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' Released: 14 October 2013 The Minutes (stylised as the minutes) is the eighth studio album by English singer-songwriter, released on 3 May 2013. It is the first album of new material released since 2007's, and a marked return to her electronic roots. While creating the album Moyet stated that it was not aimed at the charts, though the album debuted at number five on the with first-week sales of 13,536 copies, Moyet's highest-charting studio album since reached number two in 1987. The Minutes received overwhelmingly positive reviews from music critics, many of whom referred to the album as her 'best in decades'. Contents. Background Moyet announced on that her new album with would be released in 2012.
However, in February 2012, Moyet announced on Twitter that “I appear to have forfeited my recording deal because I won’t do reality TV. No-one needs to make an album that badly. Tea anyone?” In a 13 June 2012 interview with Touchbase, Moyet confirmed that she was still recording her album and that she was not rushing it, stating she could not envisage it being released before January 2013.
When describing its sound and theme, Moyet said, 'It's quite dark and definitely not aimed at the charts. It has an electronic bias, but isn’t retro. I’m not listening to anything current or referring back to anything with this album and they the songs aren’t influenced by what’s going on. It will stand apart.' On 22 January 2013 it was announced via Moyet's official Facebook page that she had signed a worldwide deal with the London-based record label Cooking Vinyl. On 31 January 2013 it was revealed in a press release that the album was set to be released in May 2013. Included in the release were quotes from both Rob Collins, and Moyet.
'Alison is a legend and has made an outstanding record on her own terms. I think a lot of people will be surprised, in a good way, about how amazing the record is.' — Alison Moyet On 18 February 2013, it was revealed via Facebook that the new album would be titled The Minutes along with one of its tracks 'Changeling' made available as a free download via Moyet's newly relaunched website. The Minutes is described as 'a unique collection of captivating songs that incorporate elements of high-end modern pop, club sounds, R&B and electronic experimentation.' 'I avoided listening to anything during the process of writing and recording this album, choosing instead to be led by my own melodic voice, the one I now find myself with 30-years-in. Guy Sigsworth returns me to a programmer’s world and marries it with perfect musicality.
I have been waiting for him. We have made an album mindless of industry mores that apply to middle-aged women and have shunned all talk of audiences, demographics and advert jazz covers.
This has easily been my happiest studio experience.' — Alison In an interview with during his show on 23 March 2013, Moyet explained the meaning behind the album's title: 'Basically, we all feel slightly cheated when our life does not end up being this stream of joy and one thing that you do understand when you come middle aged is that it was never about that, it was always a lie, that it was always about fantastic minutes that are suspended in years, and that’s what this is about. All the years of fighting to make a creative record for myself rather than do a covers album. These are my minutes.' In a May 2013 interview with, Moyet went onto reveal that she was inspired by the film,.
'Right at the end of the film there's this scene that lifts your spirits immeasurably. It summed up how I feel at the age of 51, which is that our lives are about brilliant little minutes suspended in years. But those minutes aren't necessarily very dramatic or specific, so I put the album title in small letters.' Moyet also states that she wrote the song 'Filigree' after viewing The Tree of Life and that that's where the reference to 'the minutes' derives. 'I went to see The Tree of Life, it was a rainy weekend afternoon, I was with my husband and it was sort of like we fell into a cinema. There was a line outside, the people were going in and obviously it’s an art house film and these people were leaving in droves.
These people looking for mainstream entertainment. You see them go. We sat there. We were caught by the visual beauty, perplexed by the seeming lack of narrative. But, either way you sit there for almost an hour and you find yourself involved in watching it and moving with the pace. At the same time, you still don’t quite understand your experience. Then, in the last five minutes of the film is a wonderful, redemptive scene, which really kind of sums up what this album The Minutes means to me.
It's like the whole chorus and you jump too soon and that can relate to suicide, that can relate to your relationship; a project that’s become tortuous. Anything you fear and you’re on your last legs and you jump right before this glorious redemptive minute.' 'The one thing that you understand when you are middle-aged, is that this idea that you’re sold on nursery stories when you’re young is this 'perfect' life and that somehow you f.cked up.
