About Time (The Stranglers album)

About Time
Studio album by
the Stranglers
Released15 May 1995 (1995-05-15)
StudioRockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales
Parr Street Studios, Liverpool, UK
Westside Studios, London, UK
GenrePost-punk
Length44:54
LabelWhen!
Producer
The Stranglers chronology
Stranglers in the Night
(1993) 		About Time
(1995) 		Written in Red
(1997)
Singles from About Time
  1. "Lies and Deception"
    Released: June 1995[1][2]

About Time is the twelfth studio album from the Stranglers and the second one from the Black, Burnel, Greenfield, Roberts and Ellis line-up. The album was released in 1995 through the When! label. It was co-produced, engineered and mixed by Alan Winstanley, who had worked with the Stranglers on their first four albums (as the engineer on Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes and Black and White and producer on The Raven). Nigel Kennedy plays electric violin on "Face", and a string-quartet is used on three of the eleven tracks ("Face", "Still Life" and "Sinister").[3]

"Lies and Deception" was the only single released from the album, reaching No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart,[4] and is one of the few Stranglers songs solely written by drummer Jet Black. Released as a two-CD set, CD1 of "Lies and Deception" was backed with non-album tracks "Swim" and "Cool Danny", CD2 was backed with non-album tracks "Kiss the World Goodbye" and "Bed of Nails".[5][6][7][8]

The album peaked at No. 31 in the UK Albums Chart in May 1995.[9]

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  9. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 535. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.