| Come from Heaven | ||||
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| Released | 1997 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop, downtempo | |||
| Length | 68:46 | |||
| Label | Melankolic, Virgin | |||
| Producer | Alpha | |||
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| Singles from Come from Heaven | ||||
Come from Heaven is the debut studio album by Alpha. It was released on Massive Attack's record label, Melankolic, in 1997. It includes vocal contributions from Martin Barnard, Wendy Stubbs, and Helen White. [1] "Sometime Later" peaked at number 91 on the UK Singles Chart. [2]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ [4] |
| NME | 7/10 [5] |
| Pitchfork | 7.1/10 [6] |
| Spin | 8/10 [7] |
Ned Raggett of AllMusic described the album as "a gently queasy blend of sounds and styles that manages to be tasteful and downright romantic without being airbrushed soul." [3] He wrote: "When the duo fully stretches its collage/sampling muscles, as on the title track, it can be quite breathtaking, a careful balance between chaos and atmospherics." [3]
Larry Flick of Billboard stated that the album "combines the sample-happy experimental sound of the electronic underground with traditional pop sounds." [8] Randall Roberts of CMJ New Music Monthly called it "slow, deep, sexy nighttime music, so richly recorded and alive with pleasure that only the extremely sexually repressed could not feel it down there." [9]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "My Things" | Dingley, Jenks | 4:09 |
| 2. | "Rain" | Dingley, Jenks, Stubbs | 5:07 |
| 3. | "Sometime Later" | Dingley, Jenks, Barnard | 7:01 |
| 4. | "Delaney" | Dingley, Jenks, Barnard, White | 4:55 |
| 5. | "Hazeldub" | Dingley, Jenks | 5:46 |
| 6. | "Slim" | Dingley, Jenks, White | 5:51 |
| 7. | "Come from Heaven" | Dingley, Jenks | 2:14 |
| 8. | "Back" | Dingley, Jenks, Barnard | 5:02 |
| 9. | "Nyquil" | Dingley, Jenks, Stubbs | 6:55 |
| 10. | "Apple Orange" | Dingley, Jenks | 6:11 |
| 11. | "With" | Dingley, Jenks, White | 3:31 |
| 12. | "Firefly" | Dingley, Jenks, Barnard | 4:46 |
| 13. | "Somewhere Not Here" | Dingley, Jenks, Stubbs | 7:18 |
Credits adapted from liner notes.
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