You’ve got to continue on and you fucked up. Then, you get to this brilliant place in your life where you are understood 'Oh I see, those glorious times.
They happened in pedestrian years. Those minutes were strong in pedestrian years. And when I understand that, when I stop feeling cheated because of those dull, loveless, gray days and it’s just these times that we’re supposed to support. When you understand that, you’re in the grade.
You’re ready for your own misery.' — Alison Moyet in Rage Monthly Magazine In the June 2013 issue of, Moyet revealed other considered titles: 'Changeling' ('but had an album called '). 'Alison Moyet And The Man From,'.because I wanted Guy in there somewhere. Because like I say this felt like a band album to me as opposed to a solo singer album.
Because we worked together as a band, we didn't work together as a producer-client.' Compositions The Minutes is a highly charged electronic, -driven album with hints of and with moments of and. According to Moyet, 'schizophrenia' is the theme of the album. Songs 'Remind Yourself' and 'When I Was Your Girl,' Moyet states are about 'the opposing dialogues within oneself.' 'Rung By The Tide' resulted from researching the Middle Ages where 'great swathes of the English coastline fell into the sea and priories and monasteries and their bell towers were lost.' 'Then I started to think about what it would feel like to be a bell laughs.
I thought, maybe the bell would be completely delighted about it. Maybe the bell thought: 'All this time you've told me when I could sing and when I could stop, but now that's over.'
Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating (73/100) Review scores Source Rating 7/10 Liverpool Sound and Vision 7/10 The Minutes received positive reviews. The described the album as 'brilliant' and 'cinematic, energetic and sitting as prettily today as it might have 25 years ago, the minutes is stirring and beautiful,' referring to the album's sound being a return to her early electronic and sythnpop days.
Also echoed the Daily Express' critique of the album being a return to Moyet's earlier but added that the album's sound moved into'new territory.' Hailed the album Moyet's 'finest album in twenty years.' Dubbed The Minutes 'her best album, by a considerable margin.'
Jeremy Williams of referred to Moyet's work with producer Guy Sigsworth 'essentially a rather captivating meeting of two creative minds, who together have crafted a near perfect contemporary masterpiece that could soon be hailed a classic.' Called Sigsworth Moyet's 'musical soulmate' and said of The Minutes: 'this is her best LP in decades.' Liverpool Sound and Vision described the album as '.going back to the house you were born in and seeing that it has irrevocably changed but has all the old pleasant memories running around its corridors.' Charles Pitter for referred to Moyet as versatile, and that her music can 'appeal to hipsters and housewives, or even housewives in hipsters, and the minutes is a great type of hybrid.'
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In the United States, called The Minutes a 'triumph' and that the album 'towers above almost everything before it in the Moyet oeuvre.' Singles The first single 'When I Was Your Girl' received its exclusive first play on 's BBC Radio 2 show on 19 March 2013. The music video for the single premiered the very same day via the UK web site.
Moyet was accompanied by her real-life daughter in the video. The single's official release date was set for 1 April. It was performed at The Graham Norton Show on the BBC and on ITV1's This Morning.
It featured on Radio 2's 'A' list and on other radio stations including '106.9FM WHCR' and '. It was announced on 29 May 2013 that the second single taken from The Minutes would be 'Love Reign Supreme'.
A music video for the single was shot at Moyet's Bush Hall show. The third single off the album ' was released on 14 October 2013. Promotion 'Tasters' Aside from offering a free download of the track 'Changeling' via her official web site, Moyet began release 'tasters', short clips of each album track uploaded every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on a account throughout April 2013. Because an amateur shot live performance of the song 'Rung by the Tide' from her Bush Hall gig failed to appear on YouTube, Moyet held off on releasing a clip of the eleventh and final track on the album. Bush Hall gig Moyet announced 'Taking the Minutes', a one-off gig at London's to be held 18 April 2013 to launch the album.
