Catholic (album)

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Catholic
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Studio album by
Released2011
Genre Rock / Alternative
Length51:06
Label Rubyworks
Producer Ken Thomas
Gavin Friday chronology
Shag Tobacco
(1995)
Catholic
(2011)
Ecce Homo
(2024)
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Catholic is the fourth solo album from Gavin Friday, written and recorded with musician Herbie Macken and released in 2011. It was released in Ireland on Good Friday (22 April), [5] 16 years after the release of his previous album, Shag Tobacco . [6] catholic deals with concepts of letting go and coming to terms with loss. [7] It was produced by Ken Thomas (Throbbing Gristle, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Rós) [8] and recorded in Dublin, Cork and West Yorkshire. [9] Patrick McCabe wrote the novella Requiem for the Dying for the album liner notes. [10] [7] The video for "Able" was directed by Kevin Godley. [11]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Able" – 4:47
  2. "Land on the Moon" – 5:07
  3. "A Song that Hurts" – 5:33
  4. "The Only One" – 4:16
  5. "Blame" – 4:54
  6. "The Sun and the Moon and the Stars" – 4:17
  7. "It's All Ahead of You" – 4:34
  8. "Perfume" – 3:34
  9. "Epilogue" – 3:09
  10. "Where'd Ya Go? Gone" – 4:41
  11. "Lord I'm Comin'" – 6:52

Personnel

Album title

The album's title is deliberately spelled with a lower case c to emphasise the word's original meaning: universal, for every man, with wide sympathies. [6] [12] Friday stated he wanted to claim back the word from the Roman Catholic church. [13]

Album cover

The album's cover photo is based on and pays homage to the painting Michael Collins, Love of Ireland [14] by Sir John Lavery which depicts Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins lying in state. Friday had seen the painting at the Sir John Lavery "Passion and Politics" exhibit [15] in Dublin at the Hugh Lane Gallery in September 2010. [13] The photo was taken by Perry Ogden. [16] Although the image sets up parallels between the turmoil of the birth years of an independent Ireland and the mid-2000s state of upheaval and political chaos, Friday has stated that this is "an emotional, not a political, album". [17]

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