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Chasing Shadows (The Comsat Angels album)

Chasing Shadows is the Comsat Angels' sixth album, released in 1986 on Island Records.

Chasing Shadows
Studio album by
The Comsat Angels
Released1986
GenrePost-punk
Length41:32
LabelIsland
ProducerThe Comsat Angels, Kevin Moloney, Rob Fraboni
The Comsat Angels chronology
7 Day Weekend
(1985) 		Chasing Shadows
(1986) 		Fire on the Moon
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Having left Jive Records, the band had gotten a recording contract with Island, aided by Robert Palmer, who confessed on a TV show to be a fan of the Comsat Angels.[2] As a thank you, he was credited as "executive producer" on the album, and also provided vocals for the song "You'll Never Know."[3]

The track "The Cutting Edge" was released as a single, with "Something's Got to Give" on the B-side.[4] The latter song was not included on the album, but later appeared as a demo track on the 2007 release To Before.[5] The original version appeared on the 2015 reissue of Chasing Shadows.

Chasing Shadows was regarded by the band as a departure from their two prior albums, Land and 7 Day Weekend, which were produced by Jive Records. During a 1997 interview, frontman Stephen Fellows agreed with a suggestion that Chasing Shadows displayed his best vocal performance, adding: "I liked Rockfield, where we recorded Chasing Shadows cos it was very informal. We played mostly live, with vocals added later. Sleep No More was done live – the feel, capturing the moment. Obviously the Jive albums weren't done like that – assembled by machines in another room while we watched television and ate fruit".[6]

Chasing Shadows was reissued by Edsel Records in November 2015 as part of a two-CD set which also included the 1990 album Fire on the Moon, which was recorded by the band using the name Dream Command.

Track listing

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All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake.

  1. "The Thought That Counts" – 6:03
  2. "The Cutting Edge" – 5:06
  3. "Under the Influence" – 4:22
  4. "Carried Away" – 5:05
  5. "You'll Never Know" – 4:57
  6. "Lost Continent" – 5:01
  7. "Flying Dreams" – 5:45
  8. "Pray for Rain" – 5:01
  9. "Something's Got to Give" (2015 edition bonus track)

Personnel

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The Comsat Angels

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References

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  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ the comsat angels, q&a
  3. ^ The Comsat Angels Q&A at Renascent Records
  4. ^ Comsat Angels website Archived 2012-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Comsat Angels website Archived 2012-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Step Off, interviews, Stephen Fellows interviewed by Tony Kinson 13/3/97 [1][usurped]
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