- britpop, alternative rock, rock, alternative and punk
- 155 min
- 27 tracks
- Virgin
Urban Hymns is the third studio album by English rock band the Verve, released on 29 September 1997 on Hut Records. The group had broken up while promoting A Northern Soul in August 1995, though they reformed two weeks later without guitarist Nick McCabe.
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Character-led, grave, spare and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Chicago Tribune2.5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Guardian5/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork8.9/10
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette3/5 ★
- Q5/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Select5/5
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- The Line of Best Fit9/10
- The New Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Record Collector3/5 ★
- Rolling Stone Germany4/5 ★
- Sputnikmusic3.5/5
- Under the Radar9/10
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Tracks
- 1Bitter Sweet Symphony5:57
- 2Sonnet4:21
- 3The Rolling People7:02
- 4The Drugs Don’t Work5:05
- 5Catching the Butterfly6:27
- 6Neon Wilderness2:38
- 7Space and Time5:37
- 8Weeping Willow4:50
- 9Lucky Man4:54
- 10One Day5:03
- 11This Time3:51
- 12Velvet Morning4:58
- 13Come On / Deep Freeze15:15
- 1This Is Music (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)3:59
- 2Space and Time (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)6:00
- 3Catching the Butterfly (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)6:29
- 4Sonnet (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)4:41
- 5The Rolling People (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)6:16
- 6Weeping Willow (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)4:38
- 7The Drugs Don’t Work (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)6:00
- 8Lucky Man (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)5:30
- 9Life’s an Ocean (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)6:49
- 10Velvet Morning (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)6:01
- 11Bitter Sweet Symphony (live from the Haigh Hall Concert Hall)10:08
- 12A New Decade (Washington DC 9.30 Club 03.11.97)3:44
- 13History (Brixton Academy 16.01.98)4:53
- 14Slide Away (Manchester Academy 11.08.97)4:11
27 tracks, 155 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Verve
- Label
- Virgin
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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