Baxter (1998 album)

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ReleasedSeptember 15, 1998
Recorded1997
Genre Trip hop
Length48:18
Label Maverick/Warner Bros. Records
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Producer Baxter
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Baxter is a studio album released by Swedish electronica band, Baxter on September 15, 1998 (see 1998 in music). This is the debut album by the band and was released on Warner Bros. Records through its subsidiary Maverick Records. It was recorded in the early months of 1997 and is self produced.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Television – 4:41
  2. Fading – 5:52
  3. Love Again – 3:41
  4. I Can’t See Why – 4:53
  5. Ballad of Behaviour – 4:43
  6. Political – 6:34
  7. Possible – 3:48
  8. All of My Pride – 4:39
  9. So Much I’ve Heard – 4:35
  10. Oh My Love – 4:55
  11. + I Can't See Why (Yoga Remix) – 7:00
  12. + I Can't See Why (Baxter Remix) - 6:22
  13. + I Can't See Why (Skylab Remix) - 5:28

+ Japan only release.

Personnel

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