Wild and Lonely
| Wild and Lonely | ||||
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| Studio album by The Associates | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Label | Circa | |||
| Producer | Julian Mendelsohn | |||
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Wild and Lonely is the fourth studio album by Scottish post-punk/new wave band The Associates, released in 1990 by record label Circa.
Release
Wild and Lonely was released in 1990 by record label Circa. It reached number 71 in the UK Albums Chart.
Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | D+[2] |
Wild and Lonely was poorly received by critics.
Ira Robbins, writing for Entertainment Weekly, wrote "Scotland's Associates have ended a lengthy recording hiatus with a glossy, shallow album that sounds seriously out of step. Where most high-tech dance-pop now follows the soothing groove of Soul II Soul, the Associates — more precisely, singer-songwriter Billy Mackenzie plus a load of session players — cling to a dramatic delivery and chattering, generally overloaded arrangements."[2] Ned Raggett of AllMusic wrote, "There's some of the same relative musical ennui, where everything is perfectly pleasant but rarely striking. Even more distressing, more than once, said music is little more than late-'80s glossy yup-funk that is singularly unappealing in its boredom, often saved only by Mackenzie's performing bravura and nice production touches [...] Happily, the worse moments don't define the album, and when at its best, Wild and Lonely serves up a fine selection of new Mackenzie classics."[1]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Billy MacKenzie
| Side A | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Fire to Ice" | |
| 2. | "Fever" | |
| 3. | "People We Meet" | |
| 4. | "Just Can't Say Goodbye" | |
| 5. | "Calling All Around the World" | |
| Side B | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Where There's Love" | |
| 2. | "Something's Got to Give" | |
| 3. | "Strasbourg Square" | |
| 4. | "Ever Since That Day" | |
| 5. | "Wild and Lonely" | |
Personnel
- Billy MacKenzie - vocals, sleeve design
- J.J. Belle, Mark Rutherford, Chester Kamen - guitar
- Guy Pratt, Kevin Hutchison - bass
- Mimi Izumi Kobayashi - keyboards
- Blair Booth - keyboards, strings, programming, vocals
- Gary Maughan - keyboards, programming
- Philipp Erb - keyboards, strings, programming
- L. Howard Hughes - piano, strings
- Danny Cummings, Moritz von Oswald - percussion
- Malcolm Duncan, Neil Sidwell - saxophone
- Martin Drover - trumpet
- Lennie Costa - bouzouki
- Anne Dudley, Gavyn Wright - strings
- Carol Kenyon, Carroll Thompson, Juliet Roberts - backing vocals
References
- 1 2 Raggett, Ned. "Wild and Lonely – The Associates | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- 1 2 Robbins, Ira (28 September 1990). "[Wild and Lonely review]". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
External links
- Wild and Lonely at Discogs (list of releases)