The gig was described as 'the single opportunity to hear every track of the album – live and in order – by the three people who made it.' Moyet is to be joined by co-producer Guy Sigsworth and Chris Elms. Fans were made aware of the possibility of a few tracks, reworked by Sigsworth, making the set list. A live EP was released on 13 August 2014, Live at Bush Hall featuring the songs: 'When I Was Your Girl,' 'Filigree,' 'Nobody's Diary,' and 'Don't Go.' Tour On 25 February 2013, a tour was announced to promote the album. The Minutes Tour includes dates in UK and Ireland have been scheduled from 30 September through 31 October 2013.
Tickets went on sale 8 March 2013. 'Very glad to announce that I am heading back into tour central. Returning with my new album the minutes, shifted the bent and will see me returning to the stage with computers and screens and programming a go-go.
This tour, highlighting my new material, will take advantage of the altered line-up to approach again songs from Yazoo, my early solo synth years and Hometime, I reckon. Ballads will be in short supply. Invisible, just that. Don’t say I didn’t tell you and do learn the words. Then we can have all-togetherness and the like and I can do that pointing thing and get you to sing and it will be brilliant and we shall laugh like drains except for in the grim bits. Naturally there will be grim happening at some point. I am Alison Moyet, be fair.
Then, when the grim is over we can do some idiot dancing and get all loved up on it. Sounds like a top plan xxx'. — Alison Moyet Track listing No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. 'Horizon Flame', 3:39 2. ' Moyet, Sigsworth 2:57 3. ' Moyet, Sigsworth 3:39 4.
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'Apple Kisses' Moyet, Sigsworth 3:32 5. 'Right As Rain' Moyet, Sigsworth, 3:07 6. 'Remind Yourself' Moyet, Sigsworth, 3:48 7. ' Moyet, Sigsworth, Lowe 3:45 8. 'A Place to Stay' Moyet, Sigsworth 4:03 9. 'Filigree' Moyet, Sigsworth 3:44 10.
'All Signs of Life' Moyet, Sigsworth 3:54 11. 'Rung by the Tide' Moyet, Sigsworth 4:35 Total length: 40:43 bonus track No. Title Writer(s) Length 12. 'Filigree' (West Coast Mix) Moyet, Sigsworth 3:43 Total length: 44:27 Personnel Credits for The Minutes adapted from liner notes.
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Alison Moyet - The Minutes (2013) Label: Cooking Vinyl Format: CD album + bonnus track Country: UK Year: 2013 Genre: Electronic, Pop Style: Synth-pop Tracklist: 01. Horizon Flame 3:39 02. Changeling 2:58 03. When I Was Your Girl 3:39 04. Apple Kisses 3:32 05. And the Moral of the Story Is . . ..
Right As Rain 3:08 06. Remind Yourself 3:48 07. Love Reign Supreme 3:46 08. A Place To Stay 4:03 09. Filigree 3:45 10. All Signs Of Life 3:55 11. Rung By The Tide 4:35 12.
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Contents. Early life Moyet was born in the town of to a French father and English mother. She grew up in the nearby town of, where she attended Janet Duke Junior School and then at secondary level. After leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop assistant and trained as a. She was involved in a number of, and blues bands in the South East Essex area during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including, the Vicars and the Little Roosters (the latter featuring Garrie Lammin, formerly of ). Music career 1980s: Yazoo and solo beginnings At the age of 21, Moyet's mainstream pop career began in 1982 with the formation of the duo with former member. In the United States, the band operated under the name Yaz, due to trademark issues with the record label already operating in the region.
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Yazoo had several hits, including ', ', ' and ', and recorded two albums, and. In 1983, Clarke decided to disband Yazoo.
While Clarke went on to form (another duo, this time with ) and then (a duo again, with ), Moyet signed to, and began her solo career. In 1984, Moyet released her debut solo album (titled after her punk-era nickname). Alf was produced by the record producing and songwriting team of. The album was co-written by the duo and Moyet, with the exception of ', which was written for Moyet. The record was a hit in Britain, reaching No. 1 in the album chart. Alf spawned three international hit singles, ' (UK No. 10), ' (UK No. 21) and ' (UK No. 8). In the US, 'Invisible' was a Top 40 hit.
