Face Your Fear

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Face Your Fear
Face Your Fear, Curtis Harding album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 27, 2017
Genre Soul
Length41:15
Label Anti-
Producer Sam Cohen, Danger Mouse, Curtis Harding, Nic Jodoin
Curtis Harding chronology
Soul Power
(2014)
Face Your Fear
(2017)

Face Your Fear is the second studio album by American singer Curtis Harding, released October 27, 2017, by Anti-.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Clash 8/10 [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Mark Deming writes, "Curtis Harding can write and sing like a soul man with a mind of his own, and here he sounds even more open, expressive, and fearless than he did on his very fine debut. Face Your Fear ups the ante for Harding, bumping him from promising newcomer to major artist, and if you like good songs played and sung with true conviction, you won't want to sleep on this." [2] The song, "On and On" was used for the ending scene of the Disney+ MCU television series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier . [6]

Track listing

Adapted from AllMusic. [2]

All tracks are written by Sam Cohen and Curtis Harding, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Wednesday Morning Atonement" (Brian Burton, Cohen and Harding)4:28
2."Face Your Fear"3:54
3."On and On"4:01
4."Go as You Are"3:58
5."Till the End"3:11
6."Need Your Love"2:57
7."Dream Girl"3:22
8."Welcome to My World"3:36
9."Ghost of You"4:29
10."Need My Baby"3:17
11."As I Am" (Harding and Nic Jodoin)4:02

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic. [7]

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [8] 21
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 111
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 152
French Albums (SNEP) [11] 79
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] 43
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [13] 78

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