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Ten Crowns
2025 studio album by Andy Bell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Background
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.[5]
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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.[6]
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."[7] 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."[8]
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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).
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes[1] and Tidal.[9]
- Andy Bell – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Dave Audé – production (all tracks), mixing (track 10)
- Stefan Tanner – mastering
- Samuel Wills – mixing (tracks 1, 3, 5)
- Loren Moore – mixing (tracks 2, 4, 6–9)
- Devonne Fowlkes – backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 10)
- Harmonie Hall – backing vocals (tracks 1, 10)
- Joshua Lutz – guitars (tracks 1, 2)
- Sarah Potenza – featured vocals (track 2)
- Vince Clarke – additional synthesizers, sounds, guitars (track 2)
- Debbie Harry – featured vocals (tracks 3, 14)
- Kiley Phillips – backing vocals (track 3)
- Luciana Caporaso – backing vocals (track 3)
- Billy Mohler – bass guitar (track 3)
- Jerry Fuentes – guitars (track 3)
- Dave Audé – backing vocals (track 5)
- Tomas – backing vocals (track 7)
- Sisely Treasure – backing vocals (track 9)
- Paul A. Taylor – art direction, design
- Louise Hendy – design
- Sean Black – photography
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