Tag Archives: White Lies

RX Bandits: Mandala

On July 28, 2009, “Sargent House” label released “Mandala”, the sixth Rx Bandits studio album. It was recorded 2008 – 2009, and was produced by Chris Fudurich.

Personnel:

  • Matt Embree – vocals, guitar
  • Steve Choi – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Joseph Troy – bass, backing vocals
  • Chris Tsagakis – drums

Track listing:

All lyrics by Matthew Embree, except where noted, all music by Matt Embree, Steve Choi, Joseph Troy and Chris Tsagakis.

  1. My Lonesome Only Friend
  2. It’s Only Another Parsec…
  3. Hope Is a Butterfly, No Net Its Captor, She Beats Her Wings and Softly Sings of Summer Scent and Children’s Laughter… (Virus of Silence)
  4. Hearts That Hanker for Mistake
  5. Mientras la Veo Soñar
  6. March of the Caterpillar
  7. White Lies
  8. Bury It Down Low
  9. Breakfast Cat
  10. Bled to Be Free – Matthew Embree, Joseph Troy
  11. Bring Our Children Home or Everything Is Nothing

White Lies: As I Try Not to Fall Apart

On February 18, 2022, “PIAS” label released “As I Try Not to Fall Apart”, the sixth White Lies studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Ed Buller, Claudius Mittendorfer, Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave and Jack Lawrence-Brown.

Personnel:

  • Harry McVeigh – lead vocal, guitar, keyboards
  • Charles Cave – bass guitar, keyboards
  • Jack Lawrence-Brown – drums, percussion
  • Richie Kennedy – engineer
  • James Mellor – engineer
  • Darren Lawson – engineer
  • Claudius Mittendorfer – mixing
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Claude Vause – studio assistant
  • Ed Farrell – studio assistant
  • Annelise Keestra – design

Track listing:

  1. Am I Really Going to Die
  2. As I Try Not to Fall Apart
  3. Breathe
  4. I Don’t Want to Go to Mars
  5. Step Outside
  6. Roll December
  7. Ragworm
  8. Blue Drift
  9. The End
  10. There Is No Cure for It

Gang of Four: Happy Now

On April 19, 2019, Gang of Four self-released “Happy Now”, band’s ninth and final studio album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Andy Gill, Ben Hillier, Catherine Mayer and Ross Orton.

Personnel:

  • Andy Gill – vocals, guitar, artwork
  • Thomas McNeice – bass guitar
  • Tobias Humble – drums
  • Jonny Finnigan – drums
  • Ben Hillier – bass guitar
  • Ross Orton – bass guitar
  • Jane Sasseen – vocal sampling
  • Amy Love – backing vocals
  • Rebeka Ubuntu – backing vocals
  • Rhys Oakes – programming
  • Catherine Mayer – mixing
  • Natalie Alexis Duncan – backing vocals
  • Lawrie Dunster – mastering
  • Leigh Smiler – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Andy Gill, except where noted:

  1. Toreador
  2. Alpha Male
  3. One True Friend
  4. Ivanka: ‘My Name’s on It
  5. Don’t Ask Me – Andy Gill, John “Gaoler” Sterry
  6. Change the Locks – Andy Gill, Catherine Mayer
  7. I’m a Liar
  8. White Lies – Andy Gill, Catherine Mayer
  9. Paper Thin – Andy Gill, Catherine Mayer
  10. Lucky

White Lies: Five

On February 1, 2019, “PIAS” label released “Five”, the fifth White Lies album. It was recorded in 2018 and was produced by Ed Buller and Flood.

Personnel:

  • Harry McVeigh – lead vocals, guitar
  • Charles Cave – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Jack Lawrence-Brown – drums
  • James Brown – engineer
  • Alan Moulder – mixing
  • Casey Roarty – design, art direction

Track listing:

  1. Time to Give
  2. Never Alone
  3. Finish Line
  4. Kick Me
  5. Tokyo
  6. Jo?
  7. Denial
  8. Believe It
  9. Fire and Wings

White Lies: Friends

On October 7, 2016, “BMG” label released “Friends”, the fourth White Lies studio album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Studio One” in London, ”The Distillery” in Bath, and was produced by Richard Wilkinson, Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave and Jack Lawrence-Brown.

Personnel:

  1. Harry McVeigh – lead vocals, guitar
  2. Charles Cave – bass guitar, backing vocals
  3. Jack Lawrence-Brown – drums
  4. Phil Parsons – engineer
  5. David Wrench, Marta Salogni – mixing
  6. John Davis – mastering
  7. Markus Bagå – art direction, design
  8. Big Active – creative director
  9. Steve Gullick – photography

Track listing:

  1. Take It Out on Me
  2. Morning in LA
  3. Hold Back Your Love
  4. Don’t Want to Feel It All
  5. Don’t Want to Feel It All
  6. Summer Didn’t Change a Thing
  7. Swing
  8. Come On
  9. Right Place
  10. Don’t Fall

Paolo Nutini: These Streets

On July 17, 2006, “Atlantic” label released “These Streets”, the debut Paolo Nutini studio album. It was recorded in 2006, and was produced by Ken Nelson, Jim Duguid, Tom Elmhirst and Andy Green. The album was certified 2 x Platinum in Ireland by “IRMA”, Platinum in Switzerland by “IFPI Switzerland” and 5 x Platinum in UK by “BPI”.

