hypersongs

Love Is Here

Their debut, recorded over six weeks at Rockfield, with a hidden track at the end of the last song.
Starsailor, 2001

Steve Osborne produced, with Mark Aubrey and the band on "Fever", Adrian Bushby engineered and Bruno Ellingham handled Pro Tools; Ray Staff mastered it at Whitfield Street. All songs are credited to Starsailor. "Coming Down" runs 14:30 and ends at 3:10, with a hidden track of the band humming from 13:30. Walsh told Drowned in Sound in August 2001 that the title was meant to be uplifting and positive, because everything around seemed to have quite a cynical edge, and that he wanted a really live sounding album with subtle bits of sonics over the top.

It reached 2 in the UK with over 58,000 in its first week, 2 in Scotland, 4 in Ireland and 129 on the Billboard 200. Singles were "Fever" (18), "Good Souls" (12), "Alcoholic" (10), "Lullaby" (36) and "Poor Misguided Fool" (23). Metacritic gave 72; AllMusic's MacKenzie Wilson 4 of 5, calling it a beautiful piece of work; NME 8 of 10; the Guardian 3; Pitchfork 5.7 and Rolling Stone 3.

Track listing

  1. Tie Up My Hands5:46
  2. Poor Misguided Fool3:51
  3. Alcoholic2:56
  4. Lullaby4:13
  5. Way to Fall4:30
  6. Fever4:03
  7. She Just Wept4:12
  8. Talk Her Down4:11
  9. Love Is Here4:41
  10. Good Souls4:53
  11. Coming Down14:30

More from Starsailor

Silence Is Easy (2003), On The Outside (2005), All The Plans (2009), All This Life (2017), Where The Wild Things Grow (2024)

Sources

  1. Love Is Here, Wikipedia
  2. We wanted to do something that could be perceived as hippyish, Drowned in Sound (2001-08-22)