Life in Mono (album)

This article is about the Emma Bunton album. For the song with the same name, see Life in Mono.
Life in Mono
Studio album by Emma Bunton
Released 4 December 2006
Recorded 2005–06
Genre
Label Universal Music
Producer
  • Simon Franglen
  • Gary Clark
  • Eric Pressly
Emma Bunton chronology
Free Me
(2004)		 Life in Mono
(2006)
Singles from Life in Mono
  1. "Downtown"
    Released: 13 November 2006
  2. "All I Need to Know"
    Released: 12 February 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Digital Spy[2]
MSNPositive[3]
musicOMH[4]
The Guardian[5]
Yahoo! Music UK[6]

Life in Mono is the third studio album by English pop singer Emma Bunton. The album was originally set for a November 2006 release in the UK, however it was later pushed back to 4 December 2006. Much like her previous album, Free Me, the album experiments with elements of 1960s pop music. For this particular album the musical arrangement was more directed towards 1960s French pop music, with some elements of British 1960s pop and Motown. Reviews for the album were mostly positive.

Background

Bunton had been working on her third release since winter 2004. The album's title track is a cover version of the hit "Life in Mono" by 1990s trip hop band Mono, best known through its usage in the 1998 film Great Expectations. The track "Take Me to Another Town" contains a sample from Herb Alpert's 1965 "Green Peppers". Songs recorded during this period that did not appear on the final album include "Crazy", "Rhapsody", and "Secrets".

Due to Bunton's pregnancy all forms of promotion were cancelled after a few months. Rumors of a third single surfaced through sites after Bunton stated she was thinking of releasing a third single, however this never came. The album tracks "I Wasn’t Looking (When I Found Love)", "Perfect Strangers" and "Take Me to Another Town" were rumoured as choices for the third single.

Singles

Chart performance

Although it sold almost 13,000 copies in its first week, the album was Emma's first not to reach the UK top 10. It debuted on the UK Albums Chart at No. 65 on 10 December 2006, falling to No. 75 in its second week and dropped out of the chart the following week. The album sold around 60,000 copies in UK.[7]

Track listing

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Life in Mono.

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "All I Need to Know"  
  • Emma Bunton
  • Jamie Hartman
 4:18
2. "Life in Mono"  
  • John Barry
  • Martin Virgo
 3:48
3. "Mischievous"  
 3:41
4. "Perfect Strangers"  
  • Emma Bunton
  • Gary Clark
  • Pam Sheyne
 3:31
5. "He Loves Me Not"  
  • Emma Bunton
  • Yak Bondy
 3:28
6. "I Wasn't Looking (When I Found Love)"  
  • Emma Bunton
  • Pascal Gabriel
  • Hannah Robinson
 3:31
7. "Take Me to Another Town"  
  • Gary Clark
  • Keely Pressly
  • Eric Pressly
 4:08
8. "Undressing You"  
  • Tim Kellett
  • Kate Elsworth
 3:21
9. "I'm Not Crying Over Yesterdays"  
  • Emma Bunton
  • Blair Mackichan
  • Justin Gray
 3:23
10. "All That You'll Be"  
  • Emma Bunton
  • Peter Gordeno
  • Chris Porter
 4:00
11. "Downtown"  Tony Hatch 3:24
12. "Something Tells Me (Something's Going to Happen)"  
  • Roger Cook
  • Roger Greenaway
 3:41
13. "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"  
  • Osvaldo Farrés
  • Joe Davis
 2:30
14. "Por Favor"  
  • Noel Sherman
  • Joe Sherman
 2:35

B-side

Title Single B-side Producer(s) Length
"Midnight and Martinis" All I Need to Know Single Lee Dagger, Marc JB 4:14

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Scottish Albums Chart[8] 69
UK Albums Chart 65

References

  1. ↑ Mawer, Sharon. "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  2. ↑ Zendle, Miriam (4 December 2006). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (Digitalspy Review)". Digitalspy. Archived from the original on 17 January 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (MSN Review)". MSN. 1 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Murphy, John (4 December 2006). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (musicOMH Review)". musicOMH. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Macpherson, Alex (1 December 2006). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (The Guardian Review)". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ Gill, Jaime (3 January 2007). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (LAUNCH Yahoo!ardian Review)". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 13 January 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Emily Smith (18 May 2013). 2006-08:Life in Mono and the return of the Spice Girls. Google Books. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/scottish-albums-chart/20061210/40
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