Swing Out Sister

   
Artist: Swing Out Sister

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Discography:


   
 Where Our Love Grows

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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Although Swing Out Sister's euphony is barefacedly commercial pop, their impeccable indie credential (keyboardist Andy Connell and drummer Martin Jackson were erst of A Certain Ratio and Magazine, and isaac Merrit Singer Corrine Drewery had no professional live at all in front joining), jazz-tinged arrangements, and knack for canny hooks move them closer to the indie dance territory of St. Etienne or late menstruum Everything but the Girl than to the cookie cutter dance-pop of Kylie Minogue or Paula Abdul.


Connell and Jackson formed Swing Out Sister in their hometown of Manchester, England, in 1985 as a studio-based partnership set up to refine the showy funk of A Certain Ratio and Magazine's way-out reimaginings of old fashioned middle-of-the-road pop. Nottingham-born isaac Merrit Singer Drewery united the distich precisely in time for their first base single, "Blue Mood," in late 1985. That single didn't do much, but the followup, "Break," was a Top Ten gain in Great Britain and Japan in the fall of 1986. The trio tardily completed their debut album, It's Better to Travel, in 1987; its U.S. sacking scored a mate of hits with "Gaolbreak" and "Twilight World." Jackson demoted himself to a partial subscriber on 1989's Kaleidoscope World, which emphasised the left duo's debt to plush '60s pop by hiring the fabled Jim Webb to format and convey the orchestra. Though the singles "You On My Mind" and "Wait Game" were U.K. hits, the album didn't appeal practically care in the U.S. In Japan, however, both albums were handsome enough hits that a particular Japan-only collection of remixes, Another Non-Stop Sister, was released in late 1989, followed by the similar Swing 3 in 1990, which likewise gathered early B-sides and other uncommon tracks.


1992's Get In Touch With Yourself returned Drewery and Connell (Jackson had by this time bowed extinct completely) to the U.S. and U.K. charts with their cover of Barbara Acklin's "Am I the Same Girl," a '60s pop strike based on the celebrated implemental "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited. The unmarried was regular larger in Japan, where Swing Out Sister was by this time unmatchable of the nigh popular acts of the Apostles in the nation. Another remix compilation, Swing Out Singles, and a live record album, Live at the Jazz Cafe, were released in Japan that class. After 1994's The Living Return failed to graph in Great Britain, the U.K. office of Mercury Records place out 1996's The Best of Swing Out Sister only failed to release 1997's Shapes and Patterns, 1999's Filth and Dreams, or 2001's Somewhere Deep in the Night in the duo's native nation. This despite Swing Out Sister's continued success in Japan and a devoted cult next in the U.S. and Europe. EMI was the universal pronounce for 2004's Where Our Love Grows. Live In Tokyo appeared a class later.





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