Personnel:

  • Paolo Nutini– lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Matt Benbrook – guitar, keyboards, programming
  • Eddie Harrison – guitar
  • Donny Little – acoustic guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
  • Ken Nelson– electric guitar, piano, Hammond organ
  • Dave Nally – piano
  • Michael McDaid – bass guitar
  • Michael Hunter – bass guitar, double bass
  • Jim Duguid – double bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, piano, strings
  • Vicky Hollywood – cello
  • The London Session Orchestra– strings
  • Will Malone– string arrangements
  • Pauline Taylor– backing vocals
  • Chris Athens – mastering
  • Ken Nelson– engineer, mixing, recording
  • Mark Pythian – engineer, mixing
  • Richard Wilkinson – engineer
  • Tom Elmhirst– mixing
  • Andy Green – mixing
  • Michael Brauer– mixing
  • Julian Wilmott – assistant
  • Brendan Moon – assistant
  • Jim Duguid – assistant
  • Richard Skinner – creative direction
  • Robert Gold – art direction
  • Dominic Leung – design
  • Paul Wesley Griggs – photography
  • Dean Chalkley– photography
  • Gregg Nadel – product management

Track listing:

  1. Jenny Don’t Be Hasty – Paolo Nutini, Jimmy Hogarth
  2. Last Request – Paolo Nutini, Jim Duguid, Matty Benbrook
  3. Rewind – Paolo Nutini, Jim Duguld
  4. Million Faces – Paolo Nutini, Marty Benbrook, Pauline Taylor
  5. These Streets – Paolo Nutini, Pete Wilkinson, Sarah Erasnus
  6. New Shoes – Paolo Nutini, Matty Benbrook, Jim Duguid
  7. White Lies – Paolo Nutini, John Fortis
  8. Loving You – Paolo Nutini, Jim Duguid, Chris Leonard
  9. Autumn – Paolo Nutini, Jim Duguid
  10. Alloway Grove (includes the acoustic version of “Last Request” as a hidden track) – Paolo Nutini, Rollo Armstrong

Stereophonics: Keep The Village Alive

On September 11, 2015, “Stylus Records” label released “Keep the Village Alive”, the ninth Stereophonics studio album. It was recorded 2011 – 2014, at “ICP Studios” in Brussels, Belgium, “Stylus Studios” in London, and was produced by Kelly Jones and Jim Lowe.

Personnel:

  • Kelly Jones- lead vocals, guitar, piano
  • Adam Zindani- guitar, backing vocals
  • Richard Jones- bass guitar
  • Jamie Morrison– drums
  • Sam Yapp, Javier Weyler– drums
  • Mikey Rowe – Wurly
  • Jim Lowe – additional Hammond, programming
  • Neil Cowley – additional piano
  • Tony Kirkham – additional piano, Hammond
  • Rosie Danvers – cello
  • Helen Hathorn – violin
  • Emma Owens – viola
  • David Arnoldwith Kelly Jones – orchestral arrangements
  • Nicholas Dodd – orchestration

Orchestra

  • John Bradbury – leader
  • Eos Chater, Dorina Markoff, John Bradbury, Johnathan Strange, Oli Langford, Christina Emanuel, Tom Pigott-Smith, Jackie Hartley, Peter Hanson, Ralph De Souza, Johnathan Rees, David Woodcock, Debbie Widdup, Natalia Bonner – violin section
  • Reiad Chibah, Julia Knight, Sue Dench, Nick Barr – viola section
  • Nick Cooper, Chris Worsey, Adrian Bradbury, Frank Schaefer – cello section
  • Pete Smith – tuba
  • Roger Argente – bass trombone
  • Andy Wood – tenor trombone
  • Phillip Eastop, Mike Murray, Corinne Bailey, Martin Owen – French horns
  • Daniel Newell, Jason Evans, Andy Cowley, Amos Miller – B♭ Trumpet
  • Eos Chater – violin
  • Gay-Yee Westerhoff – cello
  • Nick Barr – viola
  • Craig Silvey – mixing
  • Paul Edouard-Laurendeau – studio assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks written by Kelly Jones.

  1. C’est la Vie
  2. White Lies
  3. Sing Little Sister
  4. I Wanna Get Lost With You
  5. Song for the Summer
  6. Fight or Flight
  7. My Hero
  8. Sunny
  9. Into the World
  10. Mr and Mrs Smith

Grin: 1+1

In January 1972, “Spindizzy” label released “1+1”, the second Grin album. It was recorded in 1971, at “Wally Heider Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by David Briggs.

Personnel:

  • Nils Lofgren– vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Bob Gordon – vocals, bass
  • Bob Berberich – vocals, drums
  • Graham Nash– vocals
  • David Blumberg – orchestration
  • Wayne Kimbell – design
  • Ed Caraeff – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Nils Lofgren.

  1. White Lies
  2. Please Don’t Hide
  3. Slippery Fingers
  4. Moon Tears
  5. End Unkind
  6. Sometimes
  7. Lost a Number
  8. Hi, Hello Home
  9. Just a Poem
  10. Soft Fun