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''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''{{'}}s Alastair McKay gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and praised Rae's singing, writing that she "has taken on board the way Nina Simone could flick a switch between absent-minded harmonising and entering the abyss".<ref name="McKay">McKay, Alastair. [http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/corinne_bailey_rae/reviews/13921 Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''. Retrieved on 2010-02-03.</ref> [[MusicOMH]] columnist Rob Watson gave the album 4½ out of 5 stars and called it "a dense, lush and muti-faceted record, with Rae's melodic sensibilities mixing with much darker jazz and rock influences, and her carefree spirit tempered with a much more meditative approach".<ref name="Watson">Watson, Rob. [http://www.musicomh.com/albums/corinne-bailey-rae-2_0110.htm Review: ''The Sea'']. [[MusicOMH]]. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.</ref> ''[[The Independent]]''{{'}}s Andy Gill gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and compared it to the work of [[Laura Nyro]], [[Marvin Gaye]], and [[Joni Mitchell]].<ref name="Gill">Gill, Andy. [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-corinne-bailey-rae-the-sea-virgin-1882210.html Review: ''The Sea'']. ''The Independent''. Retrieved on 2010-01-28.</ref> Craig McLean of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' called it "the intense and moving result" of Rae's hiatus and described it as "an album that suggests [[Nina Simone]] singing a modern version of [[Van Morrison]]’s ''[[Astral Weeks]]''".<ref name="McLean">McLean, Craig. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/7043457/Corinne-Bailey-Rae-interview-for-The-Sea.html Corinne Bailey Rae interview for The Sea]. ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved on 2010-01-29.</ref> ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''[[The Belfast Telegraph]]'', and ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and lauded its personal lyrical nature.<ref name="Brown">Brown, Helen. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/7101792/Corinne-Bailey-Rae-The-Sea-CD-review.html Review: ''The Sea'']. ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved on 2010-01-29.</ref><ref name="Belfast">Columnist. [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/corinne-bailey-rae-the-sea-emi-14658451.html Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[The Belfast Telegraph]]''. Retrieved on 2010-01-29.</ref><ref name="Cairns">Cairns, Dan. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article7005308.ece Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[The Sunday Times]]''. Retrieved on 2010-01-30.</ref> In comparing ''The Sea'' to Rae's debut album, Ken Capobianco of ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' called it "richer, much less accessible, and marked by a sense of loss and introspection".<ref name="Capobianco">Capobianco, Ken. [http://www.boston.com/ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2010/01/25/corinne_bailey_rae_the_sea/ Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[The Boston Globe]]''. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.</ref> ''[[Newsday]]''{{'}}s Glen Gamboa gave ''The Sea'' an A rating and called it "far heavier, more substantial" than Rae's debut album.<ref name="Gamboa"/> ''[[Evening Standard]]'' writer John Aizlewood gave it 4 out of 4 stars and viewed the sense of loss in its themes as "allied to a musical adventurism which banishes for ever the blander aspects of her debut".<ref name="Aizlewood">Aizlewood, John. [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23800703-cds-of-the-week-corinne-bailey-rae-hot-chip-and-lil-wayne.do Review: ''The Sea'']. ''Evening Standard''. Retrieved on 2010-02-01.</ref> ''[[USA Today]]''{{'}}s Elysa Gardner perceived Rae as "more pensive" and "soulful" on ''The Sea'' than on her debut album.<ref name="Gardner"/> ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'}}s Caroline Sullivan gave it 4 out of 5 stars and wrote "Rae has made an album she'll have trouble bettering".<ref name="Sullivan"/> ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' writer [[Ann Powers]] gave the album 4 out of 4 stars and wrote "''The Sea'' is a remarkable accomplishment. It's a step toward something--Rae's inner peace, and her next artistic breakthrough--that has its own considerable rewards".<ref name="Powers"/>
''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''{{'}}s Alastair McKay gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and praised Rae's singing, writing that she "has taken on board the way Nina Simone could flick a switch between absent-minded harmonising and entering the abyss".<ref name="McKay">McKay, Alastair. [http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/corinne_bailey_rae/reviews/13921 Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''. Retrieved on 2010-02-03.</ref> [[MusicOMH]] columnist Rob Watson gave the album 4½ out of 5 stars and called it "a dense, lush and muti-faceted record, with Rae's melodic sensibilities mixing with much darker jazz and rock influences, and her carefree spirit tempered with a much more meditative approach".<ref name="Watson">Watson, Rob. [http://www.musicomh.com/albums/corinne-bailey-rae-2_0110.htm Review: ''The Sea'']. [[MusicOMH]]. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.</ref> ''[[The Independent]]''{{'}}s Andy Gill gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and compared it to the work of [[Laura Nyro]], [[Marvin Gaye]], and [[Joni Mitchell]].<ref name="Gill">Gill, Andy. [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-corinne-bailey-rae-the-sea-virgin-1882210.html Review: ''The Sea'']. ''The Independent''. Retrieved on 2010-01-28.</ref> Craig McLean of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' called it "the intense and moving result" of Rae's hiatus and described it as "an album that suggests [[Nina Simone]] singing a modern version of [[Van Morrison]]’s ''[[Astral Weeks]]''".<ref name="McLean">McLean, Craig. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/7043457/Corinne-Bailey-Rae-interview-for-The-Sea.html Corinne Bailey Rae interview for The Sea]. ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved on 2010-01-29.</ref> ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''[[The Belfast Telegraph]]'', and ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and lauded its personal lyrical nature.<ref name="Brown">Brown, Helen. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/7101792/Corinne-Bailey-Rae-The-Sea-CD-review.html Review: ''The Sea'']. ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved on 2010-01-29.</ref><ref name="Belfast">Columnist. [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/corinne-bailey-rae-the-sea-emi-14658451.html Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[The Belfast Telegraph]]''. Retrieved on 2010-01-29.</ref><ref name="Cairns">Cairns, Dan. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article7005308.ece Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[The Sunday Times]]''. Retrieved on 2010-01-30.</ref> In comparing ''The Sea'' to Rae's debut album, Ken Capobianco of ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' called it "richer, much less accessible, and marked by a sense of loss and introspection".<ref name="Capobianco">Capobianco, Ken. [http://www.boston.com/ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2010/01/25/corinne_bailey_rae_the_sea/ Review: ''The Sea'']. ''[[The Boston Globe]]''. Retrieved on 2010-01-27.</ref> ''[[Newsday]]''{{'}}s Glen Gamboa gave ''The Sea'' an A rating and called it "far heavier, more substantial" than Rae's debut album.<ref name="Gamboa"/> ''[[Evening Standard]]'' writer John Aizlewood gave it 4 out of 4 stars and viewed the sense of loss in its themes as "allied to a musical adventurism which banishes for ever the blander aspects of her debut".<ref name="Aizlewood">Aizlewood, John. [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23800703-cds-of-the-week-corinne-bailey-rae-hot-chip-and-lil-wayne.do Review: ''The Sea'']. ''Evening Standard''. Retrieved on 2010-02-01.</ref> ''[[USA Today]]''{{'}}s Elysa Gardner perceived Rae as "more pensive" and "soulful" on ''The Sea'' than on her debut album.<ref name="Gardner"/> ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'}}s Caroline Sullivan gave it 4 out of 5 stars and wrote "Rae has made an album she'll have trouble bettering".<ref name="Sullivan"/> ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' writer [[Ann Powers]] gave the album 4 out of 4 stars and wrote "''The Sea'' is a remarkable accomplishment. It's a step toward something--Rae's inner peace, and her next artistic breakthrough--that has its own considerable rewards".<ref name="Powers"/>

