Chasing Shadows (album)

Chasing Shadows
Studio album by The Comsat Angels
Released	1986
Genre	Post-punk
Length	41:32
Label	Island
Producer	The Comsat Angels, Kevin Moloney
The Comsat Angels chronology
7 Day Weekend (1985) Chasing Shadows (1986) Fire on the Moon (1990)

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Chasing Shadows was released in 1986 on Island Records, but has yet to be reissued. It was The Comsat Angels' sixth album.

Having left Jive Records, the band had gotten a recording contract with Island Records aided by Robert Palmer, who confessed on a TV show to be a fan of the Comsat Angels.^[2] As a thank you, he was credited as "executive producer" on the album, and also provided vocals for the song "You'll Never Know."^[3]

The track "The Cutting Edge" was released as a single, with "Something's Got to Give" on the b-side,^[4] a song which was not included on the album, but later appeared as a demo track on the 2007 release To Before.^[5]

Chasing Shadows was regarded by the band as a departure from their last two albums, Land and 7 Day Weekend, which were produced by Jive Records. During a 1997 interview, frontman Steve Fellows agreed with a suggestion that Chasing Shadows offered his best vocals as an artist, adding: "I liked Rockfield, where we recorded Chasing Shadows cos it was very informal. We played mostly live, with vocals added later. Sleep No More was done live – the feel, capturing the moment. Obviously the Jive albums weren't done like that – assembled by machines in another room while we watched television and ate fruit." ^[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake.

1. "The Thought That Counts" – 6:03
2. "The Cutting Edge" – 5:06
3. "Under the Influence" – 4:22
4. "Carried Away" – 5:05
5. "You'll Never Know" – 4:57
6. "Lost Continent" – 5:01
7. "Flying Dreams" – 5:45
8. "Pray for Rain" – 5:01

Personnel

• Stephen Fellows - vocals, guitar
• Andy Peake - synthesizer, vocals
• Kevin Bacon - bass guitar
• Mik Glaisher - drums
• Robert Palmer - vocals on "You'll Never Know"

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