A Storm in Heaven is the debut studio album by English rock band The Verve (at the time just called Verve), released in June 1993. It charted at #27 in the UK.
Like the band's prior EPs and singles, most of the songs on this album are bathed in heavy layers of delay (echo) and reverb, used on both the guitars and the vocals, in order to give a disorientingly psychedelic overall effect.
"Star Sail" appeared on the soundtrack album for the 1993 mov...
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A Storm in Heaven is the debut studio album by English rock band The Verve (at the time just called Verve), released in June 1993. It charted at #27 in the UK.
Like the band's prior EPs and singles, most of the songs on this album are bathed in heavy layers of delay (echo) and reverb, used on both the guitars and the vocals, in order to give a disorientingly psychedelic overall effect.
"Star Sail" appeared on the soundtrack album for the 1993 movie Sliver.
The lyrics of "Butterfly" [e.g., "You could flap your wings a thousand miles away/ You could take the storm away, forever every day"] pertain directly to the so-called Butterfly effect. (The song "Catching The Butterfly," from the band's 1997 album Urban Hymns, is apparently a continuation of this theme.)
The album's closing song is built on a subdued piano motif played by guitarist Nick McCabe.
Like all of the band's releases, A Storm in Heaven features enigmatic artwork. The album's cover photo was shot inside Thor's Cave in...
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