Lost Souls (Loreena McKennitt album)

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Lost Souls
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 11, 2018
RecordedMay–October 2017
Genre Folk, World, Celtic
Length47:58
Label Quinlan Road
Producer Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt chronology
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
(2010)
Lost Souls
(2018)
Singles from Lost Souls
  1. "A Hundred Wishes"
    Released: 9 March 2018
  2. "Spanish Guitars And Night Plazas"
    Released: 6 April 2018
  3. "Sun, Moon & Stars"
    Released: 27 April 2018
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Lost Souls is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt, which was released on May 11, 2018. [2] [3] The track "The Ballad of the Fox Hunter" is an adaptation of the poem by W. B. Yeats, and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is an adaptation of the poem by John Keats. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Spanish Guitars and Night Plazas"6:41
2."A Hundred Wishes"4:34
3."Ages Past, Ages Hence"5:27
4."The Ballad of the Fox Hunter"5:48
5."Manx Ayre" (Instrumental)4:03
6."La Belle Dame sans merci"6:09
7."Sun, Moon and Stars" (Instrumental)4:34
8."Breaking of the Sword"5:30
9."Lost Souls"5:09
Total length:47:58

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [4] 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [5] 32
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [6] 80
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [7] 14
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [8] 43
French Albums (SNEP) [9] 57
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [10] 5
Italian Albums (FIMI) [11] 40
Scottish Albums (OCC) [12] 59
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [13] 15
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [14] 11
US Billboard 200 [15] 164

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