Higher Power (Big Audio Dynamite album)
Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Higher Power is the seventh album by Big Audio Dynamite (renamed Big Audio), released in 1994.[1][2] First released in the US on 8 November, it was then released in the UK the following week on 14 November 1994.[3][4] "Looking for a Song" was released as a single; it peaked at No. 24 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.[5][6] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[7]
Production
Many of its songs are about English middle class life.[8] Mick Jones was inspired by Bob Marley to include uplifting messages in Higher Power's songs.[9]
Critical reception
Template:Album ratings Trouser Press wrote that "Higher Power finds Jones and company operating at a decidedly lower level ... The hip dance-music sounds are there, but the tunes most certainly aren't."[10] Entertainment Weekly thought that the album "continues Jones' bid for currency by experimenting with the sounds of London's dance clubs ... The result is neither good rave nor good rock."[11]
The Knoxville News Sentinel called it "an alternative album at the core that absorbs a fun array of funk, pop and hip-hop influences for a distinctive and accessible blend."[12] The Calgary Herald determined that "it just bops along with riffs that are pleasant enough but lack any edge, any passion."[13]
Track listing
Personnel
Big Audio
- Mick Jones - guitar, vocals, producer
- Nick Hawkins - vocals, guitar, engineer
- André Shapps - keyboards, producer, engineer
- Gary Stonadge - bass, vocals
- Chris Kavanagh - drums, vocals
- Mickey Custance - DJ, vocals
Additional credits
- Ranking Roger - vocals
- Aki Omori, Loro Lucan - backing vocals on "Some People"
- Heathcote Williams - biographical editor
- John R.T. Davies - editing
- Arthur Baker - co-producer of track 6
- Würzel - photography
References
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