No Promises (Carla Bruni album)
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| Released | 15 January 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
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| Language | English | |||
| Label | Naïve | |||
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No Promises is the second album by the Italian-French singer Carla Bruni. It was recorded during 2006 and released in January 2007. While Bruni's début album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, was sung in French; this album was sung in English.
All tracks on the album are adapted by Bruni from poems by 19th- and 20th-century authors.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Observer | [2] |
| PopMatters | (6/10)[3] |
AllMusic said: "Carla Bruni's sophomore effort takes a more difficult route and sees her setting canonical works by such poets as Yeats and Emily Dickinson to music, often calamitously" and concludes "It is a brave failure, but a failure nonetheless."[1]
Track listing
All music is composed by Carla Bruni.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Length |
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| 1. | "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" | William Butler Yeats | 3:40 |
| 2. | "Before the World Was Made" | Yeats | 3:49 |
| 3. | "Lady Weeping at the Crossroads" | Wystan Hugh Auden | 3:35 |
| 4. | "I Felt My Life with Both My Hands" | Emily Dickinson | 2:54 |
| 5. | "Promises Like Pie-Crust" | Christina Georgina Rossetti | 2:32 |
| 6. | "Autumn" | Walter de la Mare | 3:24 |
| 7. | "If You Were Coming in the Fall" | Dickinson | 3:30 |
| 8. | "I Went to Heaven" | Dickinson | 2:47 |
| 9. | "Afternoon" | Dorothy Parker | 2:06 |
| 10. | "Ballade at Thirty-Five" | Parker | 3:02 |
| 11. | "At Last the Secret Is Out" | Auden | 3:07 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Length |
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| 12. | "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" (alternate version) (featuring Lou Reed) | Yeats | 2:58 |
