Limited Deluxe two CD edition includes bonus disc of rarities & live tracks. 2023 studio release from the Britpop band. Given encouragement by the tremendous reception of last year's live return and first album in more than two decades, the three-piece return with Eight. Marking perhaps their busiest ever year in 2023, the band makes up for lost time having been missing from the musical map since 1998 prior to reforming in 2021 and releasing their seventh album, Keep On With Falling, last March. Where last year's album, joyful in tone yet brooding with heavyweight lyrical themes, came together as an exploration of the isolated ideas of each member, Eight is, according to vocalist and co-songwriter, Sice formed of songs recorded "purposefully to appear together on an album." Before adding, "There is also a greater depth of integration, which means that it's more difficult to tell which member of the band the song originated with." Reflecting on Seeker, the new album's opening track, written about leaning on those we trust to share life's highs and lows, bassist and co-songwriter, Tim Brown says: "This song started out as a three-chord synth pop tune and mutated into a brassy bop courtesy of trumpeter, Nick Etwell. The electric guitar flourishes were added by Louis Smith before Sice added layers of backing vocals which help drive the song along and bring it to it's joyful conclusion."
1. Seeker 2. The Unconscious 3. Hollow 4. Skeleton Woman 5. Sorrow (I Just Want to Be Free) 6. Sometimes I Sleep 7. Swift's Requiem 8. The Way I Am 9. A Shadow Darker Than the Rest 10. Wash Away That Feeling 11. When I Find It Hard 12. Now That's What I Call Obscene 13. How Was I to Know 14. Seeker (Full Version) 15. Skeleton Woman (Extended Version) 16. Sometimes I Sleep (Alternative Version) 17. A Shadow Darker Thank the Rest (Piano Version) 18. The Hollow (Alternative Version) 19. I Won't Be There with You 20. That Ain't a Way of Life 21. Now I Know 22. All Thing Must Pass - Live at the Cavern 2022 23. Spaniard - Live at the Cavern 2022 24. Find the Answer Within - Live at the Cavern 2022
