Name: Stop All the World Now [Special Edition. Slipcase]
Brand: Epic (USA)
SKU: 1187874
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Stop All the World Now [Special Edition. Slipcase]

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Album: Stop All the World Now [Special Edition. Slipcase]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Brace Yourself
2)	Perfect Time of Day
3)	Collide
4)	Trouble in Here
5)	Sunday Morning Song
6)	I'll Take You On
7)	She Says
8)	Numbness for Sound
9)	You & A Promise
10)	End of Our Days
11)	Come Lay Down
12)	This Time Around
13)	Standing in the Sun
14)	Brace Yourself - (acoustic)
15)	Collide - (acoustic)

Album: Stop All the World Now [Special Edition. Slipcase]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Brace Yourself
2)	Perfect Time of Day
3)	Collide
4)	Trouble in Here
5)	Sunday Morning Song
6)	I'll Take You On
7)	She Says
8)	Numbness for Sound
9)	You & A Promise
10)	End of Our Days
11)	Come Lay Down
12)	This Time Around
13)	Standing in the Sun
14)	Brace Yourself - (acoustic)
15)	Collide - (acoustic)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Howie Day (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano); Howie Day; Leslie Hall (guitar, tamboura, piano, harmonium, organ, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron, synthesizer, vibraphone); Les Hall (guitar, piano, Wurlitzer piano, harmonium, Mellotron, synthesizer, vibraphone, tambour); James Clifford, J. Clifford (guitar, background vocals); Simon Jones (bass guitar); Gareth Jones (programming); Laurie Jenkins (drums, percussion); Mark Heaney (drums).
Audio Mixers: Clive Goddard; Chris Lord-Alge; Michael Brauer.
Recording information: Olympic Studios, London, England.
Photographers: Adam Howe; Jake Chessum; Spencer Heyfron; Greg Waterman.
Though his first indie LP was subsequently reissued on Epic, this is Howie Day's first full-length album for a major label. If it's a bit less quirky than his previous MADRIGALS EP, it's also more confident-sounding and not quite as precious. Not that Day has abandoned his gentle, Coldplay-meets-Jeff Buckley folk-rock sound. It's simply that STOP ALL THE WORLD NOW, produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth, evens out Day's style a bit. The soaring, angelic falsetto is frequently accompanied by ascending dynamics and some forthright electric guitar backing. No one's going to mistake songs like the vibraphone-laden lazy-Sunday ballad "I'll Take You On" (from whose lyrics this album's title is drawn) for the Strokes or anything, but fans of the poppier side of Britpop might just take a fancy to this emotive singer-songwriter's modestly rocking mood music.

Professional Reviews

CMJ (10/20/03, p.8) - "...His brand of radio-friendly pop should keep him well paid and trailed by adoring fans for a long time....Jeff Buckley fans will find a lot to enjoy here..."