Catherine Wheel / Adam And Eve
Artist Catherine Wheel
Album Title: Adam And Eve
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative
Format CD
Released 08/20/1997
Label Mercury Records
Catalog No 314 534 864-2
Bar Code No 7 31453 48642 3
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Untitled (1:23)
2. Future Boy (5:15)
3. Delicious (5:10)
4. Broken Nose (5:20)
5. Phantom Of The American Mother (5:43)
6. Ma Solituda (5:12)
7. Satellite (5:14)
8. Thunderbird (6:39)
9. Here Comes The Fat Controller (5:31)
10. Goodbye (7:02)
11. For Dreaming (7:15)
12. Untitled (3:00)
Date Acquired 11/17/2016
Personal Rating
Acquired from Academy Records (Amazon)
Purchase Price 8.99

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Notes

Thanks to Nick Hornby for his book High Fidelity
Mastered at the Mastering Lab
Managed for Sanctuary Music Management Limited
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (PRS)
Admin. by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Made in U.S.A.
PRS/ASCAP
? 1997 Mercury Records.
© 1997 Catherine Wheel.
Manufactured and marketed by Mercury Records, a PolyGram Company.
Printed in U.S.A.
Track 1 and 12 isn't mentioned on the tracklist.
Artwork [With] – Julien Mills, Sam Brooks
Bass – Dave Hawes
Cello, Arranged By [String] – Audrey Riley
Composed By – Catherine Wheel
Coordinator [A&r Coordination By] – Bas Hartong
Cover – Peter Curzon, Storm Thorgerson
Drums, Percussion – Neil Sims
Edited By [Digital] – Anthony Lycenko, Darren Grahn
Guitar – Brian Futter
Management [Managed By] – Andy Taylor, Merck Mercuriadis, Rob Smallwood
Management [Manager] – Merck Mercuriadis
Mastered By – Doug Sax
Mixed By [Warehouse Studios Vancouver Assisted By] – Darren Grahn
Organ, Piano – Tim Friese-Greene
Other [Agents] – Fair Warning/ICM London, Steve Ferguson The Agancy New York
Other [Femme Fatale] – Cecelie Thomsen
Other [Heartbeat] – Finn Sims
Percussion [Additional] – Martin Ditcham
Photography By – Tony May
Producer – Bob Ezrin, GGGarth, Rob Dickinson
Recorded By [Air Studios London Assisted By] – Jon Bailey
Recorded By [Machine Works Studios Vancouver Recorded By] – Gary Winger
Recorded By [Metropolis Studios London Assistance And Additional Recording By] – Anthony Lycenko
Recorded By, Mixed By – Randy Staub
Vibraphone, Harmonica, Glockenspiel, Piano – Dick Robinson
Vocals, Guitar – Rob Dickinson

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Analyzed: Catherine Wheel / Adam and Eve
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR12      -6.31 dB   -22.72 dB      1:24 01-[untitled]
DR10        0.00 dB   -14.87 dB      5:15 02-Future Boy
DR10        0.00 dB   -12.12 dB      5:10 03-Delicious
DR9          0.00 dB   -10.08 dB      5:21 04-Broken Nose
DR9          0.00 dB   -11.74 dB      5:44 05-Phantom of the American Mother
DR8          0.00 dB   -11.53 dB      5:13 06-Ma Solituda
DR9          0.00 dB   -10.63 dB      5:14 07-Satellite
DR10        0.00 dB   -12.59 dB      6:39 08-Thunderbird
DR9          0.00 dB   -10.75 dB      5:32 09-Here Comes the Fat Controller
DR9          0.00 dB   -11.80 dB      7:02 10-Goodbye
DR9          0.00 dB   -12.56 dB      7:15 11-For Dreaming
DR12      -3.61 dB   -21.43 dB      3:00 12-[untitled]
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Number of tracks:  12
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           544 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
AllMusic Review by Jack Rabid:

Even by Catherine Wheel's lofty standards, Adam and Eve is boldly realized. It's infused with unusual moods, textures, and ambitious touches -- such as built-up volume shifts, or keyboards and acoustic guitars that suggest endless wide-open spaces. The album is also an impressive thematic whole formed by two untitled tracks that start and finish the LP, with gentle connectors between songs in which chords of one tune drift quietly into the start of the next. In markedly lowering the volume throughout large passages of the album, they shine the spotlight on singer/guitarist Rob Dickinson, who alternates his smooth, cool, meditative cooing with a more yearning, emotional, arresting wail. Other guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes, and drummer Neil Sims negotiate a maze of hues and tints, from peaceful, pretty solitude to the most desperate pathos. 1996's release of Like Cats and Dogs (a collection culled from the group's more ponderous, subdued, nearly ambient B-sides) precipitated the album's more restrained approach and more ambitious scope. More importantly, like much of Like Cats and Dogs, the LP is again greatly influenced by Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock. So it's significant that Talk Talk's Tim Friese-Greene, who'd already produced Ferment and played on Happy Days, was called in again to play keyboards and ended up playing a major role in the album's sound, along with vaunted Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin and Garth Richardson. The more moody, reflective qualities that resulted are evident throughout, in the low-rumbling crash of "Broken Nose," the twinkling tones of "Ma Solituda," the near-Pink Floyd pastoral sweep of "Future Boy," the whimsical, throbbing ecstasy of "Delicious" and "Satellite," and the penultimate epic space-floaters, "Goodbye" and "For Dreaming." To put it bluntly, Adam and Eve is brilliant -- as playful as it is gripping, and as sweet as it is contentious.
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