Forever (Cranes album) explained

Forever
Type:	studio
Artist:	Cranes
Cover:	CranesForever.jpg
Studio:	First Protocol (London)
Genre:	Dream pop^[1]
Label:	Dedicated
Producer:	Cranes
Prev Title:	Wings of Joy
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Loved
Next Year:	1994

Forever is the second studio album by English rock band Cranes. It was released on 26 April 1993 by Dedicated Records.^{[2] [3]}

Critical reception

Melody Maker ranked Forever as the 24th best album of 1993.^[4]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett stated that Forever saw Cranes building on the mixture of "elegant restraint" and "brusque power" that characterised their 1991 debut album Wings of Joy. He noted that Forever "went to extremes in both directions – the quieter moments were even more hushed and shadowed, the louder points all that much more whip-snap cruel." Trivia, but it may be a very rare example of an album whose titles, deliberate or not, form a sort of a sentence.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[5]

Cranes

• Matt Cope – guitar
• Mark Francombe – guitar, keyboards
• Alison Shaw – vocals, bass
• Jim Shaw – drums, guitar, keyboards, bass

Additional musicians

• The Falseharmonics – strings on "Golden"
• Audrey Riley – string arrangements on "Golden"

Production

• Cranes – production, engineering
• Giles Hall – engineering
• Marcus Lindsay – engineering
• Andy Wilkinson – engineering

Design

• Miles Aldridge – photography
• John Barnbrook – Cranes logo design
• Albert Tupelo – design

Notes and References

1. News: Listen to the Shimmering Cocteau Sound on the Band's Best Recordings . . 27 March 1994 . Hughley . Marty.
2. New Releases: Albums . . 24 April 1993 . 10 April 2021 . 12, 21.
3. Forever . 6 March 2021 . https://archive.today/20210306061315/https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71lwsptB+XL.jpg . 6 March 2021 . unfit . . 1993 . press advertisement.
4. Albums of the Year . . 25 December 1993 – 1 January 1994 . 77.
5. Forever . . . 1993 . DEDCD 009 . liner notes.
6. Independent: Albums . . 15 May 1993 . 28 May 2021 . 22.