| Thirst for Romance | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cherry Ghost |
| Cover: | Thirstforromance.jpg |
| Released: | 9 July 2007 |
| Recorded: | 2006–2007 |
| Genre: | Indie rock, chamber pop |
| Length: | 49:27 69:10 (with hidden track) |
| Label: | Heavenly |
| Producer: | Simon Aldred and Dan Austin |
| Next Title: | Beneath This Burning Shoreline |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
Thirst for Romance is the debut album by Cherry Ghost, released on 9 July 2007 in the UK. The album was made available on CD, digital download, and double vinyl LP. It was recorded at Ape Studios in Cheshire and Moolah Rouge Studios in Stockport. The first single, "Mathematics", was released on 9 April 2007; the second single "People Help the People" was released on 25 June 2007, just two weeks ahead of the album's release date; and the third single was "4 AM", released on 24 September 2007. "Roses" was an iTunes "single of the week" for the week that the album was released. Thirst for Romance was co-produced by Simon Aldred and Dan Austin. Thirst for Romance entered the UK Albums Chart at #7 upon its first week.[1]
Jimi Goodwin of the band Doves plays drums on "People Help the People" and "Mathematics". In December 2005, when Jimi was acting as a guest host on a BBC Radio 1 show, he featured the then-up-and-coming Cherry Ghost (at the time an alias for the solo performances of Simon Aldred). Simon performed two tracks live and acoustic in the studio: "Dead Man's Suit" and "People Help the People".
Critical response was generally positive, with Q giving the album 4 stars and Channel 4 awarding the album a full 10 out of 10 stars. However, publications such as NME and AllMusic were less than favourable; the latter declared Cherry Ghost "...yet another one of those indie rock bands..." and of the album noting "...Thirst for Romance hit number seven in its first week, showing that there was a reasonable market for this type of angst, but within six weeks it had vanished from the chart entirely."[2] James Dean Bradfield, lead singer/guitarist of Welsh indie rock group Manic Street Preachers, said that Thirst for Romance was his favourite album of 2007.[3]
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue # | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 9 July 2007 | Heavenly | CD | HVNLP59CD | |
| 30 July 2007 | Double LP (heavyweight vinyl) | HVNLP59 | |||
| Japan | 31 October 2007 | Toshiba-EMI | CD (two bonus tracks) | TOCP-66728 | |
| United Kingdom | 19 August 2022 | Heavenly | Double LP (15th anniversary reissue) | HVNLP59X |