Forever (Cranes album)

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Forever
Studio album by
Cranes
Released26 April 1993 (1993-04-26)
StudioFirst Protocol (London)
GenreDream pop[1]
Length39:36
LabelDedicated
ProducerCranes
Cranes chronology
Wings of Joy
(1991) 		Forever
(1993) 		Loved
(1994)
Singles from Forever
  1. "Adrift"
    Released: 29 March 1993[2]
  2. "Jewel"
    Released: 6 September 1993[3]

Forever is the second studio album by English rock band Cranes. It was released on 26 April 1993 by Dedicated Records.[4][5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Christgau's Consumer Guide(2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention)[7]

Melody Maker ranked Forever as the 24th best album of 1993.[8]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett stated that Forever saw Cranes building on the mixture of "elegant restraint" and "brusque power" that characterised their 1991 debut album Wings of Joy.[6] He noted that Forever "went to extremes in both directions – the quieter moments were even more hushed and shadowed, the louder points all that much more whip-snap cruel."[6] Trivia, but it may be a very rare example of an album whose titles, deliberate or not, form a sort of a sentence.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alison Shaw and Jim Shaw

No.TitleLength
1."Everywhere"3:41
2."Cloudless"5:33
3."Jewel"3:05
4."Far Away"3:53
5."Adrift"5:09
6."Clear"3:43
7."Sun and Sky"3:34
8."And Ever"4:04
9."Golden"3:43
10."Rainbows"3:11
Total length:39:36
European edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."Shine Like Stars"4:32
Total length:44:08
UK limited CD edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."The Puppet"3:48
2."Shine Like Stars"4:32
Total length:8:20
UK limited LP edition and European limited CD edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."At Sea"3:19
2."Slide"2:50
3."Wings of Joy"2:04
4."Trumpet Song"1:48
Total length:10:01

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[9]

Cranes

  • Matt Cope – guitar
  • Mark Francombe – guitar, keyboards
  • Alison Shaw – vocals, bass
  • Jim Shaw – drums, guitar, keyboards, bass

Additional musicians

Production

  • Cranes – production, engineering
  • Giles Hall – engineering
  • Marcus Lindsay – engineering
  • Andy Wilkinson – engineering

Design

  • Miles Aldridge – photography
  • John Barnbrook – Cranes logo design
  • Albert Tupelo – design

Charts

Chart (1993) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC)[10] 40
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[11] 4

References

  1. ^ Hughley, Marty (27 March 1994). "Listen to the Shimmering Cocteau Sound on the Band's Best Recordings". The Sunday Oregonian.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 27 March 1993. p. 27. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Music Week. 4 September 1993. p. 25. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  4. ^ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 24 April 1993. pp. 12, 21. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  5. ^ Forever (press advertisement). Dedicated Records. 1993. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ a b c Raggett, Ned. "Forever – Cranes". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Cranes: Forever". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 64. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Albums of the Year". Melody Maker. 25 December 1993 – 1 January 1994. p. 77.
  9. ^ Forever (liner notes). Cranes. Dedicated Records. 1993. DEDCD 009.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Independent: Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 15 May 1993. p. 22. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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