Through the Windowpane


Through the Windowpane is the debut full-length album from the British indie rock band Guillemots. It was released on 10 July 2006 in the United Kingdom and reached number 17 in the UK Album Chart. The album was highly anticipated following the strength of the singles "Trains to Brazil" and "Made-Up Lovesong #43". It was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize. The band released the final single from the album, a re-recording of "Annie, [Let's Not Wait]", on 15 January 2007.

Production

This album was produced by Fyfe Dangerfield with Chris Shaw, Nick Ingman, Bryan Mills and Joum "Turbo" Lucas. "Made-up Lovesong #43" is an alternative cut to the one featured on I Saw Such Things in My Sleep and From the Cliffs.

Song information

The following is a list of musicians who feature on the album :
"Little Bear"
  1. An orchestra of strings
"Made-Up Lovesong #43"
  1. Shingai Shoniwa
  2. Bryan Mills
"Trains to Brazil"
  1. Christopher Cundy
  2. Alex J Ward
  3. John Martin
  4. Gavin Broom
  5. Mr Trombone
  6. Ed Millett
"Redwings"
  1. Joan Wasser
  2. The Aveley & Newham Brass Band
"Come Away With Me"
  1. Fulvio Sigurta
"Through the Windowpane"
  1. Fulvio Sigurta
  2. Adam Noble
"If the World Ends"
  1. Mara Carlyle
  2. Another orchestra of strings
"We're Here"
  1. El Matthews B.P.S.C
  2. Mara Carlyle
  3. Yet more strings
"Blue Would Still Be Blue"
  1. Absolutely no-one but a bottle of wine
"Annie, Let's Not Wait"
  1. The insatiable charity shop samba band
  2. The children of mots school, guilleford
"And If All..."
  1. Mabel the ghost
"São Paulo"
  1. Fulvio Sigurta
  2. Mara Carlyle
  3. Steve Noble
  4. Alex J Ward
  5. Christopher Cundy
  6. A very big orchestra of string, wind, brass and percussion
Orchestra players were contracted by Isobel Griffiths.
Orchestra leader – Gavyn Wright.
Orchestra conducted by Nick Ingman.
Although the back album cover names track 5 as "Come Away With Me", the track is incorrectly tagged as "A Samba in the Snowy Rain" by iTunes.