Glorious (Foxes album)
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| Studio album by Foxes | ||||||||||
| Released | 12 May 2014 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2011–13 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop, synthpop | |||||||||
| Length | 44:57 | |||||||||
| Label | Sign of the Times, Epic, RCA | |||||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 61/100 |
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| Clash | 7/10 |
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| The Line of Best Fit | 8/10 |
| NME | 6/10 |
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Glorious is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Foxes, originally due for release on 28 February 2014, but was pushed back to 12 May 2014, in favour of releasing the album simultaneously worldwide. The album is available in three versions; the standard album, a deluxe version and a limited edition vinyl.
After a spate of successful songs, appearing as a "featured" artist alongside Zedd, Fall Out Boy, Sub Focus and Rudimental as well as a successful single in "Youth", Foxes (Allen) showed intent at releasing a full album to steer away from the "featured artist" title. In an interview with Billboard, she stated the reason was "[...]Because I also have my music that's my baby." In an interview during the "Making of the Album" video featured on her VEVO page on YouTube, Allen calls the album "extremely personal", as well that its influence is from her childhood as well as growing up. She also claims the album is "me talking to myself", as music to her is a "form of therapy".
From the same video, Allen described her process for making the songs, in which she stated "I feel like the song already exists" and "I start with a big white piece of paper and I'll just write things I'm feeling[...]It kind of comes out of nowhere."
The track list features several new songs, as well as two songs featured on her first EP Warrior (2012) ("In Her Arms" and "White Coats").
The album was released on 12 May 2014, in both digital and physical formats.
Although not classed as part of the promotion to the run up to Glorious, "Holding onto Heaven" was made available for free on iTunes during the month of December 2013.
Until February 12th of 2016, the album has sold 77,811 copies in UK.
On 17 April 2014, Amazon Artist Lounge - EP was released to download from Amazon for free. It contains live versions of "Let Go for Tonight", "Youth" and "Holding onto Heaven".
Foxes embarked on a 16-date tour in England, Scotland and Ireland, which started 24 February 2014 and ended on 24 May 2014.
"Youth" was released as the album's lead single on 6 September 2013. The song reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.
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