The Verve-A Storm In Heaven (Vinyl Sealed Unplayed RARE

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A Storm in Heaven

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2009) A Storm in Heaven Studio album by Verve Released 21 June 1993 Recorded 1992-1993, Sawmills Studio,Cornwall Genre Dream pop, shoegazing, space rock, psychedelic rock Length 47:04 Label Vernon Yard, Hut, Virgin Producer John Leckie Verve chronology Verve EP
(1992) A Storm in Heaven
(1993) A Northern Soul
(1995) Singles from A Storm in Heaven

"Blue"
Released: 10 May 1993
"Slide Away"
Released: 20 September 1993

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A Storm in Heaven is the debut studio album by English rock band The Verve (at the time just called Verve), released in June 1993 on the Hut Recordings label. It charted at #27 in the UK.

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Like the band's prior EPs and singles, most of the songs on this album are bathed in heavy layers of delay (echo) and reverb, used on both the guitars and the vocals, in order to give a disorientingly psychedelic overall effect.

Nick McCabe admitted he found work with John Leckie difficult and was ultimately dissatisfied with the album's sound:

I just found it really difficult. I had something in my mind, he had something in his, and I generally ended up doing it somewhere in the middle. It got to the point to where he would come out and start fiddling with my amp. I'd wait for him to turn his back and then I'd put it back. - 1999 interview

"Star Sail" appeared on the soundtrack album for the 1993 movie Sliver.

The lyrics of "Butterfly" [e.g., "You could flap your wings a thousand miles away/ You could take the storm away, forever every day"] pertain directly to the so-called Butterfly effect. (The song "Catching The Butterfly," from the band's 1997 album Urban Hymns, is apparently a continuation of this theme.) McCabe has stated that it was recorded at 3 AM while playing along with aSteely Dan sample ([1]).

The album's closing song is built on a subdued piano motif played by guitarist Nick McCabe.

Like all of the band's releases, A Storm in Heaven features enigmatic artwork. The album's cover photo was shot inside Thor's Cave in Staffordshire, England. The vinyl LP version came in gatefold packaging.

After this album, the band's music moved in a less psychedelic, more structured direction, and their name was officially changed to "The Verve" for legal reasons, so as not to clash with the record label Verve Records.