Wishville
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| Studio album by Catherine Wheel | ||||
| Released | 23 May 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 at Helioscentric Studio in Rye, East Sussex, England | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 40:29 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Rob Dickinson | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 54/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Pitchfork | 1.7/10 |
| Dotmusic | 8/10 |
Wishville is the fifth and final album by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. Released in 2000, it is the band's only album not to feature bassist Dave Hawes, who was fired prior to its recording; without a permanent bassist, the band focuses on guitar-centered hard rock arrangements. The album's primary single released was "Sparks Are Gonna Fly".
Wishville was also released in a deluxe edition featuring special packaging and a second CD of live recordings, recorded live 11 July 2000 in New York.
The sleeve's designer Storm Thorgerson said: "An underrated band, in our view, with whom we had a fruitful yet turbulent relationship – a high point being Chrome and a low point being Wishville, wherein they kept disputing the idea, and in the end used the wrong version anyway. So here's the right version (on the Classic Rock calendar on which this comment appears), which alludes well to their layers of artistic intent, especially in regards to perception and dimension of human relationships, their music being perverse, obsessive yet lyrical." NB: the "right version" is virtually indistinguishable from the released version.
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