Home Again (Edwyn Collins album)

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Home Again is the sixth solo album by former Orange Juice singer Edwyn Collins, released 17 September 2007 on Heavenly Records.

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Home Again
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Studio album by
Released17 September 2007
Recorded2004
Genre Indie
Length46:11
Label Heavenly
Producer Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Collins chronology
A Casual Introduction 1981/2001
(2003)
Home Again
(2007)
Losing Sleep
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The album was recorded at Collins' West Heath Studios in the winter of 2004 but was not completed until early 2007. In the interim, Collins' suffered two brain haemorrhages in February 2005 and was hospitalised for most of that year. After a long recovery process, he returned to his studio to mix the album in the winter of 2006 with the help of engineer Seb Lewsley.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Edwyn Collins

  1. "One Is a Lonely Number" - 5:22
  2. "Home Again" - 3:12
  3. "You'll Never Know (My Love)" - 3:37
  4. "7th Son" - 3:51
  5. "Leviathan" - 4:29
  6. "It's in Your Heart" - 2:48
  7. "Superstar Talking Blues" - 2:57
  8. "Liberteenage Rag" - 3:27
  9. "A Heavy Sigh" - 5:27
  10. "Written in Stone" - 4:05
  11. "One Track Mind" - 3:38
  12. "Then I Cried" - 3:18

The album was preceded by the single release of "You'll Never Know", on 10 September 2007.

Personnel

Production

Notes

  1. "Home Again - Edwyn Collins". AllMusic . Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  2. Lynskey, Dorian (14 September 2007). "CD: Edwyn Collins, Home Again". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  3. "Stylus review". Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2007.