The Glamour (album)

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The Glamour
Comsat Angels - The Glamour cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1995, reissued 2007
Recorded1994
StudioAxis Studio, Sheffield
Genre Post-punk
Length62:11 (1995)
89:36 (2007)
Label RPM Records (1995), Renascent (2007)
Producer The Comsat Angels
The Comsat Angels chronology
My Mind's Eye
(1992)
The Glamour
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Glamour is the ninth and final album by the Comsat Angels, released in 1995 on RPM Records and on Caroline Records in the US. In 2007, Renascent reissued the album as a double CD with seven additional tracks.

Contents

This was the Comsat Angels' last studio album and the only one with a lineup of five band members. Bass player Kevin Bacon had left the band after the release of My Minds Eye and was replaced by Terry Todd. A second guitarist, Simon Anderson, was also added.

Comsats frontman Stephen Fellows regretted how rushed they were in producing this album, saying, "We were prevented by deadlines from finishing all the music we were recording." [3] He also said, in a 1997 interview, "Although I am very pleased with The Glamour as the last album it was kind of [Mik Glashier] piloted that one, he wanted to make a rock album". [4] In his view, the 2007 reissue, with its added tracks, improved the album. Fellows said, "This is much closer to how it should have been". [5]

Track listing (1995)

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Peake/Todd/Anderson.

  1. "Psychedelic Dungeon" – 3:57
  2. "The Glamour" – 3:15
  3. "Audrey in Denim" – 4:46
  4. "Oblivion" – 7:42
  5. "Web of Sound" – 3:52
  6. "Breaker" – 6:23
  7. "SS100X" – 3:41
  8. "Sailor" – 3:24
  9. "Demon Lover" – 3:15
  10. "Pacific Ocean Blues" – 4:22
  11. "Anjelica" – 4:11
  12. "Valley of the Nile" – 4:32
  13. "Spaced" – 8:51

Track listing (2007)

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Peake/Todd/Anderson.

Disc one

  1. "I Hear a New World" (Alternative Mix, Re-master) – 4:17
  2. "Goddess" (Re-master) – 3:32
  3. "Anjelica" (Different Vocals, Alternative Mix) – 4:11
  4. "Valley of the Nile" (Alternative Mix) – 4:32
  5. "Sailor" – 3:24
  6. "Pacific Ocean Blues" – 4:22
  7. "Oblivion" – 7:42
  8. "The Niala Game" – 4:27
  9. "Audrey in Denim" – 4:46
  10. "Demon Lover" – 3:15

Disc two

  1. "Psychedelic Dungeon" – 3:57
  2. "SS100X" (Different Vocals, Alternative Mix) – 3:41
  3. "The Glamour" – 3:15
  4. "Breaker" – 6:23
  5. "Evanescent" – 4:33
  6. "Hyperprism 1" – 4:14
  7. "Spaced" – 8:51
  8. "Web of Sound" – 3:52
  9. "A Song Called Dave" – 1:59
  10. "Slayer of the Real" (Demo) – 4:23

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Popmatters review
  3. Liner notes from Renascent reissue of The Glamour
  4. Step Off, interviews, Stephen Fellows interviewed by Tony Kinson 13/3/97
  5. Liner notes from Renascent reissue of The Glamour