Scream Above the Sounds

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Scream Above the Sounds
Stereophonics - Scream Above the Sounds (Album artwork).png
Studio album by
Stereophonics
Released27 October 2017 (2017-10-27)
RecordedMarch 2015–December 2016
Studio
Genre Rock
Length46:29
Label
Producer
Stereophonics chronology
Keep the Village Alive
(2015)		Scream Above the Sounds
(2017)		 Kind
(2019)
Singles from Scream Above the Sounds
  1. "All in One Night"
    Released: 27 July 2017
  2. "Caught by the Wind"
    Released: 4 September 2017
  3. "Before Anyone Knew Our Name"
    Released: 20 October 2017 [3]
  4. "What's All the Fuss About?"
    Released: April 2018
  5. "Taken a Tumble"
    Released: June 2018

Scream Above the Sounds is the tenth studio album by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. Released on 27 October 2017 by Parlophone Records, it was produced by lead singer and guitarist Kelly Jones, along with Jim Lowe.

Contents

Background

In 2015, Stereophonics released their ninth studio album, Keep the Village Alive , and supported it with the Keep the Summer Alive Tour throughout late-spring and summer 2016. During the tour, Kelly Jones announced he would like to release the band's tenth studio album "before next summer" to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Word Gets Around , rather than release a compilation album. [4] [5] In February 2017, the band signed with Parlophone Records to release Scream Above The Sounds, [6] having been on their own Stylus Records label for Graffiti on the Train and Keep the Village Alive.

On 27 July, Stereophonics revealed the name, release date and album artwork for Scream Above the Sounds, as well as releasing the lead single "All in One Night". [7] The single was accompanied by a video directed by Joseph Connor. [8] "All in One Night" was inspired by Victoria and was written when the band were touring in Shanghai with Jones in a hotel due to a delayed flight. "I was in this hotel and it was basically an idea I had after watching this German film called ‘Victoria’, which is about this girl who goes into a nightclub and ends up hooking up with these three guys," Jones continued "I thought the idea of two people meeting and their life completely changing over the course of one night was quite an interesting idea." [9]

The next single was "Caught by the Wind", which was released on 4 September 2017 along with a music video. On 20 October the band released the song "Before Anyone Knew Our Name" through their YouTube channel, and on 24 October they performed "Taken a Tumble" on Later... with Jools Holland .

Title and artwork

"The title comes from my feeling that we’re constantly being bombarded with information, at the moment it’s mainly bad news, but you can’t get away from it. You need to be able to separate yourself from all that, to decompress, I think too much people are over-reliant on it.”

—Kelly Jones [10]

The cover art was designed by Graham Rounthwaite, who also designed the artwork to the band's fifth studio album Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

The title of the album was taken from a line in the single 'All In One Night'. Kelly Jones said the title of the album didn't come easy. "It’s always the last thing. Scream Above The Sounds came to me one night, we were mixing the album and the line jumped out at me." [10]

Release

The album was released on 27 October 2017 on CD, vinyl and digital download formats, with the downloaded edition including a digital booklet. A deluxe edition was released at the same time with five bonus tracks. Two unplugged versions of previously released songs from the album – "Caught By The Wind" and "All In One Night" and three previously unreleased songs – "Never Going Down", "Drive a Thousand Miles" and "Breaking Dawn". The sticker on the deluxe CD mistakenly lists the tracks "What's All the Fuss About?" and "Would You Believe?" as singles, despite the fact that they had not been released previously.

Reception

Critical response

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 5.0/10 [11]
Metacritic 57/100 [12]
Review scores
SourceRating
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Clash (7/10) [14]
Evening Standard Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [15]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [16]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [17]
Islington Gazette Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [18]
laut.de Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [19]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [20]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [21]
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [22]

Scream Above the Sounds has received generally mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 57 based on five reviews. [12] John Aizlewood of Classic Rock praised the album saying "By any yardstick, this album is good work." [13]

Commercial performance

On 3 November 2017, the album reached number two on the UK Albums Chart, debuting behind Together Again by Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, which sold 35 more copies. [23] On 29 December 2017 the album was certified Gold in the UK for sales of 100,000. [24]

Track listing

All tracks written by Kelly Jones; "Taken a Tumble" music co-written by Adam Zindani. [25]

No.TitleLength
1."Caught by the Wind"3:37
2."Taken a Tumble"3:36
3."What's All the Fuss About?"5:44
4."Geronimo"4:15
5."All in One Night"5:17
6."Chances Are"4:45
7."Before Anyone Knew Our Name"4:43
8."Would You Believe?"4:07
9."Cryin' in Your Beer"3:48
10."Boy on a Bike"2:17
11."Elevators"4:20
Total length:46:29
Scream Above the Sounds – Deluxe edition (bonus tracks) [26]
No.TitleLength
12."Never Going Down" (Live at RAK Studios)4:05
13."Drive a Thousand Miles" (Graffiti sessions)4:31
14."Breaking Dawn" (Written For Twilight)3:29
15."All in One Night" (Unplugged)5:29
16."Caught by the Wind" (Unplugged)3:41

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [39] Gold100,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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