Fires (Ronan Keating album)
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| Released | 3 September 2012 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 43:18 (Standard) 51:34 (Deluxe) | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Gregg Alexander, Electric, Odd Jensen, Stephen Lipson, Cass Lowe, Paul Meehan, Rick Nowels, Brian Rawling, Dean Reid | |||
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Fires is the ninth studio album by Irish singer Ronan Keating. The album was released on 3 September 2012, with a special deluxe, signed edition to be available from the Universal Music official store.[1] It is his fifth album to contain original material and his first in six years following Bring You Home.
To promote the record, Keating embarked on a short promotional tour, which began on 3 August 2012, with the Summarfestivalur in The Faroe Islands.[2] Other dates included the Þjóðhátíð festival in Iceland on 5 August, and the Festas do Mar in Portugal on 17 August[3] as well as appearances in Germany and Australia.[4] Keating also undertook two weeks of radio promotion around radio stations in the last week of August. A arena tour of the UK and Ireland commenced in January 2013.
Singles
- "Fires", the album's title track, premiered on 21 July 2012 on BBC Radio 2. The music video for the song premiered on 1 August 2012, via YouTube. The single as released as a digital download on 2 September 2012. The song was only available as a digital download and sold 10,000 copies.[5]
- "Wasted Light", is the second track on the album and premiered on 3 December 2012. The music video part live, part animated.
Critical reception
On 22 August 2012 the album was voted album of the week by BBC Radio 2.[6]
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| Source | Rating |
| BBC Music | positive[7] |
| Daily Express |   [8] |
Fires received positive reviews from BBC Music, critic Mike Driver declared that "a few bloopers aside, this is probably Keating’s best album since his eponymous debut."[9]
The Daily Express gave the album a rating of 4 out of 5 and commented that "it's on songs such as Love You And Leave You that you get a whiff of a truly original artist." However, it also said that Keating had "put together something that, while slick and seamless, doesn’t really say anything new and mostly sounds a little sub-something else, largely Scissor Sisters."[8]
