Be Your Alibi

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Be Your Alibi
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Studio album by
Released2006
Recorded Courtyard Studios, Oxfordshire
Genre Indie rock, alternative rock
Label Shifty Disco
Producer Ian Davenport, Graeme Moorcroft
The Race chronology
Be Your Alibi
(2006)
In My Head It Works
(2009)
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Be Your Alibi is the debut studio album by indie rock band The Race.

Track listing

  1. Find Out
  2. Go Figure
  3. Comfort, Comfort
  4. When It Falls
  5. Tom Song
  6. Research
  7. Raising Children
  8. So Young And Beautiful
  9. Smile
  10. Amersham Road
  11. Hope Song
  12. They're Not Always Right (hidden track)

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