All Souls Hill

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All Souls Hill
The Waterboys - All Souls Hill.jpg
Studio album by
The Waterboys
Released6 April 2022 (2022-04-06)
Studio
  • The Barn, Sussex
  • The Bunker, Welwyn
  • Crow's Nest, Thompson's Station, Tennessee, US
  • Goyt Valley Sound
  • Miracle Studios
  • Nabby Road Studio, Liverpool, England, UK
  • Ocean Soul Studios
  • Puck Towers
  • Rustic Souls
  • Verlimont Studios, Hampstead, England, UK
  • Wilbury Road Studios
Genre folk rock
Length40:50
LanguageEnglish
Label Cooking Vinyl
Producer
The Waterboys chronology
Good Luck, Seeker
(2020)		All Souls Hill
(2022)		 Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
(2025)

"In the old days, when I'd be in recording studios, I'd be trying to be at play, but there'd be time pressures, or I'd be working with an engineer, and I'd have to filter everything through their musical consciousness. But when I'm working on my own in my own studio, I'm at play. It's great... [I collaborated with co-producer Simon Dine] strictly by correspondence. He would send me a zip file of twenty one-minute-long instrumentals, and I'd play them, and maybe two of them would suggest melodies or an idea to me, and I'd turn them into a song. Technology allows us to work like that."

Contents

—Mike Scott on recording All Souls Hill [1]

All Souls Hill is the fifteenth studio album by British folk rock group The Waterboys, released by Cooking Vinyl on 6 April 2022. It has received positive reviews from critics.

Reception

At AnyDecentMusic?, editors scored this album a 6.5 out of 10, aggregating five reviews. [2] According to the review aggregator Metacritic , All Souls Hill received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 from seven critic scores. [3]

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Mark Deming writing that "this is fun, thoughtful, expressive music from a man whose inspiration has yet to run dry". [4] In American Songwriter , Hal Horowitz scored All Souls Hill 3 out of 5 stars, praising the lyrics and vocals: "[Mike Scott] has plenty to say and isn't shy about spewing out a constant stream of verses to make his points: all in his distinctive Scottish brogue and with a propulsive attitude leaving subtlety for others". [5] Writing for The Arts Desk , Joe Muggs rated this work 3 out of 5 stars, characterizing it a "mixed success" criticizing the production choices, but praising Mike Scott's songwriting. [6] Classic Rock 's Chris Roberts scored this album 4 out of 5 stars, stating that it "feels like a reset, a detour probing new directions, as befits an album written and produced mostly in collaboration with Simon Dine, who recharged Paul Weller's career". [7] In Glide Magazine , Jim Hynes called this "a bit of both sonic worlds" that mixes the band's classic sound with their hip hop and electronic music trio of studio albums released before this. [8] In Hot Press , Lucy O'Toole wrote that this music finds the group "leaping between genres and ideas as if journeying through a fever dream". [9]

Track listing

All songs written by Simon Dine and Mike Scott, except where noted.

  1. "All Souls Hill" – 2:54
  2. "The Liar" – 3:28
  3. "The Southern Moon" – 4:23
  4. "Blackberry Girl" – 2:36
  5. "Hollywood Blues" (James Hallawell, Aongus Ralston, Ralph Salmins, and Scott) – 5:26
  6. "In My Dreams" – 3:19
  7. "Once Were Brothers" (Robbie Robertson) – 5:30
  8. "Here We Go Again" – 4:02
  9. "Passing Through" (Dick Blakeslee) – 9:16

Bonus edition tracks

  1. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (Jagger–Richards) – 3:52
  2. "Painting America White" (Scott) – 2:36
  3. "Glastonbury Fayre" (Scott) – 4:33
  4. "The Liar" (Mashup) – 3:28
  5. "Blackberry Girl" (Mashup) – 2:16
  6. "In My Dreams" (Mashup) – 3:05
  7. "Once Were Brothers" (Mashup) (Robertson) – 5:34

Personnel

Chart performance

All Souls Hill reached tenth place on the Scottish Singles and Albums Charts [10] and was number 94 in its sole week on the UK Albums Chart. [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Honeycomb, Jay (5 May 2022). "The Waterboys' Mike Scott on the Strange LP 'All Souls Hill'". Features. PopMatters . Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "All Souls Hill by The Waterboys reviews | AnyDecentMusic". AnyDecentMusic?. n.d. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "All Souls Hill by The Waterboys Reviews and Tracks – Metacritic". Metacritic . Fandom, Inc. n.d. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  4. ↑ Deming, Mark (n.d.). "All Souls Hill – The Waterboys". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  5. ↑ Horowitz, Hal (11 May 2022). "Mike Scott Continues to Follow His Muse on The Waterboys' 'All Souls Hill'". Reviews > Album Reviews. American Songwriter . ISSN   0896-8993. OCLC   17342741 . Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  6. ↑ Muggs, Joe (9 May 2022). "Album: The Waterboys – All Souls Hill". The Arts Desk . Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  7. ↑ Roberts, Chris (5 May 2022). "The Waterboys: All Souls Hill album review". Reviews > Classic Rock. Classic Rock . ISSN   1464-7834 . Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  8. ↑ Hynes, Jim (3 May 2022). "The Waterboys Keep Us Guessing On Eclectic 'All Souls Hill'". Album Reviews. Glide Magazine . Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  9. ↑ O'Toole, Lucy (6 May 2022). "Album Review: The Waterboys, All Souls Hill". Opinion. Hot Press . ISSN   0332-0847 . Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  10. ↑ "Official Scottish Album Charts on 3/15/2022". Official Charts Company. n.d. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  11. ↑ "WATERBOYS songs and albums". Official Charts Company. n.d. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
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