Lustre (Ed Harcourt album)

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Lustre
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Studio album by
Ed Harcourt
Released14 June 2010
RecordedBear Creek Studios, Snohomish County, Washington
Genre British rock, chamber pop
Length49:00
24:26 (bonus disc)
LanguageEnglish
Label Piano Wolf Recordings
Producer Ryan Hadlock, Ed Harcourt
Ed Harcourt chronology
Russian Roulette EP
(2009)		Lustre
(2010)		 Back into the Woods
(2013)

Lustre is the fifth studio album from British singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt. The album was released on 14 June 2010 in the UK, and a day later in the US. [1] The album is the first release on Harcourt's own label Piano Wolf Recordings, distributed through Essential Music Marketing (in North America, the album was released through Nice Music Group). The album follows his 2009 EP Russian Roulette , and is his first studio album since 2006's The Beautiful Lie . On his official MySpace blog, Harcourt said of the album: "It's got horns, violins, howling, mellophones, the Langley sisters, barks, whistles, hell I even sung down by a creek in the middle of the night." [2] Harcourt told Direct Current that the album is "about that gleaming quality – the vitality, the passion – that drives you to keep going and not give up." [3] A special edition of the album was also released in the UK, featuring a bonus disc of unreleased recordings. [4] The album was preceded by the radio single "Do as I Say Not as I Do."

Contents

Lustre reached number 12 on the UK Indie Album Chart upon its release. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [8]
Pitchfork Media (4.3/10)

Geeks.co.uk awarded the album 5 out of 5 stars, and called the album "an open, honest and beautifully reflective album." [9] Allmusic gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars, saying the album is "a sweepingly romantic, epic, and sparkling collection of tunes that finds the British singer/songwriter ruminating on true love, money issues, and parenthood in a way that only a man who has found his place in the world can," and concluding that "Lustre takes on a kind of cinematic joy where Harcourt the long-suffering vampiric troubadour steps into the light and shines." [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ed Harcourt.

Lustre
No.TitleLength
1."Lustre"4:06
2."Haywired"4:15
3."Church of No Religion"4:54
4."Heart of a Wolf"4:16
5."Do as I Say Not as I Do"4:09
6."Killed by the Morning Sun"5:06
7."Lachrymosity"3:05
8."A Secret Society"4:33
9."When the Lost Don't Want to Be Found"4:09
10."So I've Been Told"4:21
11."Fears of a Father"5:54
Illustrious (special edition bonus disc)
No.TitleLength
1."Illustrious"2:52
2."Words of Prey"3:18
3."Pistols at Dawn"2:54
4."A Public Sobriety"4:02
5."Heart of a Wolf" (Instrumental)4:17
6."A Very Good Impression of Myself"3:16
7."Snow You've Been Cold"3:53

Personnel

Musicians
Production

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References

  1. ↑ "Ed Harcourt Returns With "Lustre" June 15th" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Featured Content on Myspace". Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Direct Current – Ed Harcourt – Lustre [ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ "Ed Harcourt – Lustre" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  5. ↑ BBC – Radio 1 – Indie Albums (retrieved 21 June 2010)
  6. ↑ "Lustre by Ed Harcourt" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  7. 1 2 Collar, Matt. "Lustre – Overview". Allmusic . Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  8. ↑ Farah, Amanda (15 June 2010). "Ed Harcourt – Lustre / Releases". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  9. ↑ Ed Harcourt – Lustre – geeks.co.uk Archived 22 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ "Ed Harcourt – Lustre" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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