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Album: MINI ALBUM. Label: HUT RECORDINGS. Formats: UK Cat #: HUTUS1 : CD Album Released 07/12/92 "'The Verve EP' should maybe carry a warning for those hooked on goal-oriented songs proper, because it is (beautifully) pointless. These tunes are more pieces of dreamy foreplay in the half-light, no eye to their own future and determinedly open-ended. On this evidence, Verve's journey to nowhere has only just begun." - MELODY MAKER "This charts the progress of a band who've torn up the blueprint and decided to go at it utterly arse-about-face. They are one of the few bands who still believe that the space between your ears is infinite, that nothing is impossible, that it's all within our reach. Sometimes they soar. Sometimes they fly too high or dive too low and then they crash and burn. This is no easy ride but it's a hell of an adventure, arisk well worth taking." - NME
Album Release
Bootleg Album: released on clear blue vinyl only. Only 1000 copies pressed. All recorded Live in New York and London 1992. Released in US only. Unfortunately, 300 copies were ruined in transit between the UK and the US, making Voyager 1 even more rare.
Album Release
Album: Label: HUT RECORDINGS. UK Chart : 27. Formats: UK Cat #: HUTLP10 : 12" LP Released 21/06/93 UK Cat #: HUTMC10 : Single Play Cassette Released 21/06/93 UK Cat #: CDHUT10 : CD Album Released 21/06/93 "This album is a big step, but there are a thousand million to go." "Eight of the songs were jams when we went into the studio. We made 'em up as we were there, but time was taken to make it special, for it to work on all kinds of levels, whether you be straight or stoned or whatever". - RICHARD ASHCROFT "Like the sea, there's no denying Verve's awesome power. These waves either lap at your feet or surge right around you. Don't let this be one of the bands that got away." - THE LIST "The album is impressive because the whle group have stuck to the thoroughly uncommercial guns of their earlier work and released a rock record which is hugely out of synchronization with these fake-hedonistic, star-fucking times." - THE 3RD DEGREE "If you texture and torture the sound to this degree, you begin to convey the impression that you don't believe in the songs; and while there are some rather flimsy wails here, there are also some more robust rockers which don't benefit from carrying this much sonic baggage." - SUNDAY TIMES "I had mixed feelings about this album initially. Then, after a few listens, I was hooked. Next time you're stuck in traffic, pop in 'A Storm In Heaven'. I promise you'll be transported to a better place" - MAGNET (PHILADELPHIA, PA) "Ultimately, their undoing may be that their fame rests entirely upon journalistic whim rather than any groundswell of popular support." - Q
*Produced & mixed by John Leckie *Engineered & programmed by John Cornfield *Horns arranged by Kick Horns (Simon Clarke, Time Sanders, and Roddy Lorimer) *Recorded at The Sawmills Studio, Cornwall *Published by Virgin Music Publishers Ltd. *Sleeve concept, design & art direction
by Brian Cannon for microdot
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Album: B SIDES & OUTTAKES. Label: VERNON YARD / HUT RECORDINGS. Formats: UK Cat #: CDHUT18 : CD Album Released 17/05/94 The Verve write songs that can be compressed or stretched without losing their essential depth and expanse. These versions are almost oceanic: even, rolling layers of sound that pull you in and hold you under for a long time. The acoustic version of "Butterfly" is the standout cut here, played with a jug band's sense of rhythm and an orchestra's capacity for grandeur. The rest follow suit - elegant and interchangeable, but remarkable enough to ensure that this band won't wash away soon." - TWIN CITIES READER "A collection of bad Verve songs would be impossible." - INDIE FILE (CHARLOTTE, NC) "Like it's parent album (ASIH), you'll either love 'No Come Down' for its other-worldly arrogance or hate it for its self-indulgence. Either way, Verve's strength lies in their ability to recreate in the studio the atmosphere inherent at their gigs - a live take of 'Gravity Grave' sounds anything but out of place." - VOX "Hazy, phased psychedelic rock at its finest. A selection of echoed-out acoustic versions and firing US remixes from the Wigan weirdos." - I-D
*Tracks 1,5 Produced by The Verve.
