Love Is Here

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For the single by The Supremes, see Love Is Here and Now You're Gone.
Love Is Here
Love is Here Starsailor.jpg
Studio album by Starsailor
Released October 8, 2001
Genre Indie rock, piano rock
Length 57:19
Label EMI
Producer Mark Aubrey
Steve Osborne
Starsailor
Starsailor chronology
Love Is Here
(2001)		 Silence Is Easy
(2003)Silence Is Easy2003
Singles from Love Is Here
  1. "Fever"
    Released: February 5, 2001
  2. "Good Souls"
    Released: April 23, 2001
  3. "Alcoholic"
    Released: September 17, 2001
  4. "Lullaby"
    Released: December 10, 2001
  5. "Poor Misguided Fool"
    Released: March 18, 2002

Love Is Here is the debut studio album by indie rock band Starsailor, released on 8 October 2001. In 2002, Love Is Here was certified as platinum in the UK.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 72/100[2]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[3]
Drowned in Sound 6/10[4]
NME 8/10[5]
Pitchfork Media 5.7/10.0[6]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[7]
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars[8]

Upon its release, Love Is Here received some critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 72, based on 19 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

Q listed Love Is Here as one of the best 50 albums of 2001,[9] while NME rated it as the fifth best album of the year.[10]

Track listing

  1. "Tie Up My Hands" – 5:46
  2. "Poor Misguided Fool" – 3:51
  3. "Alcoholic" – 2:56
  4. "Lullaby" – 4:13
  5. "Way to Fall" – 4:30
  6. "Fever" – 4:03
  7. "She Just Wept" – 4:12
  8. "Talk Her Down" – 4:11
  9. "Love Is Here" – 4:41
  10. "Good Souls" – 4:53
  11. "Coming Down" – 14:30 (song ends at 3:07)

The album also includes a hidden track at 13:35 of the track "Coming Down", consisting of under a minute of humming from the band members. The humming is an alternate take of background accompaniment for the song "Coming Down.

Chart position

Country Peak
position		 Certification Sales
Italy[11] 20 - -
United Kingdom 2 Platinum 550000+

Personnel

In popular culture

  • The song "Way to Fall" is played during the ending credits of the 2004 video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Director Hideo Kojima hand-picked the song for the game's soundtrack, apparently having discovered the group by accident while looking for another group.

References

  1. ↑ Starsailor Awards :: Music - For Your Information :: Starsailor Awards @ Mfyi.com
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  7. ↑ Rolling Stone review Archived October 30, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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