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The album was critically acclaimed.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/5712268/Gwyneth-Herbert-All-The-Ghosts-CD-review.html|title= Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts, CD review |author=Andrew Perry|work= [[The Daily Telegraph]]|location= London|date= 4 July 2009|accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref> Writing for [[BBC Music]], John Eyles said: "Herbert's songs are rightly starting to draw comparisons with those of 60s Ray Davies and Paul McCartney. She has a fine sense of melody and her latest songs... create a cast of inner-city archetypes, each with an intriguing tale to tell. Many of the protagonists are society's losers or victims. Unlike Davies or McCartney, Herbert unfailingly sees the world from a woman's point of view. It is no coincidence that four of the track titles contain women's names".<ref name= "Eyles">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/djhj |title= Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts Review|author= John Eyles|work= [[BBC Music]]|date=8 July 2009 |accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref> |
The album was critically acclaimed.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/5712268/Gwyneth-Herbert-All-The-Ghosts-CD-review.html|title= Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts, CD review |author=Andrew Perry|work= [[The Daily Telegraph]]|location= London|date= 4 July 2009|accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref> Writing for [[BBC Music]], John Eyles said: "Herbert's songs are rightly starting to draw comparisons with those of 60s Ray Davies and Paul McCartney. She has a fine sense of melody and her latest songs... create a cast of inner-city archetypes, each with an intriguing tale to tell. Many of the protagonists are society's losers or victims. Unlike Davies or McCartney, Herbert unfailingly sees the world from a woman's point of view. It is no coincidence that four of the track titles contain women's names".<ref name= "Eyles">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/djhj |title= Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts Review|author= John Eyles|work= [[BBC Music]]|date=8 July 2009 |accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref> |
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[[John Fordham (jazz critic)|John Fordham]] in ''[[The Guardian]]'' said: "This fine album... [is] the truest to her distinctive muse, with its debts to Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell and Tom Waits, as much as to Billie Holiday or Nina Simone....Herbert's earlier jazz following perhaps won't find many familiar landmarks... but as an idiosyncratic singer-songwriter album, All the Ghosts will be on the year-end hitlists whatever its genre".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/28/herbert-all-ghosts-cd-review|title= Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts Review|author= [[John Fordham (jazz critic)|John Fordham]]|work= [[The Guardian]]| location= London|date=28 August 2009 |accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref> |
[[John Fordham (jazz critic)|John Fordham]] in ''[[The Guardian]]'' said: "This fine album... [is] the truest to her distinctive muse, with its debts to Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell and Tom Waits, as much as to Billie Holiday or Nina Simone....Herbert's earlier jazz following perhaps won't find many familiar landmarks... but as an idiosyncratic singer-songwriter album, All the Ghosts will be on the year-end hitlists whatever its genre".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/28/herbert-all-ghosts-cd-review|title= Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts Review|author= [[John Fordham (jazz critic)|John Fordham]]|work= [[The Guardian]]| location= London|date=28 August 2009 |accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref> |
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In a four-starred review for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', Andrew Perry said that Herbert "whips up beautiful, vaguely jazzy, keenly observed vignettes, mostly about outsider women. There’s a great cover of David Bowie’s Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide, too".<ref name="Perry">{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/5712268/Gwyneth-Herbert-All-The-Ghosts-CD-review.html | title=Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts, CD review | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | date=8 July 2009 | accessdate=20 September 2014 | author=Andrew Perry}}</ref> |
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All the Ghosts, the fifth album by British singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert, was released on 13 July 2009.
History
In early 2008, Herbert was commissioned by a collaborative project between Peter Gabriel and Bowers & Wilkins to record an acoustic album at Gabriel's Real World Studios.[1] The result of these sessions – Ten Lives – was released as a digital download in July 2008,[2] available only from the Bowers & Wilkins website as part of their Music Club.
Production and release
Remixed versions of these songs were to form the basis of All The Ghosts,[3] which was released by Naim Edge in July 2009 in Europe and in June 2010 in the United States. It was remastered for vinyl by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road Studios, London and reissued in LP format in 2010.[4]
Herbert wrote all the songs, except for a hidden, bonus track – a cover version of David Bowie's "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide".
All but two of the tracks were recorded and engineered by Robin Baynton at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire. Robert Harder, who had previously collaborated with Herbert as recording engineer of Between Me And The Wardrobe, recorded and engineered "Annie's Yellow Bag" and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" and some additional warbling on "So Worn Out" at his sound studio in London.
The CD cover artwork was by Keemo.
Reception
The album was critically acclaimed.[5] Writing for BBC Music, John Eyles said: "Herbert's songs are rightly starting to draw comparisons with those of 60s Ray Davies and Paul McCartney. She has a fine sense of melody and her latest songs... create a cast of inner-city archetypes, each with an intriguing tale to tell. Many of the protagonists are society's losers or victims. Unlike Davies or McCartney, Herbert unfailingly sees the world from a woman's point of view. It is no coincidence that four of the track titles contain women's names".[3]
John Fordham in The Guardian said: "This fine album... [is] the truest to her distinctive muse, with its debts to Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell and Tom Waits, as much as to Billie Holiday or Nina Simone....Herbert's earlier jazz following perhaps won't find many familiar landmarks... but as an idiosyncratic singer-songwriter album, All the Ghosts will be on the year-end hitlists whatever its genre".[6]
In a four-starred review for The Daily Telegraph, Andrew Perry said that Herbert "whips up beautiful, vaguely jazzy, keenly observed vignettes, mostly about outsider women. There’s a great cover of David Bowie’s Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide, too".[7]
Track listing
| No | Title | Lyrics and music | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "So Worn Out" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:36 | |
| 2 | "Annie's Yellow Bag" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:54 | |
| 3 | "Lorelei" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:38 | |
| 4 | "My Narrow Man" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:37 | |
| 5 | "Jane into a Beauty Queen" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:03 | |
| 6 | "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is" | Gwyneth Herbert | 4:42 | |
| 7 | "Natalyia" | Gwyneth Herbert | 2:58 | |
| 8 | "My Mini and Me" | Gwyneth Herbert | 4:34 | |
| 9 | "Some Days I Forget" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:40 | |
| 10 | "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" (hidden bonus track) | David Bowie | 3:42 | Total length = 37:00[8] |
Personnel
- Gwyneth Herbert – vocals, piano (on "My Narrow Man")
- Al Cherry – guitars
- Dave Price – percussion
- Sam Burgess – bass
- Steve Holness – piano and organ
- Jonathan Bierman – "droid" electronics on "So Worn Out"
References
- ^ Arwa Haider (25 August 2008). "Gwyneth Herbert's got some stories to tell". Metro. London. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ^ "Gwyneth Herbert 'Ten Lives'". Bowers & Wilkins. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
- ^ a b John Eyles (8 July 2009). "Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts Review". BBC Music. Retrieved 10 October 2011. Cite error: The named reference "Eyles" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Gwyneth Herbert – All The Ghosts". Discogs. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ Andrew Perry (4 July 2009). "Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts, CD review". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ^ John Fordham (28 August 2009). "Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts Review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ^ Andrew Perry (8 July 2009). "Gwyneth Herbert: All The Ghosts, CD review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "All the Ghosts". Naim Label. Retrieved 30 July 2013.