Mezzamorphis
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| Studio album by Delirious? | ||||
| Released | 12 April 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998-1999 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, Christian rock, power pop | |||
| Length | 49:47 | |||
| Label | Furious? | |||
| Producer | Delirious? | |||
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North American version of Mezzamorphis
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| Source | Rating |
| Cross Rhythms |  |
| AllMusic |   |
| Q Magazine | |
| Jesus Freak Hideout |  |
| UNCUT magazine | |
| Rock Sound | |
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| Exit Zine | |
Mezzamorphis is the second studio album by Christian rock band Delirious?. Released in 1999, it represented a large step towards a more electronic and mainstream sound for the band and received a mostly positive critical reception. However, despite the critical acclaim, many former Delirious? fans disliked the album, claiming that the band had sold out to the secular industry.
Mezzamorphis spawned two UK singles, "See the Star" and "It's OK", both of which landed in the top 20 of the UK Singles Charts, whilst the album itself peaked at No. 25 on the UK Album Charts, giving Delirious? their second top 30 album in a row. The album has since been certified silver in the UK. In the US, "Gravity" was released as the lead single in promotion of the album.
Following their breakthrough 1997 album King of Fools, Delirious? started recording Mezzamorphis in February 1998, and continued to record throughout that year, interspersed with summer tours throughout the US and UK. The band began recording with roughly half the songs already written, and continued writing as they recorded. Most of the recording took place in an old school in West Sussex. In the words of lead vocalist Martin Smith, "We turned a classroom into a control room, and there were some wooden rooms where students used to dine, in which we set up a drum kit with different mike positions. We did the bulk of it there for the first six months in between touring. In the end, we went to a smaller studio in Ford just to finish it off." The band used movable drapes to experiment with different drum sounds and reverbs; most of the drums on the album are thus natural and unprocessed.
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