Album

Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?

Paloma Faith

2009 · Rock, Funk / Soul

Rare pressing on Gatefold

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Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? by Paloma Faith

Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? is a Pop album by Paloma Faith, originally released in 2009. On Gatefold: 15 pressings tracked.

About

That Paloma Faith has a background in theater and burlesque is no surprise—the songs on her debut are brash and dramatic, seductively beckoning with a crushed-velvet tableaux of bruised hearts and broken promises. Though Faith trades in the stylized R&B popularized by compatriots like Amy Winehouse and Duffy, her take is more flamboyant and eccentric. She draws as much from Baz Luhrmann’s widescreen fantasias in the love-gone-wrong song “New York” as she does from sirens of yore.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Stone Cold Sober2:54
  2. 2Smoke and Mirrors3:06
  3. 3Broken Doll4:07
  4. 4Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?4:35
  5. 5Upside Down3:09
  6. 6Romance Is Dead3:04
  7. 7New York (Radio Edit)3:39
  8. 8Stargazer3:45
  9. 9My Legs Are Weak4:48
  10. 10Play On4:03
  11. 11Press Lightly3:31
  12. 12Stone Cold Sober (Live at the ICA)3:00
  13. 13New York (Live at the ICA)3:20

Sound DNA

  • Pop
  • Dance-Pop
  • polished
  • triumphant
  • theatrical

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Some copies were issued with a round sticker on front case: Includes | Stone Cold | Sober & | New York | 88697543552

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Ali FriendBASS
  • Amy LangleySTRINGS
  • Amy StanfordSTRINGS VIOLA
  • Andy NewmarkDRUMS
  • Ben CastleTENOR SAXOPHONE, CLARINET
  • Bryon JonesBACKING VOCALS
  • Candace JohnsonBACKING VOCALS
  • Carol RileyBACKING VOCALS
  • David CampbellARRANGED BY
  • Dee Dee WildeBACKING VOCALS
  • Dominic GloverHORNS TRUMPET, ARRANGED BY
  • Donna AllenBACKING VOCALS
  • Edith LangleyBACKING VOCALS
  • Emily McEwanBACKING VOCALS
  • Fiona BriceVIOLIN
  • Gita HarcourtSTRINGS VIOLIN, BACKING VOCALS
  • Hadrian GarrardTRUMPET
  • Harriet WiltshireCELLO

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 15 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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