In some European territories, a fourth single, ', was also released. In 1985, Moyet performed at alongside and later returned unscheduled to the stage (alongside, and ) to provide vocals on ' when 's vocal microphone at his piano failed, leaving him unable to be heard for the first stanza of the song. (Twenty years later, he overdubbed his vocal for the Live Aid DVD release.) Moyet also released a single not featured on Alf, a cover of the standard ', which climbed to No. 2 on the (it remains Moyet's highest-charting UK single). Moyet had another big UK hit the following year with ' (co-written by the ', under the pseudonym Jean Guiot), followed in 1987 by her second LP,.
Raindancing spawned further hit singles, including a cover of 's ' and '. In 1987, she scored another cover hit with ', which peaked at UK No. 4. The video for the song featured comedy duo. 1990s: Further recordings and hiatus Following a period of personal and career evaluation, was released in 1991. The album sold respectably in the UK, and Moyet was nominated for a for the single '. However, the release of Hoodoo marked the beginning of an eight-year fight for Moyet to secure complete control of her artistic direction.
Like many similar artists (including and the late ), Moyet was reluctant to record a radio-friendly 'pop' album simply for the sake of creating chart hits. Moyet's next album, (1994), was also a source of controversy for her; in order for the album to be released, her label (now ) insisted that certain Essex tracks be re-recorded and re-produced, and that there be additional material remixed to create a more 'commercial' package.
The video for the single ' again featured. Following the release of Essex, Sony released a greatest hits compilation of Moyet's work. Entered the UK charts at No. 1 and, following a UK tour, was re-issued as a double CD set which included 'Live (No Overdubs)', a bonus live CD.
Upon re-issue, Singles charted again, this time in the Top 20. Due to prolonged litigation with Sony, Moyet did not record or release a new studio album for over eight years after the release of Essex. During this time, however, she recorded vocals for, Sylk-130, and, and was featured on the British leg of the tour. 2001 saw the release of CD, and in 2002 The Essential Alison Moyet DVD.
In 1995, she sang back-up vocals with for one of 's last television appearances, singing 'Where Is a Woman to Go?' On the music show. 2000s: Return to recording and touring In August 2002, Moyet was released from her Sony contract. Moyet signed to and released her first studio album in eight years. Was produced by, who had also produced works by and.
The release of the CD launched Moyet into the top five best-selling female UK artists of 2002, and resulted in a nomination for Best Female Vocalist, as well as a nomination for the. Hometime was certified gold in the UK for sales in excess of 100,000 copies, with little promotion., a collection of, was released on 6 September 2004 and entered the UK charts at No. 7. Scored and produced by Moyet's neighbour (and winner), the album was later re-issued with a bonus track, 'Alfie'. A companion DVD, One Blue Voice, was released in 2006. Voice was certified Gold in the UK within four weeks of its release. In December 2006, Moyet signed a with W14 Music, a imprint. The deal saw Moyet reunited with label head John Williams, who was man for her previous two albums, Hometime and Voice.
Moyet's album, was released on 15 October 2007, preceded by the single 'One More Time' a week earlier. The album featured self-penned songs, including the three numbers she wrote for the stage play, Smaller in which she starred with Dawn French. For these songs, again Moyet worked alongside producer/songwriter and frequent Moyet collaborator Pete Glenister. The Turn debuted at No. 21 on the on 22 October 2007. Moyet left W14 shortly after the release of The Turn. During mid-2008, Moyet reunited with Vince Clarke as for a series of live dates. Alison Moyet with at the Apollo Theatre, Manchester, December 2010 Sony Music released on 19 October 2009.
It was Moyet's personal selection of tracks from her seven solo albums. The deluxe edition of the album, The Best of: 25 Years Revisited, contained an extra disc, with re-recorded versions of older songs.
