One Cell in the Sea
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| Studio album by A Fine Frenzy | ||||
| Released | July 17, 2007 | |||
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| Length | 61:44 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Lukas Burton, Hal Cragin | |||
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| AbsolutePunk.net | (77%) |
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| Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
| Paste | (favorable) |
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One Cell in the Sea is the first studio album by A Fine Frenzy, the stage name of American singer-songwriter Alison Sudol, released under Virgin Records on July 17, 2007. The album debuted at #158 on the Billboard 200 and later peaked at #91.
Sudol made a demo tape consisting of songs on One Cell in the Sea, which eventually fell into the hands of the CEO of Virgin Records. After listening to the tape, the CEO flew to Sudol's mother's home in Los Angeles to listen to her play. According to Sudol, he responded most positively to "Rangers," a track she considers "obscure and weird," so she found the label to be understanding.
The album title comes from a lyric in "The Minnow and the Trout" because Sudol felt the phrase "summed up everything." During a March 2008 interview with The Ledger, she stated the following of the title:
It's the beginning of something, it's the loneliness that I felt when I was making this album, because a lot of the writing of it was done late at night when everyone else was out doing their own thing. I wouldn't have wanted to be out, but it was a feeling of everybody being someone else, and you're lonely. And also it's the unity that we all have from basic human emotions and we all came from somewhere, so we're all connected. And that's how I tied everything together.
"Lifesize" was released as the lead single from One Cell in the Sea on April 3, 2007 via iTunes. The second single was "Almost Lover", released on May 22. In the United States, the song reached peak positions of #23 on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, #62 on the Hot Digital Songs chart, #76 on the Pop 100 chart, and #9 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. The single peaked at #5 in Austria, #8 in Germany, and #10 in Switzerland. Two music videos were created for the song. The first video, directed by Laurent Briet, shows Sudol playing a piano in the forest, sitting in the middle of a stream. Later, rocks start to fly up into the sky, and viewers see parts of the piano detach from each other. In the second video, which was directed by the Nee Brothers, viewers see Sudol behind glass doors, with Sudol playing a dirty piano as she recalls her 'almost lover' from the past. The video was later edited to fit a new video mix ("Almost Lover Remix Domestic"). "Come On, Come Out" was released as third single on April 29, 2008.
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