The song 'Are You Here' was named the "number one essential track to download for the month of February" by ''[[Q Magazine]]''.<ref>[http://www.qthemusic.com/cgi-bin/q50/month.pl?id=43]</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==

Revision as of 01:58, 23 February 2010

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The Sea is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released 20 January 2010 on EMI. It is the follow-up to her eponymous debut album and was recorded following her hiatus from the music scene, which she took in the wake of her husband Jason Rae's death. The album debuted at number 7 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 53,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, The Sea received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 80/100 from Metacritic.

Background

Following the multi-platinum and award-winning success of her eponymous debut album, Corinne Bailey Rae began to work on songs for a follow-up album at the end of 2007.[2] However, she took a hiatus from recording and the music scene after the death of Bailey Rae's husband, Scottish saxophonist Jason Rae,[3] in March 2008 to an accidental overdose of methadone and alcohol.[2][4] After months of grief and isolation, Rae revisited her work the following year and composed additional material for The Sea.[2][3] Recording sessions for the album took place primarily at Limefield Studios in Manchester during 2009,[3] and production was handled by Rae with co-producers Steve Brown and Steve Chrisanthou.[2] During the recording process, Rae listened to Curtis Mayfield's There's No Place Like America Today (1975) and Sly & the Family Stone's Fresh (1973), as well as the music of Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen.[3] According to Rae, a live band was implemented in the album's recording, which was a departure from her debut album, stating "On the first album, it was me and a producer in a basement going though hundreds of snare drum sounds to find the right one. With a live band, you can stretch out more and try new things out without feeling you're having to undo this meticulously built-up track".[3]

