Wilderness Is Paradise Now
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| Studio album by Morning Runner | ||||
| Released | 6 March 2006 | |||
| Recorded | Rockfield Studio, Monmouth and Sawmills Studio, Cornwall 2005 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 42:47 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | John Cornfield | |||
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Wilderness Is Paradise Now was the debut and only album by Reading based English rock band Morning Runner. Preceded by the release of single "Burning Benches", the album was released on 6 March 2006, and, despite failing to make a significant impact commercially, it gained generally favourable reviews.
All tracks written by Ali Clewer, Tom Derrett, Matthew Greener and Chris Wheatcroft.
The name of the album came from a romantic rhyme by Edward FitzGerald, translated from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
Ali Clewer, the band's drummer, read the poem and believed it corresponded well with the album: "The poem describes a place that is a wilderness becoming paradise because of the person who is keeping you company," Clewer explained, "a kind of optimism that seemed to resonate with many of the ideas on the album."
The album's cover art was designed by Tappin Gofton, who created the cover for Coldplay's third album, X&Y, and The Chemical Brothers' Push the Button.
The artwork was inspired by a small collection of Victorian book illustrations. The kind of imagery that Tappin Gofton were looking at in these old volumes was noticeably decorative, with many of the pieces displaying strong narrative themes, and it was these two distinct elements that formed the foundations for their ideas. Once they had agreed on the overall thematic look for the covers and a set of ideas for each release, they commissioned the illustrator Kam Tang, who they collaborated with to produce the drawings for the artwork.
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