a Pair"4:22
11."I Need You"5:17
12."Capital Anxiety"1:58
13."Into This"4:07
14."Creepers" (Ginger, Ian Hardwick)6:35
15."Albion" (Ginger, Jon Poole, Kevin Vanbergen, Victoria Liedtke)10:26
Total length:1:11:29

Commercial version

No.TitleLength
1."Drive"4:52
2."Cambria"4:25
3."Grow a Pair"4:22
4."Burn This City Down" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)4:27
5."The Order of the Dog" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)6:23
6."Body Parts"2:29
7."The Beat Goes On (Caledonia)"4:16
8."After All You Said About Cowboys"3:46
9."Creepers" (Ginger, Ian Hardwick)6:35
10."Albion" (Ginger, Jon Poole, Kevin Vanbergen, Victoria Liedtke)10:26
Total length:52:02

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Ginger Wildheart* - Albion". Discogs. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "How Ginger Wildheart's shoestring album beat Rihanna". Evening Standard. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ginger Wildheart 'Albion'". Cargo Records UK. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "GINGER WILDHEART New Album 'Albion' Released 31st March 2014 • WithGuitars". WithGuitars. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Practical Musician | Ginger Wildheart | Page 7" . Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  6. ↑ April 2014, Polly Glass 22. "Ginger Wildheart: Albion". Classic Rock Magazine. Retrieved 13 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "Album Review: Ginger Wildheart - Albion". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
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