Daylight (The Selecter album)

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Daylight
Studio album by
Released6 October 2017 (2017-10-06)
Length39:44
LabelDMF Music
Producer
  • Neil Pyzer
  • Tim Bran
The Selecter chronology
Subculture
(2015)
Daylight
(2017)
Human Algebra
(2023)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Punknews.org[3]
Record Collector[4]

Daylight is the fifteenth studio album by English band the Selecter.[5] It was released on 6 October 2017 through DMF Music.[6]

Critical reception[edit]

SF Weekly wrote that the album "hears the group as energized as ever for an urgent and powerful record proving that the group is still open to creative evolution."[7] LA Weekly called the album "engagingly soulful."[8] Uncut wrote that "much of this is rather pedestrian ska with blandly topical lyrics."[9]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks composed by Pauline Black, Arthur Hendrickson and Neil Pyzer; except where noted

Daylight track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Frontline" 3:40
2."Remember Me"
  • Black
  • Hendrickson
  • Pyzer
  • Bruneau
4:32
3."Daylight" 3:46
4."The Big Badoof" 4:09
5."Paved with Cold" 4:22
6."Taking Back Control"
  • Black
  • Hendrickson
  • Pyzer
  • Beverley Skeete
3:17
7."Things Fall Apart" 4:09
8."Mayhem" 3:43
9."3 Reasons" 3:47
10."Pass the Power"
  • Black
  • Hendrickson
  • Pyzer
  • Beverley Skeete
4:19

Personnel[edit]

The Selecter

  • Pauline Black – vocals
  • Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson – vocals
  • Neil Pyzer – saxophone, guitar, keyboards, vocals, string arrangements
  • Will Crewdson – guitar
  • Luke Palmer – bass guitar
  • Lee Horsley – organ
  • Orlando La Rose – saxophone, flute, piccolo flute
  • Winston Marche – drums

with:

  • Tim Bran – piano (on tracks 2, 4, 5, 8, 10), keyboards on "Daylight", string arrangements
  • John Robertson – guitar on "Remember Me" and "Things Fall Apart"
  • Adrian Large – guitar on "Paved With Cold", "Things Fall Apart" and "Pass the Power"
  • Jools Holland – piano on "Daylight"
  • Graham Cuttill – percussion
  • James Lawrence – trombone (on tracks 1. 3, 5–7, 10)
  • Audrey Riley, Chris Tombling – strings on "Daylight", "Mayhem" and "Pass the Power"
  • Beverley Skeete – backing vocals
  • Marizia Pyzer-Skeete – backing vocals on "Taking Back Control"

Chart[edit]

Chart performance for Daylight
Chart (2017) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC)[10] 66

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  2. ^ Deming, Mark. "Daylight - The Selecter". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  3. ^ "The Selecter - Daylight". www.punknews.org.
  4. ^ "Daylight - Record Collector Magazine".
  5. ^ "The Selecter | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ "On my radar: Pauline Black's cultural highlights". the Guardian. 17 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Three Must-See Acts This Week". SF Weekly. 11 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Music Pick: The Selecter". LA Weekly. 18 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Daylight". Uncut: 36. November 2017.
  10. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 April 2019.

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