A Northern Soul is the second studio album by English rock band The Verve. The album was released in the United States on June 20, 1995 and in the United Kingdom on July 3, 1995 (see 1995 in British music). The title is a reference to Northern Soul, a popular soul movement in Britain during the 1960s.
Following their performance at Lollapalooza in 1994, The Verve returned to their Wigan-based practice room to begin writing and recording songs for...
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A Northern Soul is the second studio album by English rock band The Verve. The album was released in the United States on June 20, 1995 and in the United Kingdom on July 3, 1995 (see 1995 in British music). The title is a reference to Northern Soul, a popular soul movement in Britain during the 1960s.
Following their performance at Lollapalooza in 1994, The Verve returned to their Wigan-based practice room to begin writing and recording songs for their second studio album. Commenting on the effect that working in the "dank rehearsal room" had on the band's songwriting process, frontman Richard Ashcroft stated:
Initially, the band tried to record the LP inside the rehearsal room itself, so that "they could record as they had been rehearsing", but, when this approach proved to be impossible, they relocated the recording sessions to rural Wales with producer Owen Morris. Tom Hiney, writing for The Guardian in September 1997, claimed that the band's experience of recording during this...
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