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| Released = June [[2009]] |
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| Genre = [[Art rock]] |
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Thin Air is British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill's 30th solo album, released on his own Fie! Records label in June 2009. It was made available both in physical format and as digital download through Burning Shed Records.
As on his previous release, Singularity, Hammill played all instruments, wrote all the songs and produced the album.
The main theme of the album is disappearance, as Hammill told British music magazine Mojo in February 2009. [1] "(...) it became apparent fairly quickly that strong thematic links were running through the songs' lyrics: disappearance, change, loss, dislocation in various forms were stitched through all of them." Another image reappearing in several songs is the one of the World Trade Center along with images of planes, though Hammill denies that these images would be direct references to 9/11.[2]
Musically, Thin Air follows the experimental sound Hammill re-discovered during the recording of Singularity, the distorted guitars and sometimes disturbing sound textures not dissimilar to his late '70s - early '80s work, especially his 1980 LP A Black Box.
The album's cover was again created by Paul Ridout, using stills from his video work "Minutely Observed Horizon". [3]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Peter Hammill
- "The Mercy" - 6:21
- "Your Face on the Street" - 5:21
- "Stumbled" - 4:48
- "Wrong Way Round" - 2:40
- "Ghosts of Planes" - 5:23
- "If We Must Part Like This" - 4:38
- "Undone" - 4:25
- "Diminished" - 6:11
- "The Top of the World Club" - 7:03
