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Released | 4 October 2024 | |||
Recorded | 2023 | |||
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Length | 73:37 | |||
Label | Cooking Vinyl | |||
Producer | Sean McGhee | |||
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Key is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Alison Moyet,released on 4 October 2024,by Cooking Vinyl. [1] [2] [3]
The album contains 16 reworked songs from Moyet's solo catalog - encompassing songs that had been released as singles in their original form as well as deep cuts - along with two brand new tracks. [1] A world tour in support of the album will begin in 2025. [4] The album coincides with the singer's 40th anniversary as a solo artist. [5]
Moyet premiered the first single,"Such Small Ale",on Vernon Kay's mid-morning show on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds 13 June 2024. [6] [7]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Originally from | Length |
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1. | "Where Hides Sleep" | Steve Jolley, Alison Moyet, Tony Swain | Alf | 3:57 |
2. | "All Cried Out" | Moyet, Jolley, Swain | Alf | 3:36 |
3. | "Such Small Ale" | Moyet, Richard Oakes, Sean McGhee | Previously unreleased | 4:21 |
4. | "All Signs of Life" | Moyet, Guy Sigsworth | The Minutes | 3:56 |
5. | "Can't Say It Like I Mean It" | Moyet, Pete Glenister | The Turn | 5:21 |
6. | "Fire" | Moyet, Glenister | The Turn | 4:26 |
7. | "Filigree" | Moyet, Sigsworth | The Minutes | 4:48 |
8. | "The Impervious Me" | Moyet, McGhee, John Garden | Previously unreleased | 4:19 |
9. | "More" | Moyet, Glenister | Hometime | 3:23 |
10. | "Is This Love?" | Moyet, Jean Guiot | Raindancing | 4:47 |
11. | "Tongue Tied" | Moyet, Glenister | Hometime | 3:11 |
12. | "My Right A.R.M." | Moyet, Glenister | Hoodoo | 4:39 |
13. | "So Am I" | Moyet, Ian Broudie | Essex | 4:00 |
14. | "My Best Day" | Moyet, Broudie | Jollification | 4:08 |
15. | "World Without End" | Moyet, Glenister | The Turn | 3:00 |
16. | "This House" | Moyet | Hoodoo | 3:50 |
17. | "Love Resurrection" | Jolley, Moyet, Swain | Alf | 3:54 |
18. | "You Don't Have to Go" | Moyet, Glenister | Hometime | 4:01 |
Total length: | 73:37 |
Chart (2024) | Peak position |
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German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] | 57 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [9] | 5 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [10] | 99 |
UK Albums (OCC) [11] | 8 |
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [12] | 3 |
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