A Distant Shore | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Tracey Thorn |
Cover: | A_Distant_Shore.jpg |
Genre: | Acoustic |
Label: | Cherry Red |
Next Title: | Out of the Woods |
Next Year: | 2007 |
A Distant Shore is the first studio album by Tracey Thorn, released via Cherry Red Records in 1982.[1] It includes a cover version of The Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale".[2]
Recorded for just £138, the album reached number 1 in the UK Indie Chart in 1983.[3] In 2010, it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 100,000 copies throughout Europe.[4]
In a positive review for Sounds, Penny Kiley wrote "This record, musically understated as it is, provides a quiet and necessary counterpart to some of the choices of listening we’ve had. We’ve lived so long with melodrama that we’ve forgotten there are other ways of showing passion."[5]
Credits adapted from liner notes.