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| Released | 1 July 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2012–2013 | |||
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| Length | 40:40 | |||
| Label | PledgeMusic | |||
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Hide & Seek is the debut studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Janet Devlin. It received a limited release via PledgeMusic on 1 July 2013. It received a general release on 9 June 2014 under the new title Running with Scissors, including four original songs as well as reworked versions of some of the songs from Hide & Seek. [1]
I wanted to go off and write an album I'd be really proud of and know that, when it did come out, I wouldn't regret it. I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life
—Janet Devlin talking to Portsmouth News about the album. [2]
Following her participation in the eighth series of the British X Factor and the X Factor Tour, Devlin started working on her debut studio album.
All of the songs were written in collaboration by Devlin and songwriters including Newton Faulkner, Eliot Kennedy and Jack Savoretti.
The limited release of the album via PledgeMusic included a bonus four-track acoustic EP, Nothing Lost, which was released on 14 August 2013. This EP had additional tracks co-written with Savoretti and Joe Janiak included as well as a cover of her X Factor audition song, "Your Song" by Elton John.
A version of "Delicate" originally included on the EP Nothing Lost was later added to the final track listing for the general release of Hide & Seek.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Wonderful" | Janet Devlin, Newton Faulkner, Battenberg | Eliot Kennedy, Jim Jayawardena | 3:15 |
| 2. | "Creatures of the Night" | Devlin, Faulkner, Battenberg | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 2:59 |
| 3. | "Working for the Man" | Devlin, Jack Savoretti | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 3:05 |
| 4. | "Pick Me Up" | Devlin, Joe Janiak | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 4:08 |
| 5. | "Crown of Thorns" | Devlin, Jayawardena, Philippa Hanna | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 4:42 |
| 6. | "Things We Lost in the Fire" | Devlin, Kennedy, Jayawardena, Hanna | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 4:01 |
| 7. | "Who Am I to You" | Devlin, Helen Boulding | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 3:38 |
| 8. | "Hide & Seek" | Devlin, Faulkner, Battenberg | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 3:12 |
| 9. | "Walk Away" | Devlin, Janiak | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 3:46 |
| 10. | "Nothing Left to Hide" | Devlin, Janiak | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 2:50 |
| 11. | "When We Were Young" | Devlin, Janiak | Kennedy, Jayawardena | 5:04 |
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