Burning Cities

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Burning Cities
Skids - Burning Cities Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released12 January 2018
Length44:02
Producer Youth
Skids chronology
Joy
(1981)
Burning Cities
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 64/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Cryptic RockStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Daily Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Uncut 7/10 [6]
The Herald Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Burning Cities is the fifth studio album by Scottish punk rock and new wave band Skids, [8] released on 12 January 2018. Produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth, this is the band's first studio album in 36 years, since the release of Joy in November 1981. It is their first album to feature Big Country father-and-son guitarists, Bruce and Jamie Watson, the second with drummer Mike Baillie, and third with founding bassist William Simpson. Tracks 5, 7, 9 and 11 are co-written by Martin Metcalfe. [9] The album reached number 28 in the charts. [10] It is also the first album not to feature any contribution from former guitarist Stuart Adamson, who died in 2001.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."This Is Our World"4:28
2."One Last Chance"3:11
3."Kaputt"3:55
4."A World On Fire"4:23
5."Burning Cities"3:45
6."Up On the Moors"3:33
7."Refugee"4:47
8."Subbotnik"4:47
9."Kings of the New World Order"4:02
10."Into the Void"2:39
11."Desert Dust"4:32

Personnel

Skids

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [11] 4
UK Albums (OCC) [12] 28

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