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Forever (Cranes album)

Forever is the second studio album by English rock band Cranes. It was released on 26 April 1993 by Dedicated Records.[4][5]

Critical reception

Melody Maker ranked Forever as the 24th best album of 1993.[8]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett stated that Forever saw Cranes building on the mixture of "elegant restraint" and "brusque power" that characterised their 1991 debut album Wings of Joy.[6] He noted that Forever "went to extremes in both directions – the quieter moments were even more hushed and shadowed, the louder points all that much more whip-snap cruel."[6] Trivia, but it may be a very rare example of an album whose titles, deliberate or not, form a sort of a sentence.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alison Shaw and Jim Shaw

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[9]

Cranes

  • Matt Cope – guitar
  • Mark Francombe – guitar, keyboards
  • Alison Shaw – vocals, bass
  • Jim Shaw – drums, guitar, keyboards, bass

Additional musicians

Production

  • Cranes – production, engineering
  • Giles Hall – engineering
  • Marcus Lindsay – engineering
  • Andy Wilkinson – engineering

Design

  • Miles Aldridge – photography
  • John Barnbrook – Cranes logo design
  • Albert Tupelo – design

Charts

References

  1. ^ Hughley, Marty (27 March 1994). "Listen to the Shimmering Cocteau Sound on the Band's Best Recordings". The Sunday Oregonian.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 27 March 1993. p. 27. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Music Week. 4 September 1993. p. 25. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  4. ^ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 24 April 1993. pp. 12, 21. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  5. ^ Forever (press advertisement). Dedicated Records. 1993. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ a b c Raggett, Ned. "Forever – Cranes". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Cranes: Forever". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 64. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Albums of the Year". Melody Maker. 25 December 1993 – 1 January 1994. p. 77.
  9. ^ Forever (liner notes). Cranes. Dedicated Records. 1993. DEDCD 009.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Independent: Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 15 May 1993. p. 22. Retrieved 28 May 2021.

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