Loved (Cranes album)

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Loved
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Studio album by
Cranes
Released12 September 1994 (1994-09-12)
Genre Dream pop
Length43:05
Label Dedicated
Producer Cranes
Cranes chronology
Forever
(1993)		Loved
(1994)		La Tragédie d'Oreste et Électre
(1996)
Singles from Loved
  1. "Shining Road"
    Released: 22 August 1994 [1]

Loved is the third studio album by English rock band Cranes. It was released on 12 September 1994 by Dedicated Records. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Rating-Christgau-neither.png [4]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 6/10 [7]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Greg Fasolino of Trouser Press said: "'Shining Road' has an enchanting pop melody and rushing guitar pulse, 'Lilies' flirts with fragile funkiness and 'Paris and Rome' feels like a European music-box waltz. Using odd squeaking noises and distant whammy-bar twangs, 'Beautiful Friend' cunningly fashions an unusual ambient/Western hybrid; the title track actually rocks." [9] Cranes' entry in the 1995 Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music notes that while Alison Shaw's vocals are "noticeably more prominent in the mix" on Loved than on earlier Cranes recordings, the band's music remains rooted in dream pop. [10] Writing in The Rough Guide to Rock , Ian Canadine found Loved to be "very similar in tone" to Cranes' previous album Forever (1993), as well as "somehow too comfortable, though containing some echoes of the clang of old on 'Reverie'." [11]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alison Shaw and Jim Shaw.

  1. "Shining Road" – 3:50
  2. "Pale Blue Sky" – 3:29
  3. "Rêverie" – 4:00
  4. "Lilies" – 3:44
  5. "Are You Gone?" – 2:56
  6. "Loved" – 3:09
  7. "Beautiful Friend" – 3:12
  8. "Bewildered" – 4:21
  9. "Come This Far" – 4:09
  10. "Paris and Rome" – 6:03
  11. "In the Night" (exclusive to CD edition) – 4:12

US edition bonus tracks

  2. "Shining Road" (Brauer mix) – 3:53
  3. "Paris and Rome" (Flood mix) – 5:17
  4. "Lilies" (Flood mix) – 3:54

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [12]

Production

Design

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [13] 5

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References

  1. ↑ Shining Road (press advertisement). Dedicated Records. 1994. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ↑ "Album Releases" (PDF). Music Week . 10 September 1994. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Loved – Cranes". AllMusic . Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Cranes: Loved". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 64. ISBN   0-312-24560-2 . Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  5. ↑ Huston, Johnny (18 November 1994). "Music Review: 'Loved'". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  6. ↑ Sullivan, Caroline (7 October 1994). "Cranes: Loved (Dedicated DEDCD016)". The Guardian .
  7. ↑ "Cranes: Loved". NME . 17 September 1994. p. 57.
  8. ↑ "Cranes: Loved". Q . No. 97. October 1994. p. 111.
  9. ↑ Fasolino, Greg. "Cranes". Trouser Press . Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  10. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1995). "Cranes". The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 971. ISBN   0-85112-662-6.
  11. ↑ Canadine, Ian (2003). "Cranes". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). Rough Guides. pp. 241–242. ISBN   1-84353-105-4 . Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  12. ↑ Loved (liner notes). Cranes. Dedicated Records. 1994. DEDCD 016.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  13. ↑ "Independent Albums" (PDF). Music Week . 1 October 1994. p. 22. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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