Crown Electric

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Crown Electric
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Studio album by
Released30 September 2013
Label One Little Indian
Producer Neill MacColl
Kathryn Williams chronology
The Pond
(2012)
Crown Electric
(2013)
Hypoxia
(2015)
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Crown Electric is Kathryn Williams 11th album, released by One Little Indian on 30 September 2013. Its title refers to the Memphis power company that Elvis Presley was employed by during his pre fame years and features in that album track "Gave It Away" "Elvis drove trucks for Crown Electric before he was The King". The Metro newspaper dubbed the album 'Magnificent and melancholic [1] with Clash magazine suggesting the album added "a new dimension to her sound" [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. Underground 3:42
  2. Gave It Away 3:22
  3. Heart Shaped Stone 3:38
  4. Count 3:32
  5. Out Of Time 3:34
  6. Monday Morning 3:37
  7. Darkness Light 3:40
  8. Picture Book 4:52
  9. Morning Twilight 3:18
  10. Arwen 3:37
  11. Tequila 4:46
  12. Sequins 3:43
  13. The Known 2:58

Personnel

Recording

Produced By Neill MacColl

Recorded at Bryn Derwen Studios, Konk Studios, 50:50 Studios, The Cave & Ed's living room

Engineered & mixed by David Wrench

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References

  1. Lewis, John. "Kathryn Williams is magnificently melancholic". Metro. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  2. "Kathryn Williams - Crown Electric". Clash Magazine. Retrieved 23 March 2016.