Engineered by Nick Darside
*All tracks written by Simon Jones, Peter
Salisbury, Nick McCabe & Richard Ashcroft
*Sleeve Concept, Design & Art by Brian
Cannon for Microdot
Album Release Album: Label: HUT RECORDINGS. UK Chart :
13. Formats: UK Cat #: HUTLP27 : 2 x 12" LPs Released 03/07/95 UK Cat #:
HUTMC27 : Single Play Cassette Released 03/07/95 UK Cat #: CDHUT27 : CD Album
Released 03/07/95 UK Cat #: DGHUT27 : CD Album Released 03/07/95 - Deleted
04/07/96 "Since the last album we have spent two years playing music
every night and that means you get a lot better." -
NICK McCABE "This record's got northern soul in it, stuck in a Welsh
valley. We recorded twice as much as we needed. It wasn't that the songs
weren't good, we just didn't get the magic when we recorded them…..we missed
two or three of the best songs so we'll go back and do them again. Get 'em
right." - PETER
SALISBURY "Lyrically the whole album is me asking myself who the fuck
am I? Am I the guy in 'This Is Music', standing tall in the world with these
huge guitars around him like the king of rock 'n' roll, or am I the guy in 'A
Northern Soul' who's wasted and desperate, or am I the guy in 'On Your Own',
who's in between life and death, or am I the guy in' Life's An Ocean'
imagining the future and buying feelings from a vending machine, am I this
future shock guy? But I'm all of them, you see. It's dangerous to fracture
your personality too much, but that's what it was." -
RICHARD ASHCROFT
"On this triumphant second album, these four Wigan lads
return in a swirling, tortured, cloud of Doors-ish psychedelia. Richard
Ashcroft's soft, druggy drawl twists round spacey guitar lines and blurred
distortion, while the pain of the gentle 'On Your Own' disturbs and sticks in
your mind." -
GQ "As befits their recent titular addition - the US jazz
label Verve objected to the un-prefixed moniker - 'The' Verve are suddenly
the definite article." -
Q "Global domination? Maybe next time, chaps. Maybe next
time…." - NME
"…..'Soul' doesn't flow with the seamless cadences that
marked their debut, especially earlier on. The thick strings that flush out
the edges on several tracks are nowhere near as cool as the horn trio that
supplied an adjunct environment on 'Storm'. Nonetheless, with music that can
drift from puffy clouds and cool breezes to thunderclaps and stirring gusts,
'Soul' only falls one breath short of aural ecstasy." -
SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY
"…..the way the whole lot hangs together as a complete
journey puts 'A Northern Soul' ahead of most albums you'll hear this
year…..it'll still be blazing your synapses for many months to come." -
SELECT
Album Release
Album: Label: HUT RECORDINGS. Formats: UK Cat #: CDPHUT45 : CD Album (Promo) Released UK Cat #: CDHUT45 : CD Album Released 29/09/97 UK Cat #: HUTMC45 : Single Play Cassette Released 29/09/97 UK Cat #: HUTLP45 : 2 x 12" LPs Released 29/09/97 UK Cat #: HUTLPX45 : 2 x 12" LPs Released A limited edition of 5000 vinyl copies were released in the UK with the brown mailer sleeve illustrated. "HISTORY HAS A PLACE FOR US. IT MAY TAKE THREE ALBUMS BUT WE WILL BE THERE." - RICHARD ASHCROFT '93 "If there's one person affecting the disaffected right now, it's Richard Ashcroft. Band of the year. Number one with a mullet." - THE FACE "The Verve remain one of those bands for whom making music is more a mission than a career. But now, having paused long enough to know which way the wind blows, they have at last unlocked the power of all that aching, unresolved passion. They always seemed destined for great things. With 'Urban Hymns' they have finally made good on their promise." - TIME OUT "It's greatness is in its humanity and in the sense that , from fear, failure and insecurity, it's possible to scale heights in a way which not only sets the standard for the rest of the year but the decade too." - MOJO
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