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One of many artists discovered via MySpace before it turned into an online wasteland, Salford singer/songwriter Ren Harvieu was about to release her major-label debut album, record a duet with Nas, and perform at Glastonbury when she broke her back following a freak accident on a night out. It's the kind of tragic back story that would have been milked for all it was worth had she entered The X-Factor. But despite a lengthy stay in hospital recuperating, where she was told she may never walk again and that her music career may have been over before it began, her long-awaited first studio effort, Through the Night, doesn't allude at all to such trials and tribulations. Instead, Harvieu focuses on melodramatic tales of love and heartbreak on a hugely sumptuous record which harks back to the lush orchestral pop of the '60s. Written by a who's-who of mid-table indie rockers including the Zutons' Dave McCabe, the Stands' Howie Payne and Chicago duo the Redwalls, there's a big, brassy, Shirley Bassey-esque Bond theme ("Tonight"), a yearning, Dusty Springfield-ish torch song ("Do Right by Me"), and a Bacharach-inspired lounge pop number (the title track), all of which are bathed in appropriately lavish strings courtesy of Duffy producer Jimmy Hogarth. If all this sounds a little derivative, that's because it is. Harvieu's soaring, seductive tones recall, at various points, Norah Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Karen Carpenter, and Cilla Black, while there are definite shades of Lana Del Rey's noir-ish Americana on "Forever in Blue" and Rumer on the intimate country-soul of "Holding On." But Through the Night's suitably grandiose homage to the first wave of British pop divas is so authentic, and recorded with such affection, that it doesn't really matter.
© Jon O'Brien /TiVo
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Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sam Dixon, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Petr Pycha, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Harcourt, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Martin Slattery, Co-Arranger, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jules Buckley, Horn Arranger, Orchestra Leader, Conductor/Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, MainArtist - Dave McAbe, ComposerLyricist - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sam Dixon, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jeremy Stacey, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Petr Pycha, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howard Payne, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jules Buckley, Conductor/Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, MainArtist - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Arnulf Lindner, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Neary, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Petr Pycha, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howard Payne, ComposerLyricist - Jules Buckley, Conductor/Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, MainArtist - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Drums, Engineer, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ed Harcourt, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrea Wright, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howard Payne, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Martin Slattery, Hammond Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Jules Buckley, Orchestra Leader, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer - Candie Payne, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Arnulf Lindner, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Petr Pycha, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Harcourt, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Buckley, Orchestra Leader, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Christopher O'Neill, ComposerLyricist - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sam Dixon, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Pierre-Olivier Margerand, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Petr Pycha, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Harcourt, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howard Payne, ComposerLyricist - Martin Slattery, Co-Arranger, Hammond Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Jules Buckley, Co-Arranger, Conductor/Piano, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, MainArtist - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Harrison, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Pierre-Olivier Margerand, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Petr Pycha, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Harcourt, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Martin Slattery, Hammond Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Jules Buckley, Conductor/Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher O'Neill, ComposerLyricist - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Pierre-Olivier Margerand, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ren Harvieu, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kevin Cormac, Bass, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sam Dixon, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Pierre-Olivier Margerand, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ed Harcourt, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Howard Payne, ComposerLyricist - Martin Slattery, Co-Arranger, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, MainArtist
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Comber, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Petr Pycha, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sean Julliard, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Holzner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Martin Slattery, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jules Buckley, Orchestra Leader, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Nicholls, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, MainArtist - Logan Baren, ComposerLyricist - Justin Baren, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Langer, ComposerLyricist - FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Orchestra/Member, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Steve Morris, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Hogarth, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Richard George, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Worsey, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Burdge, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Cousins, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Everton Nelson, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Humphries, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Isobel Griffiths, Orchestra Contractor, AssociatedPerformer - Sam Dixon, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Cenzo Townshend, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony Pleeth, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Lale, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Tombling, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Emlyn Singleton, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Patrick Kiernan, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Pigott-Smith, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Boguslaw Kostecki, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce White, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Evans-Jones, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Vicci Wardman, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Harcourt, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Felix Bloxsom, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Cameron Craig, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jules Buckley, Conductor/Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ren Harvieu, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Album review
One of many artists discovered via MySpace before it turned into an online wasteland, Salford singer/songwriter Ren Harvieu was about to release her major-label debut album, record a duet with Nas, and perform at Glastonbury when she broke her back following a freak accident on a night out. It's the kind of tragic back story that would have been milked for all it was worth had she entered The X-Factor. But despite a lengthy stay in hospital recuperating, where she was told she may never walk again and that her music career may have been over before it began, her long-awaited first studio effort, Through the Night, doesn't allude at all to such trials and tribulations. Instead, Harvieu focuses on melodramatic tales of love and heartbreak on a hugely sumptuous record which harks back to the lush orchestral pop of the '60s. Written by a who's-who of mid-table indie rockers including the Zutons' Dave McCabe, the Stands' Howie Payne and Chicago duo the Redwalls, there's a big, brassy, Shirley Bassey-esque Bond theme ("Tonight"), a yearning, Dusty Springfield-ish torch song ("Do Right by Me"), and a Bacharach-inspired lounge pop number (the title track), all of which are bathed in appropriately lavish strings courtesy of Duffy producer Jimmy Hogarth. If all this sounds a little derivative, that's because it is. Harvieu's soaring, seductive tones recall, at various points, Norah Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Karen Carpenter, and Cilla Black, while there are definite shades of Lana Del Rey's noir-ish Americana on "Forever in Blue" and Rumer on the intimate country-soul of "Holding On." But Through the Night's suitably grandiose homage to the first wave of British pop divas is so authentic, and recorded with such affection, that it doesn't really matter.
© Jon O'Brien /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:06
- Main artists: Ren Harvieu
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal-Island Records Ltd.
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2012 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited ℗ 2012 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
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