Get In Explained

Get In
Type:Album
Artist:Kenickie
Cover:GetIn_Album.jpg
Released:25 August 1998
Recorded:1998 at Strongroom, Wessex and Matrix in London
Genre:Alternative rock, Britpop, indie pop, dance pop, disco, Hi-NRG
Length:56:22
Label:EMI
Producer:Adrian Bushby, Pete Gofton and Andy Carpenter
Prev Title:At the Club
Prev Year:1997

Get In is the second and final studio album by the British alternative rock band Kenickie. It was released on 25 August 1998[1] and reached number thirty-two on the UK Albums Chart.[2] Get In includes the singles "I Would Fix You" and "Stay in the Sun".

Production and release

The album was produced by Adrian Bushby and band-member Peter Gofton, except "I Would Fix You" which was produced by Bushby and Gofton with Andy Carpenter. Having been moved from the closed EMI subsidiary EMIdisc, the album was first released on CD and Cassette by the parent label. The album was re-released in February 2012 by Eastworld with seven bonus tracks. The artwork was designed by Nick Edwards.

Critical reception

Get In received generally positive reviews. In Melody Maker, Everett True praised it as "a most ravishing record" and contrasted the dark tone of the album's lyrics with its upbeat music, which he called "some of the most gorgeous, succulent pop around". NME reviewer Victoria Segal wrote: "This is the sound of a band refusing to play the game set out for them – attractive blonde singer, chirpy attitude, ladders to the top – risking a slide down the snakes instead ... the exuberant, lip-glossed evil of 'Punka' has been replaced by the maturity shorthand of strings and synths, flamenco flamboyance kicking up alongside deadpan electro, Shangrai-La's drumbeats booming next to high-kicking pastiche. It's often audaciously bleak ... but they aren't stupid enough to go to the other Svengali-approved extreme and dress up as tragic divas. If it's messy, it's because the situation described in 'I Would Fix You' is messy; if it's brave, it's never foolish."

Broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph also praised the album:

Personnel

Kenickie
Other personnel

B-sides

from "I Would Fix You"
from "Stay in the Sun"

The main single version of "Stay In The Sun" is also a different mix to the album version, with prominent additional percussion and piano parts.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Get In [Bonus Tracks] - Kenickie Release Info AllMusic]. .
  2. Book: Roberts , David . 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 299.