The Sea contains songs written before and after Jason Rae's death.[4] According to Rae, most of the songs carry personal themes.[4] In an interview with NME, Bailey Rae discussed process of making music, particularly the song "Are You Here", which deals with her grief over her husband's death, stating "I feel like I've been playing music and writing and using music to help me with all the different emotions that I've been feeling. When I started writing that I was thinking, 'I don't really want this song to go into the world, 'cause it's so naked…' But I had to".[5] In an interview with The Observer's Sean O'Hagan, Rae discussed the effects of her husband's death on her musical style and the songs written before and after her hiatus, stating "What surprises me most is how the songs I wrote before it happened resonate almost as much as the ones I wrote after. The circumstances have cast it all in a different light. It began as a 'before and after' record, but it's become an 'after' record".[3] On the song "I Would Like to Call it Beauty", Rae discussed its theme of finding beauty in the "darkest times" and its relationship with The Sea, stating "There is something miraculous that pushes you along, makes you keep going, makes you carry on. It's really about the mystery of that. In fact, the whole album is about that in a way; it's about loss but it's also about hope, about keeping going and trying to find that beauty".[3]

Release and promotion

The Sea was first release on 20 January 2010 in Japan on EMI Music Japan.[6] Its release in the United States followed on 26 January 2010 through Capitol Records,[1] and in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2010 through EMI.[7] The album was also released in Brazil on 15 February 2010 through EMI.[8] The album was offered free of charge with a subscription to Q magazine, ending 15 April 2010.[9]

Rae presented material from The Sea along with her earlier songs on November 23, 2009 performance at The Tabernacle in London,[2] her first complete gig since her hiatus from the music scene.[10] Music critics that reviewed the performance perceived a grittier, organic sound and singing, with more soul and jazz influences and darker, more personal themes than Rae's previous work.[10][11][12][13] Rae also showcased songs from the album on December 7, 2009 at New York City's Hiro Ballroom.[14] The performance was recorded for the public television series Live from the Artists Den.[14] She also previewed the album at Joe's Pub on December 9, 2009, with ticket sales benefiting Pump Aid.[15]

Reception

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 7 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 53,000 copies in its first week.[16] It also entered at number 2 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at number 3 on its Top Digital Albums chart in the week of February 13, 2010.[17][18] In the United Kingdom, The Sea debuted at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart.[19] It dropped to number 15 in its second week on the chart.[20] In Canada, the album debuted at number 13 on the Canadian Albums Chart in the week ending 4 February 2010.[21] It entered at number 36 in the Netherlands and at number 33 in Ireland.[22]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[23]
Entertainment Weekly(B+)[24]
The Guardian[25]
Los Angeles Times[26]
Newsday(A)[27]
The Observer[28]
Rolling Stone[29]
Slant[30]
USA Today[31]
Washington Post(favorable)[32]

Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 80/100 from Metacritic.[33] Several critics viewed it as a sign of artistic growth and maturity for Rae.[23][32][34][35][36] About.com's Mark Edward Nero gave The Sea 4½ out of 5 stars and praised Rae for her emotional depth, writing "although this is a very personal, emotionally rich album, it celebrates life's beauty more than it wallows in it's [sic] darkness".[37] Simon Vozick-Levinson of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+ rating and praised Rae's singing, calling her voice "as eloquent an instrument as ever".[24] Associated Press writer Mesfin Fekadu praised the musicianship on The Sea and wrote that "she's outdone herself".[38] Boston Herald critic Jed Gottlieb gave the album a B+ rating and called it a "soulful record that recalls Carole King as much as Aretha".[39] The New Zealand Herald's Jacqueline Smith gave the album 4 out of 4 stars and commended Rae for her "honest emotion".[40] The Leeds Guide's Annie Moss gave it 4 out of 5 stars and wrote "Rae has emerged sombre yet defiant with a stunning record that rises above expectation".[41] Paul Lester of BBC Online wrote favorably of the album's music and commended Rae for her lyrical depth.[42] Paste magazine's Steve LaBate gave The Sea a 78 out of 100 rating and praised its music and called it "refreshingly eclectic".[36] The Observer writer Kitty Empire called it "saturated in feeling and graced by superior musicianship", writing that Rae's songwriting and singing have "acquired reflective, ghostly soul".[43] Jim Farber of the New York Daily News gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and wrote that her "vocal twists and turns sound magically organic", and wrote that The Sea "boasts an unusually crisp sound".[44]

