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Released | 4 October 2024 | |||
Label | Cooking Vinyl | |||
Producer | Sean McGhee | |||
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Key is the upcoming tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Alison Moyet, set to be released on 4 October 2024, by Cooking Vinyl. [1] [2]
The albums contains 16 reworked singles and deep cuts, alongside two brand new tracks. [3] 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 off the album, "Such Small Ale", on Vernon Kay's mid-morning show on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds 13 June 2024. [6]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Originally from | Length |
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1. | "Where Hides Sleep" | Steve Jolley, Alison Moyet, Tony Swain | Alf | |
2. | "All Cried Out" | Moyet, Jolley, Swain | Alf | 3:26 |
3. | "Such Small Ale" | Moyet, Richard Oakes, Sean McGhee | Previously unreleased | 4:21 |
4. | "All Signs of Life" | Moyet, Guy Sigsworth | The Minutes | |
5. | "Can't Say It Like I Mean It" | Moyet, Pete Glenister | The Turn | |
6. | "Fire" | Moyet, Glenister | The Turn | |
7. | "Filigree" | Moyet, Sigsworth | The Minutes | |
8. | "The Impervious Me" | Moyet, Oakes, McGhee, John Garden | Previously unreleased | |
9. | "More" | Moyet, Glenister | Hometime | |
10. | "Is This Love?" | Moyet, Jean Guiot | Raindancing | |
11. | "Tongue Tied" | Moyet, Glenister | Hometime | |
12. | "My Right A.R.M." | Moyet, Glenister | Hoodoo | |
13. | "So Am I" | Moyet, Ian Broudie | Essex | |
14. | "My Best Day" | Broudie | Jollification | |
15. | "World Without End" | Moyet, Glenister | The Turn | |
16. | "This House" | Moyet | Hoodoo | |
17. | "Love Resurrection" | Jolley, Moyet, Swain | Alf | |
18. | "You Don't Have to Go" | Moyet, Glenister | Hometime |
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