Friends and Lovers
by Bernard Butler
- Type: Album
- Released: 25 October 1999
- Label: Creation Records
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 50:02
- Community rating: 2.91/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The former Suede guitarist's second solo album is a more direct guitar-pop record than his debut, written after his departure from the band he co-founded. It appeared in Creation Records' final year of operation.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, dreamy, melodic, lo-fi, reflective
Tracklist
- Friends & Lovers (4:13)
- I'd Do It Again If I Could (3:26)
- Cocoon (4:17)
- Smile (4:02)
- You Must Go On (3:22)
- No Easy Way Out (4:26)
- Everyone I Know Is Falling Apart (4:18)
- What Happened To Me (3:18)
- Let's Go Away (4:03)
- Precious (3:54)
- Has Your Mind Got Away? (8:12)
- You'll Feel It When You're Mine (2:31)
Credits
- The Terence Miles Trio - backing vocals, harmony vocals
- Makoto Sakamoto - drums, percussion
- Noel Thompson - handclaps [applause]
- Davies Autos N8 - other [car horn courtesy of]
- Billy McGhee - double bass [upright bass]
- Yacht Associates - design, art direction
- George Shilling - engineer, management [aided and abetted by]
- Jasper Goodall - illustration, management [aided and abetted by]
- Andy Wallace - management [aided and abetted by], mixed by
- Tom Sheehan - management [aided and abetted by], photography by [bb portrait in wooland images courtesy of an original by]
- Alan McGee - management [aided and abetted by]
- Ann Harrison - management [aided and abetted by]
- Bronwin Hayes - management [aided and abetted by]
- Chris Thomson - management [aided and abetted by]
- Craig Peacock - management [aided and abetted by]
- Emma Greengrass - management [aided and abetted by]
- Frank Dixon - management [aided and abetted by]
- Johnny Hopkins - management [aided and abetted by]
- Kleanthi Boutis - management [aided and abetted by]
- Mark Bowen - management [aided and abetted by]
- Richard Bull - management [aided and abetted by]
- Richard Green - management [aided and abetted by]
- Tones Samson - management [aided and abetted by]
- Vanessa Cotton - management [aided and abetted by]
- Howie Weinberg - mastered by
- Steve Sisco - mixed by [mix assisted by]
- Albert Pinheiro - recorded by [assistant]
- Boris Aldridge - recorded by [assistant]
- Chris Danby - recorded by [assistant]
- Ryan Tully - recorded by [assistant]
- Valerie Lambour - recorded by [assistant]
- Bill Puplitt - technician [guitars doctored by]
- Wiff - technician [guitars driven by]
- Paul Rogers - technician [guitars strung by]