However, Slant Magazine's Nick Day described it as "simultaneously intimate and frustratingly opaque" and viewed its music as "unmemorable".[30] Despite commending Rae for her singing, Hot Press critic Patrick Freyne gave it a rating of 1.5/5 in a negative review, perceiving session musicians' contributions and "excessive tastefulness" to the album as a significant weakness.[45] Freyne explained, writing "the record is elsewhere over-run with session musicians. Technically proficient but too often unburdened by human souls, session musicians spent much of the twentieth century digesting the ‘hard bits’ of pop before regurgitating it all in music that didn’t need hard bits in the first place. This phenomenon might be described as the ‘plague’ of session musicians."[45] Digital Spy critic Mayer Nissim gave it 3 out of 5 stars and wrote that it "shows real growth for Rae as a songwriter and musician", but viewed its "smooth production" as a flaw.[34] In a generally mixed review, The Observer's Graeme Thompson wrote that the album "is capable of being dull and flat, but at its most winning it provides glimpses of a new horizon shining beyond the riptides of pain and sorrow".[28] Spin's Mikael Wood called it "a darker, grittier effort suffused with a kind of shell-shocked melancholy", writing "Rae is most compelling when trying to distract herself from her loss".[46] Rolling Stone's Will Hermes gave it 3½ out of 5 stars and called it "both reckoning and rebirth".[29]

Uncut's Alastair McKay gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and praised Rae's singing, writing that she "has taken on board the way Nina Simone could flick a switch between absent-minded harmonising and entering the abyss".[47] MusicOMH columnist Rob Watson gave the album 4½ out of 5 stars and called it "a dense, lush and muti-faceted record, with Rae's melodic sensibilities mixing with much darker jazz and rock influences, and her carefree spirit tempered with a much more meditative approach".[48] The Independent's Andy Gill gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and compared it to the work of Laura Nyro, Marvin Gaye, and Joni Mitchell.[49] Craig McLean of The Daily Telegraph called it "the intense and moving result" of Rae's hiatus and described it as "an album that suggests Nina Simone singing a modern version of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks".[50] The Daily Telegraph, The Belfast Telegraph, and The Sunday Times gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and lauded its personal lyrical nature.[51][52][53] In comparing The Sea to Rae's debut album, Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe called it "richer, much less accessible, and marked by a sense of loss and introspection".[54] Newsday's Glen Gamboa gave The Sea an A rating and called it "far heavier, more substantial" than Rae's debut album.[27] Evening Standard writer John Aizlewood gave it 4 out of 4 stars and viewed the sense of loss in its themes as "allied to a musical adventurism which banishes for ever the blander aspects of her debut".[55] USA Today's Elysa Gardner perceived Rae as "more pensive" and "soulful" on The Sea than on her debut album.[31] The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan gave it 4 out of 5 stars and wrote "Rae has made an album she'll have trouble bettering".[25] Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers gave the album 4 out of 4 stars and wrote "The Sea is a remarkable accomplishment. It's a step toward something--Rae's inner peace, and her next artistic breakthrough--that has its own considerable rewards".[26]

The song 'Are You Here' was named the "number one essential track to download for the month of February" by Q Magazine.[56]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Are You Here"Corinne Bailey Rae4:13
2."I'd Do It All Again"Rae3:08
3."Feels Like the First Time"Rae3:13
4."The Blackest Lily"Rae3:38
5."Closer"Rae4:17
6."Love's on Its Way"Rae3:55
7."I Would Like to Call It Beauty"Rae, Philip Rae4:19
8."Paris Nights / New York Mornings"Rae3:51
9."Paper Dolls"Rae3:20
10."Diving for Hearts"Rae, Jennifer Birch4:51
11."The Sea"Rae4:05
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Little Wing" (iTunes exclusive)Jimi Hendrix4:07
13."It Be's That Way Sometime" (iTunes pre-order)Samuel Waymon3:28

Personnel

Credits for The Sea adapted from Allmusic.[57]

  • Steve Brown – co-producer
  • Steve Chrisanthou – co-producer
  • Rob Cremona - additional guitars and keyboards
  • Alex Cowper – artwork, design
  • Tom Elmhirst – mixing
  • Tierney Gearon – photography
  • Corinne Bailey Rae – producer
  • Ray Staff – mastering
  • Xavier Stephenson – mixing assistant

Chart history

Chart (2010) Peak
position
Canadian Albums Chart[21] 13
Dutch Albums Chart[22] 36
Irish Albums Chart[22] 33
Italian Album Chart[58] 73
Swiss Albums Chart 27
UK Albums Chart[19] 5
U.S. Billboard 200[16] 7
U.S. Billboard Top Digital Albums[18] 3
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[17] 2

Release history

Region Date Label
Japan 20 January 2010[6] EMI Music Japan
United States 26 January 2010[1] Capitol
United Kingdom 1 February 2010[7] EMI
Brazil 15 February 2010[8]

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