{"product_id":"flunk-morning-star-expanded-cd","title":"Flunk - Morning Star Expanded [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: BS074XCD\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5050580787629\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 25 Nov 2022\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Rock\/Pop\/Singer Songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01. Play\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e02. Morning Star\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e03. On My Balcony\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e04. Spring To Kingdom Come\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e05. Six Seven Times\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e06. All Day And All Of The Night\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e07. I've Been Waiting All My Life To Leave You\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e08. Blind My Mind\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e09. Everything Is Ending Here\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. Kemikal Girl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. Skysong\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12. True Faith\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13. Probably\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e14. All My Dreams On Hold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the autumn of 2003, Flunk - then consisting of producer\/vocalist Ulf Nygaard, singer Anja Øyen Vister, guitarist Jo Bakke and drummer Erik Ruud - booked in at the Hotel de Roubaix in Paris. The framework for their second album \"Morning Star\" was recorded during a busy week in the Paris hotel room, before being worked out and finished in their Oslo studio early 2004.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album was licensed to Kriztal Recordings in the USA the following year, and their version of the album included five tracks not on the original Beatservice Records versions, and omitting the Kinks cover \"All Day and All Of The Night\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn this expanded edition of the album, all of the US bonus tracks are included to the original Beatservice Records tracklisting, making it a 14 track album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo cover song are included: The Kinks' \"All Day and All Of The Night\", performed as a duet by Anja and Ulf. The cover is the most up-tempo track on the album, capturing the energy of the original Kinks' classic in Flunk's slightly odd way. There is also an acoustic live-in-studio version of New Order's \"True Faith\". But most of all \"Morning Star\" includes very strong original material. Both the title track \"Morning Star\", and the singles \"On My Balcony\" and \"Blind My Mind\" showcases the songwriting talents of Flunk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe track \"Play\" didn't make it on the original release of the album. But the band did a total makeover of it for the US release, and the track ended up as the feature song in an episode of the show \"The O.C.\", and on the fourth \"The O.C.\" compilation album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther tracks included from the US version of \"Morning Star\" are the beautiful \"Probably\" (originally recorded for the debut album \"For Sleepyheads Only\"), the New Order classic, \"True Faith\" (a different version than the b-side to \"On My Balcony\"), the poppy \"Skysong\" and the lush \"All My Dreams On Hold\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Folk electronica\" has been used by a.o. american press to describe Flunk, and on the \"Morning Star\" album, they have evolved this further. The album is pure indie pop, less electronica - all tracks built around Jo's trademark guitar sound and the voice of Anja Øyen Vister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Morning Star\" is an instantly tuneful pop injection, now further expanded and with a new superb sounding 2022 24-bit re-master.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beatservice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41814835429532,"sku":"BS074XCD","price":14.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_9bb40680-3117-45a0-9fa2-f191380ba903.jpg?v=1659435589","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/flunk-morning-star-expanded-cd","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}