Albion (Ginger Wildheart album)

Albion is the fifth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Ginger Wildheart, frontman of rock band The Wildhearts.^[1] Albion was first released via the PledgeMusic platform as a 15-track LP. It came following the success of Ginger's 2012 album 555%.^[2]

Albion
Studio album by Ginger Wildheart
Released	December 23, 2013
Venue	Pen Y Lan studios, Meifod
Genre	Rock
Label	Cargo / Round Records
Producer	Kevin Vanbergen
Ginger Wildheart chronology
555% (2012) Albion (2013) Year of the Fanclub (2015)
Alternative cover
Cover used for the commercial release of the album

A commercial ten-track version was later released via Cargo Records^[3] and Round Records.^[4] The album, which was originally going to be titled Practical Musician, was recorded in 2013, and a blog of the album sessions was published online.^[5]

Critical reception

Classic Rock described Albion as "spinetingling" and gave it four out of five stars.^[6] Drowned in Sound gave the album 7 out of 10 stars,^[7] calling it "another step on Ginger’s loveably tumultuous, often volatile, refreshingly bittersweet and often transcendental musical journey."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ginger, except where noted.

Pledge edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Drive"	4:52
2.	"Cambria"	4:25
3.	"The Road to Applecross"	3:46
4.	"The Order of the Dog" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)	6:23
5.	"Chill Motherfucker, Chill"	4:18
6.	"Burn This City Down" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)	4:27
7.	"Body Parts"	2:29
8.	"The Beat Goes On (Caledonia)"	4:16
9.	"After All You Said About Cowboys"	3:46
10.	"Grow a Pair"	4:22
11.	"I Need You"	5:17
12.	"Capital Anxiety"	1:58
13.	"Into This"	4:07
14.	"Creepers" (Ginger, Ian Hardwick)	6:35
15.	"Albion" (Ginger, Jon Poole, Kevin Vanbergen, Victoria Liedtke)	10:26
Total length:		1:11:29

Commercial version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Drive"	4:52
2.	"Cambria"	4:25
3.	"Grow a Pair"	4:22
4.	"Burn This City Down" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)	4:27
5.	"The Order of the Dog" (Ginger, Chris Catalyst)	6:23
6.	"Body Parts"	2:29
7.	"The Beat Goes On (Caledonia)"	4:16
8.	"After All You Said About Cowboys"	3:46
9.	"Creepers" (Ginger, Ian Hardwick)	6:35
10.	"Albion" (Ginger, Jon Poole, Kevin Vanbergen, Victoria Liedtke)	10:26
Total length:		52:02

Personnel

• Ginger Wildheart – vocals, guitars
• Chris Catalyst – vocals, guitars, percussion, bass, harmonium
• Denzel – drums
• Rich Jones – guitars, vocals
• Victoria Liedtke – vocals
• Random Jon Poole – bass, guitar, vocals, keyboards
• Bryan Scary – piano, harmonium, vocals and string arrangements