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Forth | 
| Artist: The Verve
Label: Mri Associated
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
Buy New: $9.99
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 1006
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.2
MPN: 61252
UPC: 202861252288
EAN: 0020286125228
ASIN: B001C47ZOM
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Sit And Wonder | | • | Love Is Noise | | • | Rather Be | | • | Judas | | • | Numbness | | • | I See Houses | | • | Noise Epic | | • | Valium Skies | | • | Columbo | | • | Appalachian Springs |
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Product Description
Something happens when the Verve are together that none of them experience when they are apart. Individually, the Verve are all highly-accomplished players. Singer Richard Ashcroft has been called the greatest singer in the world by no less a peer than Coldplay s Chris Martin. Liverpool-born Simon Jones s dub-informed bass takes the Verve s music far beyond rock and into space and dub; Peter Salisbury plays drums more like a jazz great than a conventional rock drummer and when the tag guitarist of his generation is thrown about it often lands at the feet of the hugely adventurous, psychedelic, exploratory Nick McCabe. However, when they are together a chemistry takes hold that transcends the four people onstage to blast the Verve somewhere else entirely and this chemistry and spontaneity has survived an absence of almost a decade. Already, since their typically unpredictable 2007 reunion, live shows have been running the gauntlet of everything from material so new that Ashcroft has been singing the words from scraps of paper to long-lost, hazy B-sides like Let The Damage Begin and A Man Called Sun, amid all manner of musical fireworks. When they take the stage, literally anything can happen.
After an absence of almost a decade, these songs are again being played, as they should be by the Verve themselves. The individual members have not been slouches. Richard Ashcroft has enjoyed a successful and prolific solo career. Simon Jones formed a band, the Shining, who were not altogether dissimilar to the Verve, and has played with Damon Albarn s Gorillaz. Nick McCabe has been remixing and playing with everyone from the Beta Band to John Martyn while Peter Salisbury has been playing with Ashcroft, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and has further diverted his musical obsessions into running a Stockport drum shop. However, all seem to have realized what their enormous fanbase has been telling them all along. That today, as much if not more than ever, music really needs the Verve.
However, a band like the Verve would never settle for easy nostalgia. Even before they d set out on their initial comeback gigs last year, which sold out within an astonishing 20 minutes, they made public (via the NME website) the results of their very first jam session as a reformed band. The Thaw Sessions comprised 14 wondrous minutes of music, which signified their ability to spark off one another remained undimmed. Soon afterwards, the band debuted new song Sit And Wonder a tune trimmed from a 25-minute jam, just as they would in the early days, a taste of things to come. Those comeback dates proved so successful and were so enthusiastically received that the band immediately embarked on a full-scale tour of arenas in December of 2007, playing bigger gigs in many cases than the first time around. In 2008, they look set to up the ante even further, by appearing at many of the major festivals and, in a turnaround that would have seemed unthinkable even a year ago, releasing their enormously-anticipated fourth album. The results will certainly be worth the wait. - Dave Simpson.
Album Description
The Verve are back! One of the biggest selling and more influential bands of the last ten years have reformed and recorded an album of new material. After the sucess of 'Urban Hymns', which to date has sold 3 million copies in the UK, 'Forth' is a true return to form, and the first single 'Love Is Noise' looks set to become a festival anthem this summer.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 Great Return! December 28, 2008
LJ (USA)
I was skeptical when I got this CD, and was expecting the worst after hearing some friends' feedback, but I found this entire CD to be a masterpiece. It's good to have The Verve back, and back at their very best!
alive again December 21, 2008
Carstereo Ratliff (USA)
i must admit, this band changed my life back in 1997 (i was introduced to them by a friend. richard, peter, nick & simon R bad-azz........ if you are new(listening) to this band; check out "northern soul" and then you'll understand (on your own and history). 4 this LP, i rate it "a reunion of Britain's finest"
PASS THE WORD "the boyz R back"
check our Judas, (straight up, classic Verve, yet something NEW to feel!
i am elated "Carstereo Ratliff"
Simply Amazing December 2, 2008
Julia A. Anderson (Norman, OK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Verve started right where they left off 11 years ago. I am completely in love with this album. It is gorgeous, heart wrenching, optimistic, and thoughtful. I am so glad they are back, I keep my fingers crossed for another brilliant album!
Beautiful music, very different..... November 17, 2008
A. Randall (TEXAS)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a big, bif fan of Urban Hymns and was so excited to see a new release from the Verve. Just brilliant work again from these guys. If you are a Verve fan you must get this! Just love the mix of guitars, strings and piano on the songs. It is different from other Verve albums but I recommend it highly.
The Verve's best album - period. October 20, 2008
Andrish Reddy (South Africa)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album came like a ray of light bursting through the clouds (see album cover) when the music of recent times has been lacking in soul. The Verve have the ability to draw out each of our dreams and fears and lay them on a canvas that feels like sonic heroin. I have called this album the Verve's best because of its maturity, honesty, and beauty. If you have not listened to the Verve before, please... start with this album. If you listen to the Verve, Christmas has come early!
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