Forever (Cranes album)

Forever
Studio album by Cranes
Released	26 April 1993 (1993-04-26)
Studio	First Protocol (London)
Genre	Dream pop [1]
Length	39:36
Label	Dedicated
Producer	Cranes
Cranes chronology
Wings of Joy (1991) Forever (1993) Loved (1994)
Singles from Forever
"Adrift" Released: 29 March 1993 [2] "Jewel" Released: 6 September 1993 [3]

Forever is the second studio album by English rock band Cranes. It was released on 26 April 1993 by Dedicated Records. ^{[4] [5]}

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[7]

Melody Maker ranked Forever as the 24th best album of 1993. ^[8]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett stated that Forever saw Cranes building on the mixture of "elegant restraint" and "brusque power" that characterised their 1991 debut album Wings of Joy . ^[6] He noted that Forever "went to extremes in both directions – the quieter moments were even more hushed and shadowed, the louder points all that much more whip-snap cruel." ^[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alison Shaw and Jim Shaw

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Everywhere"	3:41
2.	"Cloudless"	5:33
3.	"Jewel"	3:05
4.	"Far Away"	3:53
5.	"Adrift"	5:09
6.	"Clear"	3:43
7.	"Sun and Sky"	3:34
8.	"And Ever"	4:04
9.	"Golden"	3:43
10.	"Rainbows"	3:11
Total length:		39:36

European edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Shine Like Stars"	4:32
Total length:		44:08

UK limited CD edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Puppet"	3:48
2.	"Shine Like Stars"	4:32
Total length:		8:20

UK limited LP edition and European limited CD edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Length
1.	"At Sea"	3:19
2.	"Slide"	2:50
3.	"Wings of Joy"	2:04
4.	"Trumpet Song"	1:48
Total length:		10:01

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. ^[9]

Cranes

• Matt Cope – guitar
• Mark Francombe – guitar, keyboards
• Alison Shaw – vocals, bass
• Jim Shaw – drums, guitar, keyboards, bass

Additional musicians

• The Falseharmonics – strings on "Golden"
• Audrey Riley – string arrangements on "Golden"

Production

• Cranes – production, engineering
• Giles Hall – engineering
• Marcus Lindsay – engineering
• Andy Wilkinson – engineering

Design

• Miles Aldridge – photography
• John Barnbrook – Cranes logo design
• Albert Tupelo – design

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC) [10]	40
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [11]	4

References

1. Hughley, Marty (27 March 1994). "Listen to the Shimmering Cocteau Sound on the Band's Best Recordings". The Sunday Oregonian .
2. "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 27 March 1993. p. 27. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
3. "Single Releases" (PDF). Music Week . 4 September 1993. p. 25. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
4. "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music Week . 24 April 1993. pp. 12, 21. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
5. Forever (press advertisement). Dedicated Records. 1993. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
6. Raggett, Ned. "Forever – Cranes". AllMusic . Retrieved 30 March 2014.
7. Christgau, Robert (2000). "Cranes: Forever". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 64. ISBN   0-312-24560-2 . Retrieved 30 March 2014.
8. "Albums of the Year". Melody Maker . 25 December 1993 – 1 January 1994. p. 77.
9. Forever (liner notes). Cranes. Dedicated Records. 1993. DEDCD 009.
10. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
11. "Independent: Albums" (PDF). Music Week . 15 May 1993. p. 22. Retrieved 28 May 2021.

External links

• Forever at Discogs (list of releases)