Brett Anderson (album)

Brett Anderson
Studio album by Brett Anderson
Released	26 March 2007
Recorded	at The Pink Room and Kore between winter '05 and spring '06
Genre	Indie rock
Length	38:26
Label	Drowned in Sound Recordings
Producer	Brett Anderson and Fred Ball
Brett Anderson chronology
Brett Anderson (2007) Live in London (2007)Live in London2007

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	51/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
BBC	(favourable) link
Daily Telegraph	(unfavourable) link
Evening Standard	link
The Guardian	link
IndieLondon	link
The Modern Music	8.6/10 link
NME	4/10 link
Pitchfork	2.9/10 link
Uncut Magazine	link

Brett Anderson is the first solo release from Suede and The Tears frontman Brett Anderson.

Background

In May 2006, Anderson announced sketchy details for the album. He told NME that the title will be 'Brett Anderson' since "...that's my name, you see." The album was recorded whilst Anderson was recording The Tears' debut album alongside Bernard Butler.

Anderson has described the record as being "...quite orchestrated, lots of string loops, that sort of thing. I guess there's a Scott Walker feel to it. I'm very proud of it; it's a very exciting record for me."

The album sees Anderson taking on many more instruments than ever before. "I've played a lot of electric guitar on it; I've written a lot of the electric guitar parts. It's my baby and I've obviously been pretty obsessed with it."

The cover was designed by Peter Saville, with photography by Wolfgang Tillmans.

Reception

The album received mixed reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 51 out of 100, which indicates "mixed or average reviews" based on 11 reviews.^[1] The album was not a commercial success, charting at no. 54 on the UK Albums Chart.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Brett Anderson and Fred Ball except where noted.

1. "Love Is Dead" – 3:31
2. "One Lazy Morning" – 3:20
3. "Dust and Rain" – 3:01
4. "Intimacy" (Anderson) – 2:48
5. "To the Winter" – 3:57
6. "Scorpio Rising" (Anderson) – 4:01
7. "The Infinite Kiss" – 4:08
8. "Colour of the Night" – 2:18
9. "The More We Possess the Less We Own of Ourselves" – 3:33
10. "Ebony" (Anderson) – 2:32
11. "Song for My Father" – 5:17

Personnel

• Fred Ball – Keyboards, Programming, Producer, String Arrangements
• Jim Dare – Guitars
• Bastian Juel – Bass
• Kristoffer Sonne – Drums
• The Dirty Pretty Strings – Strings
• Jim Hunt – Flute

Technical

• Bunt Stafford Clark – Mastering
• Steve Fitzmaurice – Mixing
• Dyre Gormsen – Engineer
• Peter Saville – Artwork
• Howard Wakefield – Artwork

References