Fool (Joe Jackson album)

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Fool
Joe Jackson Fool.jpg
Studio album by
Released18 January 2019 (2019-01-18)
Recorded2018
Length42:07
Label Edel AG
Producer Pat Dillett, Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson chronology
Fast Forward
(2015)
Fool
(2019)
What a Racket!
(2023)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Glide9/10 [4]
Paste 7.6/10 [5]

Fool is the 20th studio album by British singer-songwriter Joe Jackson. Recorded the day after the end of his Fast Forward tour at the Tonic Room Studios in Boise, Idaho. Jackson had decided to record the album in whichever city the tour finished, which happened to be Boise after a performance at the Egyptian Theatre. [6] It was released on 18 January 2019 through Edel AG.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written, arranged and produced by Joe Jackson.

No.TitleLength
1."Big Black Cloud"6:01
2."Fabulously Absolute"4:14
3."Dave"5:03
4."Strange Land"5:41
5."Friend Better"4:51
6."Fool"4:59
7."32 Kisses"4:28
8."Alchemy"6:50

Personnel

Musicians
Production

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [7] 71
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [8] 15
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [9] 72
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [10] 13
French Albums (SNEP) [11] 107
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [12] 11
Scottish Albums (OCC) [13] 64
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [14] 13
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [15] 7
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [16] 14
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [17] 25

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