Urban Hymns
by The Verve
- Type: Album
- Released: 30 September 1997
- Label: Hut
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:15:56
- Community rating: 4.05/5 from 14 ratings
Artists on this release: Simon Tong, Richard Ashcroft, Peter Salisbury, Nick McCabe, Jagger-Richards, Simon Jones
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Urban Hymns' captures The Verve at their most commercially successful and artistically sprawling, merging psychedelic space rock with deeply melodic Britpop. Richard Ashcroft's introspective, bittersweet songwriting is elevated by lush, heavily orchestrated chamber pop and sweeping acoustic ballads.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, drugs, atmospheric, orchestral, british
Tracklist
- Bitter Sweet Symphony (5:57)
- Sonnet (4:21)
- The Rolling People (7:01)
- The Drugs Don't Work (5:04)
- Catching The Butterfly (6:26)
- Neon Wilderness (2:37)
- Space And Time (5:36)
- Weeping Willow (4:49)
- Lucky Man (4:53)
- One Day (5:02)
- This Time (3:51)
- Velvet Morning (4:57)
- Come On / Deep Freeze - Hidden Track (15:14)
Credits
- The Verve - primary artist, producer [produced by], written-by
- Wil Malone - arranged by [strings arranged by], conductor [strings conducted by]
- Simon Jones - bass guitar
- Martin Catherall - design [assisted by], art direction
- Matthew Sankey - design [assisted by], art direction
- Brian Cannon - design, art direction, design/illustration
- Peter Salisbury - drums
- Gareth Ashton - engineer [assistant engineer]
- Jan "Stan" Kybert - engineer [assistant engineer]
- Lorraine Francis - engineer [assistant engineer]
- Simon Tong - guitar, keyboards
- Nick McCabe - lead guitar, written-by
- Jazz Summers - management
- Tim Parry - management
- Chris Floyd - photography by [additional interior photography by], photography
- John Horsley - photography by [additional interior photography by], photography
- Michael Spencer Jones - photography by [cover and interior photography by], photography
- Mel Wesson - programmed by [programming by]
- Paul Taylor - programmed by [programming by]
- Christopher Marc Potter - recorded by [all tracks recorded by], producer [additional production], mixed by [additional mixing by], producer [produced by]
- Microdot - sleeve
- Richard Ashcroft - vocals, guitar, lyrics by, written-by
- Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra - performer [performed by]
- Andrew Loog Oldham - producer [andrew loog oldham orchestra producec by]
- Youth - producer [produced by]
- Jagger-Richards - written-by