SuperHeavy (album)
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| Studio album by SuperHeavy | ||
| Released | 16 September 2011 | |
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Jim Henson Studios (Los Angeles, California) |
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| Genre | Rock, reggae, Indian pop, soul | |
| Length | 52:56 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Producer | Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart | |
| Singles from SuperHeavy | ||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 52/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    |
| The A.V. Club | D |
| The Daily Telegraph | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| The Guardian | |
| The Independent | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The New York Times | mixed |
| The Observer | |
| Rolling Stone | |
SuperHeavy is the debut album by the rock supergroup SuperHeavy. The album was recorded at Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles and it was released in September 2011 by A&M Records.
SuperHeavy began work on the album in 2009. In early 2009, Mick Jagger, Damian Marley, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart and A. R. Rahman experimented at a studio in Los Angeles, trying to "write songs which had meaning". They had a couple of more sessions after that trying to perfect every song that was written. Jagger stated in an interview that "they had entered with just ideas, a few guitar riffs and a few snippets of lyrics... which isn't his usual style of working, but music evolved quickly." The band recorded twenty-nine songs in ten days. Some of the songs recorded were even an hour long. In total, there was more than thirty-five hours of music recorded, from which Stewart and his engineer found the highlights that would work as the roots of songs. However, the CD release only included twelve songs.
The band got together at Los Angeles's Jim Henson Studios on 30 June 2011 to preview the album. The preview began with a short documentary showing SuperHeavy recording at the studio. The band played eight of the recorded songs at the event.
"Miracle Worker" was released on iTunes as the album's lead single on 7 July 2011. It is a reggae song performed by Marley, Stone and Jagger. The single entered at number 195 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was released on YouTube on 12 August 2011. Directed by Stewart and filmed at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, the video features all five members of the band.
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