Outside (Amar album)

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Outside
Outside Amar Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 12, 2000
Genre Worldbeat, electronic
Label Blanco Y Negro
Producer Robin Millar, Nitin Sawhney [1] [2]
Amar chronology
Mein Aur Tu
(1994)
Outside
(2000)
Show It Off
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Birmingham Post Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Outside is an album by the British Indian singer Amar, released in 2000. [1]

Contents

"Sometimes It Snows in April" peaked at No. 48 on the UK Singles Chart. [4] A remix of the song was included on Mixmag's list of the "40 Best Tracks of 1995 to 2005". [5]

Critical reception

The Guardian called the album "wilfully eclectic," writing that "the songs benefit from breaking things down to the essentials, fusing [Amar's] distinctive raw vocals with blissed-out tablas, keyboards and strings." [2] The Birmingham Post wrote that the album weds "a vocal style vaguely reminiscent of Kate Bush" to "breakbeats and lush orchestrations." [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The World"4:53
2."Sometimes It Snows in April"4:24
3."Claustrophobic"6:50
4."Maybe"5:22
5."Rain"2:07
6."To an Alien Land"5:51
7."Demons Win the Game"4:32
8."Red Sky"5:20
9."Another Tune"3:18
10."Tere Bina"4:11
11."After Sunset"4:59
12."Morning"3:00

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