Straight No Chaser (Mr Hudson album)
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| Studio album by Mr Hudson | ||||
| Released | 19 October 2009 | |||
| Genre | Electropop, alternative hip hop, R&B | |||
| Label | GOOD, Mercury | |||
| Producer | Mr Hudson, Kanye West, The Bullitts | |||
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| Metacritic | 63/100 link |
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| AllMusic |   |
| BBC | favourable link |
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| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 link |
| NME | 2/10 link |
Straight No Chaser is the second studio album by British pop musician Mr Hudson, a follow-up to the last album released under the name Mr Hudson & The Library entitled A Tale of Two Cities. Straight No Chaser was released in the UK on 19 October 2009. It was released in the United States on 29 June 2010.
Sessions first started at Gizzard Studios in Bow, East London, with the album being engineered by Ed Deegan, however the Library (Mr Hudson's backing band) were soon fired and tapes were shelved when Mr Hudson was then flown to the Bahamas to record a new album with Kanye West. In an interview, singer Ben Hudson was asked to describe the album: "My mission statement was to make a pop record, but not a throwaway pop record. My heroes are people like Bowie and Prince and Damon Albarn. I didn't want to do anything niche. Kanye threw down the gauntlet. He said, 'Let's see if we can make you a popstar'. I was like 'Let's have a go!'. It's a bit more widescreen, a bit more punchy, but the eclecticism of the first record's still there. There's a tune where I'm a cross between Deliverance and Sade".
Straight No Chaser debuted at #25 in the United Kingdom on 25 October 2009.
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