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Craig Armstrong scored the sweeping string arrangements for Massive Attack's Protection. It is therefore fitting that his debut album should see release through the Bristol band's Melankolic imprint. Nor should it surprise anyone that The Space Between Us is a veritable waterworks of strings, harps, and longing. To the classically trained Armstrong's credit, the album's resplendent romanticism never becomes soggy or overbearing. Even as the strings welter and arc in dizzy, heaven-bound spirals, a shadowing of spare downtempo electronics maintains an attractively lugubrious atmosphere. The Space Between Us is mostly instrumental, though former Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser graces "This Love" with a heart-stopping vocal turn. She blazes brilliantly against Armstrong's flowering backdrop, as does Paul Buchanan's Brian Ferry-like delivery of "Let's Go Out Tonight." Armstrong's gift for simple and sensitive melodicism surpasses the crass, tear-jerking histrionics in which many of his peers wallow. "Laura's Theme," "Glasgow," and Armstrong's original setting for Romeo and Juliet's oft-scored balcony scene prove him the equal of icons like Nino Rota and Francis Lai, and suggest that cinema is Armstrong's true calling. Sure enough, Armstrong hit the silver screen in 1999 with his score for Jake Scott's Plunkett & Macleane.
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Grantley Marshall, Composer - Andrew Vowles, Composer - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alan Douglas, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James Lloyd, Composer - Craig Armstrong, Composer, Programmer, MainArtist - Robert Del Naja, Composer - Cedric Napoleon, Composer - CURTIS HARMON, Composer - Richard T Norris, Programmer - Cameron Murray, Composer
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Marius de Vries, Producer - Elizabeth Fraser, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Armstrong, ComposerLyricist - Craig Armstrong, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Burns, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Grantley Marshall, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Vowles, ComposerLyricist - Andy Bradfield, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - NELLEE HOOPER, ComposerLyricist - Craig Armstrong, Producer, MainArtist - Robert Del Naja, ComposerLyricist - Nicolette Okoh, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Marius de Vries, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Bradfield, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Armstrong, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Ben Fenner, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Craig Armstrong, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Virgin Records
Richard Norris, Engineer, Programmer, StudioPersonnel - Andy Bradfield, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Armstrong, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Marius de Vries, ComposerLyricist - Andy Bradfield, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - NELLEE HOOPER, ComposerLyricist - Craig Armstrong, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Andy Bradfield, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Armstrong, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Richard T Norris, Producer
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Marius de Vries, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Bradfield, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Armstrong, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Ben Fenner, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Paul Buchanan, ComposerLyricist - Craig Armstrong, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Andy Bradfield, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Armstrong, Composer, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - Richard T Norris, Engineer, Programmer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Andy Bradfield, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Armstrong, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Richard T Norris, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Album review
Craig Armstrong scored the sweeping string arrangements for Massive Attack's Protection. It is therefore fitting that his debut album should see release through the Bristol band's Melankolic imprint. Nor should it surprise anyone that The Space Between Us is a veritable waterworks of strings, harps, and longing. To the classically trained Armstrong's credit, the album's resplendent romanticism never becomes soggy or overbearing. Even as the strings welter and arc in dizzy, heaven-bound spirals, a shadowing of spare downtempo electronics maintains an attractively lugubrious atmosphere. The Space Between Us is mostly instrumental, though former Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser graces "This Love" with a heart-stopping vocal turn. She blazes brilliantly against Armstrong's flowering backdrop, as does Paul Buchanan's Brian Ferry-like delivery of "Let's Go Out Tonight." Armstrong's gift for simple and sensitive melodicism surpasses the crass, tear-jerking histrionics in which many of his peers wallow. "Laura's Theme," "Glasgow," and Armstrong's original setting for Romeo and Juliet's oft-scored balcony scene prove him the equal of icons like Nino Rota and Francis Lai, and suggest that cinema is Armstrong's true calling. Sure enough, Armstrong hit the silver screen in 1999 with his score for Jake Scott's Plunkett & Macleane.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:23
- Main artists: Craig Armstrong
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Electronic
© 1998 Virgin Records Limited ℗ 1998 Virgin Records Limited
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