Out of the Woods (Tracey Thorn album)

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Out of the Woods
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Studio album by
Released5 March 2007 (2007-03-05)
Genre
Length42:54
Label Virgin
Producer
Tracey Thorn chronology
A Distant Shore
(1982)
Out of the Woods
(2007)
Love and Its Opposite
(2010)

Out of the Woods is the second solo album by Tracey Thorn. It was released on 5 March 2007 on Virgin Records. The album charted on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 172 on 7 April 2007. [1]

Contents

The majority of the album's production was by Ewan Pearson who also produced the first single, "It's All True". Other collaborators included Cagedbaby, Charles Webster, Klas Lindblad, Martin Wheeler and Alex Santos.

Background

Out of the Woods marked Thorn's full-time return to the music scene after an absence of over six years. It was released on 20 March 2007 in the U.S. on Astralwerks.

Thorn told Billboard magazine about the recording of the album: [2]

"When I started this album, I was thinking, 'Well, alright, I want to make a quirky little record, a little bit acoustic, a little bit dance... I also thought I was going to do a lot of covers, because I hadn't written anything in a long time. But once I started, I found myself writing more songs and collaborating with people. When the record was finished, I was quite startled. I thought, 'Wow, I made a pop record without really meaning to.'"

Thorn namechecked post-punk peers and idols Terry Hall (from 2-Tone Records ska-revivalists The Specials, and New Pop trio Fun Boy Three), Edwyn Collins (of Postcard Records' Orange Juice) and Siouxsie Sioux in the song "Hands Up to the Ceiling". The record also includes contributions from Cagedbaby, Ewan Pearson, Charles Webster, Sasse, Darshan Jesrani, Martin Wheeler and Alex Santos.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Guardian Unlimited Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Okayplayer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork 5.6/10 [8]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [3]

Singles

The first single from the album, "It's All True", accompanied by remixes from the likes of Kris Menace & Martin Buttrich, was released on 7 February and the second single, "Raise the Roof" was released on 18 June. The third single, "Grand Canyon" was released on 30 October. A fourth single, "King's Cross" (which is a cover version of a Pet Shop Boys song) was released on 12 December.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Here It Comes Again" Thorn 3:06
2."A-Z"Thorn, Gandey3:41
3."It's All True"Thorn, Jesrani, Lindblad, Pearson4:13
4."Get Around to It" Russell 6:00
5."Hands Up to the Ceiling"Thorn2:58
6."Easy"Thorn, Wheeler3:58
7."Falling off a Log"Thorn3:17
8."Nowhere Near"Thorn3:07
9."Grand Canyon"Thorn, Santos6:07
10."By Piccadilly Station I Sat Down and Wept"Thorn2:25
11."Raise the Roof"Thorn, Gandey4:02
iTunes edition bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."King's Cross" Tennant, Lowe 4:28

Charts

Chart performance for Out of the Woods
Chart (2007)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [9] 86
Italian Albums (FIMI) [10] 79
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [11] 44
UK Albums (OCC) [12] 38
US Billboard 200 [13] 172
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [14] 4
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [15] 5
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [16] 20

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