Let It Shine (album)

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Let It Shine
Jeremy Fisher - Let It Shine.JPG
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 12, 2004
Genre Folk pop
Label Sony Music Canada
Jeremy Fisher chronology
Back Porch Spirituals
(2001)
Let It Shine
(2004)
Goodbye Blue Monday
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Stylus Magazine D [2]

Let It Shine is the second album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher. [3] [4] It was released on October 12, 2004, by Sony Music Canada.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Release and reception

Let It Shine is Fisher's only album to be released by a major label. [5] "High School" was a hit single in Canada, where it was widely played on radio and television. [6]

The Calgary Herald wrote that Fisher "punctuates his bouncy songs with observational humour and loads of catchy melodies." [7] Stylus Magazine called the album "a badly crafted inauthentic mess." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Lemon Meringue Pie" - 3:10
  2. "Sucker Punch" - 2:50
  3. "High School" - 3:58
  4. "Shooting Star (In Spite of It All)" - 3:31
  5. "On Par" - 4:18
  6. "Fall For Anything" - 4:52
  7. "Singing On the Sidewalk" - 3:12
  8. "Drunk On Your Tears" - 4:06
  9. "Living On the Moon" - 3:53
  10. "Let It Shine" - 4:58
  11. "Just Friends" - 3:00

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