Let's Change the World with Music
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| Studio album by Prefab Sprout | ||||
| Released | 7 September 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 1993-2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop,house | |||
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Sony Music Kitchenware Records |
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| Producer | Paddy McAloon | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| BBC | (positive) |
| Independent | (positive) |
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Let's Change the World with Music is the eighth album English band Prefab Sprout. It was released in the UK on 7 September 2009. It was the band's first album of new material since 2001's The Gunman and Other Stories and marked a return to their former label Sony Music. The album reached #39 in the UK Albums Chart at the end of the week of its release. Although no singles were technically released, "Let There Be Music" was sent to radio stations and "Sweet Gospel Music" was due to be a one track digital release, only to highlight the album, but received no airplay and therefore was pulled.
All songs written by Paddy McAloon unless noted otherwise:
The album title was known among the band's fans as being one of the 'lost' albums recorded in demo form by the band's lead singer Paddy McAloon in 1993. The album was originally intended to be the successor to 1990's Jordan: The Comeback and was to have been produced by Thomas Dolby.
In an interview with Craig McLean of The Independent, McAloon observed that the prime mover behind the album was his long-term manager, Keith Armstrong. McAloon stated that "Keith was trying to help me, to make some money. When I finish something I listen to it intensively for a short period, then never look at it again. And I'm not really that interested. But when I heard this I thought, 'Oh boy, this is good.'"
During an interview on The Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 (3 September 2009) McAloon explained that in 1993 at a meeting with Sony he presented a tape of about fourteen songs as the follow-up to the lengthy Jordan: The Comeback. Apparently there were too many people in the room and the meeting did not go well. Although Sony's A&R man, Muff Winwood, wanted him to trim the record down to a more manageable length, for whatever reason there was a misunderstanding and McAloon understood that they wanted him to expand on just one or two of the ideas (rather than just trim 1 or 2 of the songs from the album). He then went away for a year and a half and developed one of the 3 minute songs into a 30 song piece of music. After a period he realised that was not what they wanted, but by this point it was too late.
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