Somewhere Deep in the Night
Somewhere Deep in the Night is the seventh studio album by the British pop group Swing Out Sister. Produced by longtime collaborator Paul Staveley O'Duffy, the album was first released in Japan in 2001, with a European release the following year.
Composition
Since the group's second album, 1989's Kaleidoscope World, the group has consisted of Corinne Drewery on lead vocals and multi-instrumentalist Andy Connell. On this album, Connell provides keyboards, synthesizer, guitar and accordion. Other contributing musicians on the album include Tim Cansfield, Nigel Hitchcock, Noel Langley, and Jody Linscott. In addition to Connell, other backing vocalists include Beverley Skeete, Dee Lewis, Gina Foster and Stephanie de Sykes.The track Alpine Crossing is a reinterpretation of the 1972 track Hot Heels by Barbara Moore and De Wolfe Music.
Critical reception
gave Somewhere Deep in the Night four stars out of a possible five, stating that the album "is a very strong album from the duo, packed full of sweeping, melancholy tunes". Reviewer Nick Dedina continues by describing how the album "...uses its sumptuous, melodramatic arrangements to sugar rather bleak songs of confusion and lost love...rather than simply dazzle the listener with retro-schmaltz."Track listing
- "Through the Sky" - 3:55
- "Will We Find Love?" - 3:55
- "Somewhere Deep in the Night" - 4:29
- "The Vital Thing" - 2:48
- "What Kind of Fool Are You?" - 4:04
- "Suspended in Time" - 1:39
- "Alpine Crossing" - 3:07
- "Fool Tag" - 0:27
- "Where the Hell Did I Go Wrong?" - 4:10
- "Non E Vero Ma Ci Credo" - 4:08
- "Touch Me Now" - 3:56
- "The Vital Thing - Take B" - 2:27
- "Where Do I Go?" - 4:23
- "Now Listen to Me" - 3:30
Personnel
- Andy Connell – acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers, accordion, guitars, Fender bass, vibraphone, backing vocals
- Corinne Drewery – lead vocals
- Paul Staveley O'Duffy – computer and rhythm programming, backing vocals
- Tim Cansfield – guitars, backing vocals
- Matt Becker – guitars
- Anton Drewery – guitars
- Jody Linscott – percussion, vocal ensemble
- Nigel Hitchcock – tenor saxophone
- Noel Langley – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Stephanie de Sykes – backing vocals
- Gina Foster – backing vocals
- Dee Lewis – backing vocals
- Beverley Skeete – backing vocals
- Myke Wilson – scat
- Yasmin Sarkic – voice
- Gersende Giorgio – voice
- Tim Cansfield, Andy Connell, Corinne Drewery, Kaysi Foster, Coco Linscott, Kachina Linscott-Dechert, Paul Staveley O'Duffy and Ayu Sekioka
Production
- Paul Staveley O'Duffy – producer, engineer
- James Martin – photography
- Swing Out Sister – design
- The Red Room – design
- Bennett Freed – management
- Geoff Kite – management