Mourning Sun
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| Released | 28 November 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2002–2005 | |||
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| Label | SPV | |||
| Producer | Carl McCoy | |||
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Mourning Sun, released on 28 November 2005, is the fourth studio album by English gothic rock band Fields of the Nephilim.[1] Vocalist Carl McCoy is the only original band member to be featured on this album and is the band's first studio album since Elizium which was released on 24 September 1990.
Background
[edit | edit source]McCoy along with John "Capachino" Carter (original Nefilim collaborator) spent eighteen months recording new demos in McCoy's mobile recording studio, dubbed "The Ice Cage" which took them to various places, including Norway. According to McCoy, Ice Cage sessions generated enough material for a double album, yet it was ultimately decided to narrow the track listing down to one disc.
While McCoy has suggested that additional musicians were recruited for the recording process,[2] the only identified persons involved in the writing and recording process to date are John "Capachino" Carter (a musician who also worked with McCoy on Zoon demos in the beginning of the 1990s) and McCoy's daughters Scarlett and Eden on backing vocals for the title track. McCoy has admitted to having applied preprogrammed drums on some of the tracks, stressing at the same time that most of the drum parts "were created by a real human being - Carter."[3]
Track listing
[edit | edit source]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Shroud (Exordium)" | 5:44 |
| 2. | "Straight to the Light" | 6:24 |
| 3. | "New Gold Dawn" | 7:58 |
| 4. | "Requiem (Le Veilleur silencieux)" | 7:21 |
| 5. | "Xiberia (Seasons in the Ice Cage)" | 7:33 |
| 6. | "She" | 9:26 |
| 7. | "Mourning Sun" | 10:35 |
| 8. | "In the Year 2525" (bonus item available only on the limited edition of the album) | 9:28 |
| Total length: | 62:69 | |
Reception
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Reception to the new album was generally positive, with even NME listing no less than six of the album's tracks amongst their Top 10 for the band's best songs to date.[8]
Personnel
[edit | edit source]- Carl McCoy - vocals, programming, producer
- John "Capachino" Carter - bass guitar, guitars, drums, keys & backing vocals
- Scarlett McCoy - backing vocals on "Mourning Sun"
- Eden McCoy - backing vocals on "Mourning Sun"
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "The people who worked on the demos of "Mourning Sun" are the same musicians who played on the final recordings. The tracks were very long at the beginning, and required important work on their structures and arrangements. In themselves, these things could be defended, no problem at all, but to integrate them into an album would have been too complicated." In D-Side, Issue 31, November–December 2005, interviewed by Emmanuel Hennequin
- ^ "Some of the percussion, situated at the bottom of the mix, was indeed programmed. Other parts were played on line. But for the most part, the rhythmic ones were created by a real human being", from the interview by Emmanuel Hennequin in D-Side magazine, Issue 31, November–December 2005
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Mourning SunLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
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