Play (Squeeze album)
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| Released | July 1991 | |||
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| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 52:25 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Tony Berg | |||
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Play is a 1991 album by the British new wave group Squeeze. It is the band's ninth album, and their only released by Reprise Records. It is the first LP in the Squeeze discography to feature only four official members instead of five (Steve Nieve took on many of the keyboard duties that would have gone to Jools Holland in the past). Tony Berg produced the album. In the liner notes to the 1996 Squeeze compilation Excess Moderation, Glenn Tilbrook stated that he considers Play the beginning of Squeeze's "renaissance period." The album spent one week at number 41 in the UK Albums Chart in September 1991.[1]
The liner notes to the album are, appropriately, in the form of a play that incorporates the lyrics of the songs in a script that also references the plays Our Town by Thornton Wilder and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
Critical reception
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| NME | 7/10[3] |
Play received some positive reception from critics. Stewart Mason of AllMusic proclaimed the record to be "probably Squeeze's best post-reunion album", naming the tracks "The Truth" and "Walk a Straight Line" as "particular highlights".[2]
Track listing
All songs written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.
- "Satisfied" – 5:10
- "Crying in My Sleep" – 5:03
- "Letting Go" – 5:01
- "The Day I Get Home" – 4:50
- "The Truth" – 4:12
- "House of Love" – 3:23
- "Cupid's Toy" – 4:31
- "Gone to the Dogs" – 3:54
- "Walk a Straight Line" – 3:50
- "Sunday Street" – 4:16
- "Wicked and Cruel" – 4:14
- "There Is a Voice" – 4:01
