Happiness in Magazines

by Graham Coxon

Happiness in Magazines cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 May 2004
  • Label: Transcopic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.54/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reunited with frequent Blur producer Stephen Street, the guitarist delivers his most commercially successful and accessible solo outing to date. 'Happiness in Magazines' largely abandons his earlier lo-fi experiments in favor of incredibly sharp, energetic power pop hooks and polished alternative rock structures.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, rhythmic, guitar-driven, punchy, DIY

Tracklist

  1. Spectacular
  2. No Good Time
  3. Girl Done Gone
  4. Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery
  5. All Over Me
  6. Freakin' Out
  7. People Of The Earth
  8. Hopeless Friend
  9. Are You Ready?
  10. Bottom Bunk
  11. Don't Be A Stranger
  12. Ribbons And Leaves

Credits

  • John Metcalfe - arranged by [horns], arranged by [strings], French horn stringsarranger
  • Angie Pollock - backing vocals, marimba
  • Marcus Bates - french horn
  • Phil Woods - french horn
  • Philip Eastop - french horn
  • Louis Vause - organ, piano, organ piano
  • The Duke Quartet - strings

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