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VC Recordings trading as Hut Records was a British record label brand which was started in 1990 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin Records. Despite being wholly owned by a major label, it was classed as an independent label for the purposes of the UK Indie Chart due to the independent distribution, which was used by Virgin as a ...
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Record label. Alias of Hut Records (5) . Counterfeit / unofficial releases that pretend to be on Hut Recordings should use Hut Recordings (2) instead. Parent Label: VC Records Ltd. Sublabels: Meccico. Links: web.archive.org , Wikipedia.
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While at school, Richard Ashcroft had the desire to make music but was unable to play any instrument. When he and his school friends Peter Salisbury and Simon Jones attended higher education, they had the idea of starting a band. Sometime later, Ashcroft heard Nick McCabe playing in a practice room at Winstanley College. After Ashcroft's mother bou...
After shows supporting the Black Crowes, Verve set about to record their debut album. With a DAT machine and a mixing desk in tow, the band went to Wales, where they re-worked all the material they had, only keeping a fraction of it, such as "Slide Away" and "The Sun, the Sea". John Leckie approached Verve about producing them; he was known for his...
Title and themes
Best proposed the album's name be Storming Heaven, taken from the 1989 book of the same name by Jay Stevens, which discusses American culture handling the effects of LSD. Best added, "how [the drug] was a shortcut to Nirvana ... so I said [to Ashcroft] you should call it 'storming heaven' because that's what your music does. I thought this was a good euphemism for what their music did," before Ashcroft altered it to A Storm in Heaven. Discussing the name, Ashcroft said he preferred music that...
Music
As the band did not wish their debut to be a collection of hits, their first three singles were left off the track listing. Ashcroft retrospectively said it would have been a rip-off if it had their previous singles on it, preferring it to be "totally different, it's an actual event." He wanted to "make it special", an approach that Egan said "included textures created by additional instruments, including the flute, horns, accordion, and piano. Ashcroft would later assert that he was a believ...
Tracks 1–5
The album opens with "Star Sail", which Baker said starts with a "deceptive blast of feedback and then a series of wireless cries from Richard against a slow, shimmering wave of guitar." McCabe used the Eventide 300, an effects unit he claimed to be the best ever created, to give the song its texture. When Ashcroft's voice comes through, it is heard in the distance, where he sounds disoriented and on the edge of breaking down and, as Baker writes, "stumbling blindly through the cosmos." Ashcr...
Tracks 6–10
"Virtual World" is a folk song in the vein of Tim Buckley. Baker said it is one of the more out-there tracks on the album, as its simple rhythm structure "treads water slightly but its overlaid, bizarrely," with a flute solo in the vein of progressive rock. Yvette Lacey played a flute during the chorus section, while Simon Clarke of Kick Horns did the flute solo, the latter of which was recorded in two takes. Lager said Lacey's playing enhances the melancholic atmosphere of the track. Baker s...
Front cover
Boyd wanted to use the photograph that ultimately went to the "She's a Superstar" single for their album. Brian Cannon of the design company Microdot and photographer Michael Spencer Jones assured him that they could create something better. Ashcroft previously met Brian Cannon while at a party in Wigan during the former's college period. Ashcroft was interested in Cannon’s work at the time; two years later, when Verve got signed, the pair reconnected. Baker said Cannon was influenced by the...
Gatefold and back cover images
Cannon said he had been a fan of bands that used gatefold sleeves for their albums and wanted to employ that for Verve. The artwork collectively took circa three or four months to create and details the cycle of life. He explained that the front cover acted as "birth — the cave's like a vaginal opening in the mountain in the background." The gatefold photos show the "recklessness of youth" as a burning car is seen while members of the band sit nearby and play chess, taken in Billinge, Wigan....
In May 1993, Billboard reported that Verve's debut studio album was planned for release the following month. Record companies PolyGram and Deutsche Grammophon filed a suit against Verve on 7 May 1993 at the US District Court in Los Angeles, California, claiming trademark infringement. It was in regards to Verve Records; PolyGram issued releases thr...
Verve went on a UK tour to promote the release of "Blue", ending in June 1993. They then performed at Glastonbury Festival; their guitars had been stolen from their touring van, prompting them to borrow equipment from one of the other acts on the bill. Alongside this, McCabe's amplifier stopped working partway through one track and, in the end, had...
Egan wrote that A Storm in Heaven was met with mixed reviews upon its release in 1993, while Baker noted that some reviewers considered it too dark-sounding and focused on the theme of death. Defending this, Ashcroft said that they had "always been a dark band, dark in a way that can be quite frightening", adding that he thought "you're a fool if [...
Retrospective reviews focused on the music of A Storm in Heaven. Journalist Rob Sheffield in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide called A Storm in Heaven a "top-notch debut, full of long, druggy jams, shoegazing guitar excursions, and Mad Richard's shambolic, shamanic vocals." AllMusic reviewer Greg Prato wrote that when revisiting it nowadays, he sa...
A Storm in Heaven initially peaked at number 27 in the UK Albums Chart, and topped the UK Independent Albums chart. The album's 2016 reissue re-entered the main UK chart at number 84. It was certified silver and gold in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2013 and 2014, respectively. "Blue" reached number 69 on the UK Singles Chart...
Placebo è l'album d'esordio del gruppo musicale omonimo, pubblicato nel 1996 dalla Hut Records e dalla Virgin Records. Nel 2007 è stato incluso nella lista dei 25 migliori album Britpop secondo IGN.
In 1975, Werner Uehlinger started the Swiss label Hathut Records with the specific intent of showcasing McPhee's music. In the 1980s, McPhee met Pauline Oliveros, began studying her musical theories, and worked with her Deep Listening Band.
