Love Is Here

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Love Is Here
Studio album by Starsailor
Released October 8, 2001
Genre Indie rock, piano rock, Indie pop, post-Britpop
Length 57:19
Label EMI
Producer Mark Aubrey
Steve Osborne
Starsailor
Starsailor chronology
Love Is Here
(2001)		 Silence Is Easy
(2003)
Singles from Love Is Here
  1. "Fever"
    Released: February 5, 2001
  2. "Good Souls"
    Released: April 23, 2001
  3. "Alcoholic"
    Released: September 17, 2001
  4. "Lullaby"
    Released: December 10, 2001
  5. "Poor Misguided Fool"
    Released: March 18, 2002

Love Is Here is the debut studio album by indie rock band Starsailor, released on 8 October 2001. In 2002, Love Is Here was certified as platinum in the UK.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Drowned in Sound6/10[4]
NME8/10[5]
Pitchfork Media5.7/10.0[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
Slant Magazine[8]

Upon its release, Love Is Here received some critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 72, based on 19 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

Q listed Love Is Here as one of the best 50 albums of 2001,[9] while NME rated it as the fifth best album of the year.[10]

Track listing

  1. "Tie Up My Hands" – 5:46
  2. "Poor Misguided Fool" – 3:51
  3. "Alcoholic" – 2:56
  4. "Lullaby" – 4:13
  5. "Way to Fall" – 4:30
  6. "Fever" – 4:03
  7. "She Just Wept" – 4:12
  8. "Talk Her Down" – 4:11
  9. "Love Is Here" – 4:41
  10. "Good Souls" – 4:53
  11. "Coming Down" – 14:30 (song ends at 3:07)

The album also includes a hidden track at 13:35 of the track "Coming Down", consisting of under a minute of humming from the band members. The humming is an alternate take of background accompaniment for the song "Coming Down.

Chart position

Country Peak
position		 Certification Sales
Italy[11] 20 - -
United Kingdom 2 Platinum 550000+

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Starsailor Awards :: Music - For Your Information :: Starsailor Awards @ Mfyi.com
  2. 1 2 "Critic Reviews for Love Is Here - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Wilson, MacKenzie. "Love Is Here - Starsailor | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Carlin, Tom (17 October 2001). "Album Review: Starsailor - Love Is Here". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Segal, Victoria (2 October 2001). "NME Album Reviews - Starsailor : Love Is Here - NME.COM". NME. IPC Media. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  6. ↑ Dare, Christopher (21 January 2002). "Starsailor: Love Is Here | Album Reviews | Pitchfork". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  7. ↑ Rolling Stone review Archived October 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ Cinquemani, Sal (31 December 2002). "Starsailor: Love Is Here | Music Review | Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "The Best 50 Albums of 2001". Q. December 2001. pp. 60–65.
  10. ↑ "Albums and Tracks of the Year for 2001 - NME.COM". NME. IPC Media. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  11. ↑
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