Ex-Sensitive

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Ex-Sensitive
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ReleasedJuly 17, 2007
Genre Pop
Label Custard
Producer Linda Perry
Ben Jelen chronology
Rejected (EP)
(2005)
Ex-Sensitive
(2007)
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Ex-Sensitive is the second album by Scottish/American singer Ben Jelen and is his first release on Linda Perry's Custard Records. The first single, "Where Do We Go", failed to chart in the US.

Track listing

  1. "Pulse"
  2. "Where Do We Go"
  3. "Ex-Sensitive"
  4. "Counting Down"
  5. "Just a Little"
  6. "Not My Plan"
  7. "Papa, Here I Go"
  8. "Vulnerable"
  9. "Mr. Philosopher"
  10. "Short of the World"
  11. "Wreckage"
  12. "The Other Side"
  13. "What Have We Done"

Production


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