Planets Conspire

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Planets Conspire
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 17, 2006
Recorded2004–2005
Genre Rock
Length42:26
Label V2 Records
We Are Busy Bodies
Producer José Miguel Contreras
The Meligrove Band chronology
Let It Grow
(2002)
Planets Conspire
(2006)
Shimmering Lights
(2010)
Singles from Planets Conspire
  1. "Everyone's A Winner"
  2. "Our Love Will Make The World Go Round"

Planets Conspire is a 2006 album by The Meligrove Band. Released January 17, 2006 in Canada, Planets Conspire is their third studio album, and their first with V2 Records (the Canadian vinyl edition was released by indie label We Are Busy Bodies). The album features Jason Nunes on vocals, piano, guitar and organ, Andrew Scott on guitar, organ and brass, Michael Small on bass and Darcy Rego on drums and acoustic guitar.

Contents

Planets Conspire was featured as Rough Trade Shops' Album of the Month in April 2006, and in Canada it reached #2 on the national campus radio chart. [1]

The album was remastered and reissued as a double vinyl LP in November 2017. [2]

Track listing

All songs written by Jason Nunes, except where noted.

Side A

  1. "Isle of Yew" – 3:38
  2. "Planets Conspire" – 3:52
  3. "Grasshoppers in Honey" – 3:48
  4. "Everyone's a Winner" – 3:37
  5. "Feversleep" – 1:07

Side B

  1. "Ages & Stages" – 2:14
  2. "Our Love Will Make the World Go Round" – 3:21
  3. "I'm Easy" (Nunes, Darcy Rego) – 4:09
  4. "Free on the Air" (Rego) – 2:41
  5. "You're Alive" – 4:12
  6. "Delivered from All Blindness of Heart" – 4:34

Personnel

Band

Guests

Release history

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References

  1. Clap Your Hands Say #1! [usurped] . Retrieved November 1, 2008.
  2. The Meligrove Band’s 2006 classic ‘Planets Conspire’ reissued by Label Obscura Retrieved March 11, 2022.