Ten Crowns
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| Released | 2 May 2025 | |||
| Studio | Maze (Atlanta)[1] | |||
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| Length | 36:20 | |||
| Label | Crown | |||
| Producer | Dave Audé | |||
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| The Crown Jewels | ||||
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| Released | 12 December 2025 | |||
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| Label | Crown | |||
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Ten Crowns is the third studio album by English singer Andy Bell.[2] It was released on 2 May 2025, by Crown Recordings, in CD, LP, cassette and digital formats.[4] On 12 December 2025, a limited-edition deluxe CD box set titled The Crown Jewels was released, comprising an expanded edition of the album, a disc of remixes by various artists, a disc of extended versions mixed by Dave Audé, and a disc of live recordings; the release was limited to 4,000 copies.[5][6]
Noted as a dance album with elements of Eurodisco and gospel music,[2][3] Ten Crowns is the first album by Bell in fifteen years, since Non-Stop.[2] Featuring ten songs with a total runtime of approximately thirty-six minutes, it was produced by Grammy-winning musician Dave Audé and recorded in a studio in Nashville.[2][3] The lead single of the album, "Don't Cha Know", was released on 18 February 2025.[7]
Reception
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100[8] |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| MusicOMH | [3] |
| Record Collector | [4] |
| Spill | [9] |
Ten Crowns received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on four reviews.[8]
Marcy Donelson of AllMusic remarked, "Often earnest, anguished, and euphoric, Ten Crowns delivers the catharsis while keeping it real."[2] MusicOMH gave the album a rating of three stars, stating "Yet while this never quite touches the highs that Erasure can produce, there's enough moments on Ten Crowns to convince that Bell and Aude make a good partnership for when Vince Clarke wants a rest."[3] Spill assigned the album a rating of four and a half out of five and described it as "a well produced, beautiful album" and "a brilliant accomplishment for Bell and Audé."[9] David Pollock of Record Collector rated the album three stars and stated, "Yet there are interesting things going on between the lyrical lines here, as love, sex, religious salvation and sin clash on "Dance for Mercy", "Dawn of Heaven's Gate" and the pop-orchestral "Thank You"."[4] The Quietus wrote, "Bell has made an album that gently expands the palette of what he's known for, but also allows him to shine as himself rather than as one half of pop's greatest odd couple."[10]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Andrew Ivan Bell, except "Heart's a Liar" (written with Deborah Harry); all music is composed by Bell and David P. Audé, except "Heart's a Liar" (composed with Harry, Luciana Caporaso, and Nick Clow) and "Put Your Empathy on Ice" (composed with Sisely Treasure).
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Breaking Thru the Interstellar" | 3:26 |
| 2. | "Lies So Deep" (featuring Sarah Potenza) | 3:36 |
| 3. | "Heart's a Liar" (featuring Debbie Harry) | 3:30 |
| 4. | "For Today" | 3:11 |
| 5. | "Dance for Mercy" | 3:59 |
| 6. | "Don't Cha Know" | 3:35 |
| 7. | "Dawn of Heaven's Gate" | 3:56 |
| 8. | "Godspell" | 3:22 |
| 9. | "Put Your Empathy on Ice" | 4:26 |
| 10. | "Thank You" | 3:18 |
| Total length: | 36:23 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 11. | "Breaking Thru the Interstellar" (extended) | 4:44 |
| 12. | "Don't Cha Know" (extended) | 4:43 |
| 13. | "Dance for Mercy" (extended) | 5:00 |
| 14. | "Heart's a Liar" (extended; featuring Debbie Harry) | 4:59 |
| Total length: | 55:51 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 11. | "Ten Crowns" (Dave Audé continuous DJ mix) | 37:20 |
| Total length: | 73:43 | |
