The majority of the album was recorded by Mads Bjerke (Spiritualized, Primal Scream, Girls Aloud) and mixed by Bill Price (Sex Pistols, The Clash, Sparks). Two tracks were recorded and mixed by Graham Sutton
(The Delays, Bark Psychosis) and Phill Brown (Sly Stone, Led Zeppelin, Talk Talk).
British Sea Power’s debut album, The Decline Of British Sea Power, was released in 2003. To date it has sold 50,303* copies in Great Britain and a little over 200,000 worldwide. In a universe where Saturn lies 746,000,000
miles distant and the nice young men in Maroon 5 can sell 6.5 million CDs, these are maybe not astronomical figures. However, please bear with us. We would like you to entertain the possibility that British Sea Power have sown the wind and are about
to reap the whirlwind.
Over the past two years, British Sea Power have toured the world with a series of excellent groups including The Flaming Lips, The Strokes, Interpol, Pulp, The Killers, The Duke Spirit and The Copper Family. Over the same period,
British Sea Power’s debut album has been acclaimed by a varied set that includes David Bowie, Bill Oddie, Radiohead, Jeremy Vine, Lou Reed, Ludovic Kennedy, REM, Ian Rankin, Julian Cope, Jon Savage, Daniel Radcliffe and Damien Hirst
Perhaps this endeavour will now bring its reward. Perhaps British Sea Power have made an album that lies exactly midway between Julian Casablancas and Julian Cope - an album with both lustrous pop thrill and ambitious,
intelligent rock scale. An album where they sing of girls and guillotines, love and Larsen B, the foremost of all the collapsing Antarctic ice shelves. Perhaps British Sea Power have done all of this. It’s Open Season and maybe anything is
possible.
*Please note that this figure is for actual over-the-counter sales, where people have bought records with money - not to be confused with the popular music-industry parlour game where a thousand, ten thousand, 100,000 sales are
joyfully bolted on to better boil the pot.
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