Lament (Ultravox album)
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| Studio album by Ultravox | ||||
| Released | 6 April 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 1983–1984 | |||
| Studio | Musicfest Studios in London | |||
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| Length | 37:29 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||
| Producer | Ultravox | |||
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Lament is the seventh studio album by British new wave band Ultravox, released in the UK on 6 April 1984. It was the last album featuring original drummer Warren Cann until the band's reunion album Brilliant in 2012. The album peaked at #8 on the UK album chart and was certified Gold by the BPI in June 1984 for 100,000 copies sold. It also reached #25 in Germany and #115 in the United States.
The album's sound saw the band continuing to move away from the synthpop style associated with their previous albums, heading into a more mainstream pop rock direction, not entirely dissimilar to contemporaries such as Simple Minds and U2 featuring greater use of guitar and 'stadium' reverb.
The album's initial release on CD featured a different track-listing to the initial release on vinyl as the songs were interspersed with remixes. When the album was next re-released on CD in 1999, it featured the original track-listing with seven bonus tracks consisting of various B-sides and remixes from the Lament period added to the end of the album.
The album was once again re-released in 2009 as a double CD set. The first disc consisted of the original album remastered. The second disc contained remixes, B-sides and previously unreleased "work in progress" versions of songs.
All songs written by Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, and Midge Ure.
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