The Summer of High Hopes

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The Summer of High Hopes
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 12, 2006 (Ireland)
September 26, 2006 (North America)
Genre Pop
Label Dead Daisy Records
Producer Nathan Larson
Emm Gryner chronology
The Great Lakes
(2005)
The Summer of High Hopes
(2006)
Goddess
(2007)

The Summer of High Hopes is the tenth album by Emm Gryner, released in 2006 on Dead Daisy Records. [1]

In an interview with Q Magazine , Bono cited Gryner's "Almighty Love" as one of the songs he most wished he had written himself. [2]

Copies preordered through Gryner's website were shipped with a bonus disc, PVT, which featured rerecorded versions of songs from her 1998 album Public . This disc was later offered as a separate purchase.

Track listing

  1. "Girls are Murder" – 4:23
  2. "Merlot" – 3:30
  3. "All-Time Low" – 2:56
  4. "Almighty Love" – 3:53
  5. "Blackwinged Bird" – 4:21
  6. "Black-Eyed Blue Sky" – 2:22
  7. "Queen of the Boys" – 3:33
  8. "Starcrossed" – 3:56
  9. "See the Sea" – 2:26
  10. "Sunshine" – 3:18
  11. "Sweet Destroyer" – 4:58

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References

  1. Shuttleworth, Joanne (10 June 2006). "Gryner's Summer of High Hopes", Guelph Mercury , p. C1.
  2. Collins, Leah (28 June 2007). "Irish luck smiles on Emm Gryner: Canadian singer a big hit on Emerald Isle", Edmonton Journal , p. D4.