Moyet supported the release with a tour of the UK and Ireland during November and December 2009. Also in 2009, she provided vocals to My Robot Friend's single 'Waiting.' 2010s: Return to synthpop roots Moyet appeared with throughout his tour of the UK in 2010. In the same year she contributed vocals to 'The Man That Got Away' on Holland's album Rocking Horse. Moyet appeared with on January 2012 on the final concert of Peace's first studio album, Fairytales. Moyet announced on that her new album with would be released in 2012, but in February that year she stated 'I appear to have forfeited my recording deal because I won't do reality TV.
No-one needs to make an album that badly. In an interview with Touchbase the following June, Moyet confirmed that she was still recording her album and that she was not rushing it. On 22 January 2013 the singer announced on her Facebook page that she had signed a worldwide deal with London-based record label.
Sony Music had earlier announced that Moyet's four solo albums on the label ( Alf, Raindancing, Hoodoo and Essex) were being digitally remastered and would be reissued with and bonus material. In February 2013, Moyet said of the remastered albums: 'The project was Sony's – some initial work was done and then the project was suspended.'
Alison Moyet in the Hamburg, September 2013 was released in the UK on 6 May 2013. The first single, ', was released on 1 April 2013. A tour of the UK and Ireland to promote the album was announced for October.
Describing the album, Moyet said: 'I avoided listening to anything during the process of writing and recording this album, choosing instead to be led by my own melodic voice, the one I now find myself with 30-years-in. Guy Sigsworth returns me to a programmer's world and marries it with perfect musicality.
I have been waiting for him. We have made an album mindless of industry mores that apply to middle-aged women and have shunned all talk of audiences, demographics and advert jazz covers.
This has easily been my happiest studio experience.' The Minutes debuted at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart, her highest debut since 1987's Raindancing. In July 2013, Moyet said that she has begun writing new material for the follow-up to The Minutes. On 16 October 2013, Moyet appeared as a guest performer on ITV 1's The One and Only Cilla Black celebrating Black's 50 years in show business. Moyet sang 'Anyone Who Had a Heart'.
On 10 November 2014, Moyet released a live album, taken from The Minutes Tour. On 30 July 2015, it was announced that Moyet would be releasing deluxe editions of her albums Hometime, Voice, and The Turn. According to her official web site: 'Each album will feature plenty of bonus material – including some rare and previously unreleased material.' On 21 September 2015, Moyet performed at the Show. Her set was released as an digital EP, Live for Burberry on 23 September. On 27 September 2016, it was announced that Moyet's first four studio albums Alf, Raindancing, Hoodooo and Essex would be reissued as Deluxe editions after having been remastered by on 25 November 2016.
Each double-disc set comes in a casebound book with the original album remastered from the original tapes along with 12-inch remixes, b-sides and previously unreleased songs. Moyet's ninth studio album, described as 'intelligent, adventurous electronic pop,' co-produced by Guy Sigsworth, was released 16 June 2017 on Cooking Vinyl. From September through December that same year, she will embark on a world tour, The Other Tour.
In October 2017, Moyet featured as guest artist on the Norwegian band 's acoustic album, singing 'Summer Moved On'. The performance was recorded at Giske island in Norway in June 2017.
Theatre Moyet made her stage debut in the London West End production of the musical in 2001. She played the part of Matron 'Mama' Morton, and although it had initially been intended to be a short run, it eventually ran for six months. In 2006, she appeared in the play Smaller, which undertook a regional tour before a stint at London's. Personal life Moyet's first marriage, to hairdresser and retired London firefighter Malcolm Lee with whom she has a son, Joe (born 1985), ended in divorce.
Moyet has a daughter, Alex (born 1987), with former partner Kim McCarthy, and a daughter, Caitlin (born 1996), with her current husband David Ballard. In 2013, Moyet moved from, Hertfordshire, to. Moyet has been candid about her battles with weight, and. On 14 October 2014, Moyet was presented with a Gold Badge Award in recognition of her unique contribution to music. She is a supporter of.
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