Moseley Shoals

Moseley Shoals
Studio album by
Ocean Colour Scene
Released8 April 1996
StudioMoseley Shoals (Birmingham, England)
GenreBritpop, alternative rock
Length54:27
LabelMCA
ProducerBrendan Lynch, Ocean Colour Scene
Ocean Colour Scene chronology
Ocean Colour Scene
(1992) 		Moseley Shoals
(1996) 		Marchin' Already
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Austin Chronicle[2]
Daily Herald[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Guardian[5]
Los Angeles Daily News[6]
NME5/10[7]
The Philadelphia Inquirer[8]
Record Collector[9]
The Tampa Tribune[10]

Moseley Shoals is the second album by the British rock group Ocean Colour Scene which was released during the Britpop era. The album reached #2 in the UK charts, and amassed 92 weeks on chart, making it the band's most successful album in terms of weeks on chart, despite a later album reaching #1.[11]

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Moseley Shoals – Ocean Colour Scene". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. ^ Hernandez, Raoul (15 November 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals (MCA)". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  3. ^ Review printed over two pages. Click on show article text to read prose.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). "Ocean Colour Scene". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  5. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (12 April 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals (MCA)". The Guardian. p. 41.
  6. ^ Shuster, Fred (13 September 1996). "Sound Check: Rock". Los Angeles Daily News. MediaNews Group. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2017 – via HighBeam Research.
  7. ^ Kessler, Ted (6 April 1996). "Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals". NME. IPC Media. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  8. ^ DeLuca, Dan (4 August 1996). "A guide to the explosion in pop music that's got the British all excited". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 161.
  9. ^ Atkins, Jamie (May 2011). "Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals: Deluxe Edition". Record Collector. No. 388. Diamond Publishing. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  10. ^ Ross, Curtis (10 January 1997). "Spin this". The Tampa Tribune.
  11. ^ Ocean Colour Scene full Official Chart History, Official Charts Company, retrieved 8 July 2016