- shoegaze, britpop, neo-psychedelia, space rock
- 64 min
- 12 tracks
- Virgin
A Northern Soul is the second studio album by English rock band the Verve, released on 3 July 1995 through Hut Records. With the tumultuous promotion for their debut studio album, A Storm in Heaven (1993), combined with their friends in Oasis becoming exceptionally popular, relationships between members of the Verve became strained.
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Character
Character-led, grave, spare and earnest.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Entertainment WeeklyC
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- NME6/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Select5/5
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Drowned in Sound10/10
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Gigwise9/10 ★
- The Line of Best Fit9/10
- Mojo4/5 ★
- PopMatters9/10 ★
- Record Collector4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone Germany3.5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1A New Decade4:12
- 2This Is Music3:36
- 3On Your Own3:34
- 4So It Goes6:11
- 5A Northern Soul6:32
- 6Brainstorm Interlude5:11
- 7Drive You Home6:42
- 8History5:26
- 9No Knock on My Door5:12
- 10Life’s an Ocean5:44
- 11Stormy Clouds5:35
- 12(Reprise)6:11
12 tracks, 64 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Verve
- Label
- Virgin
- Released
- 1995
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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