Beyond Elysian Fields is Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.-Career:...

's 2004 album, produced by Tony Visconti

Tony Visconti

Anthony Edward Visconti is an American record producer and sometimes a musician or singer.Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers; his lengthiest involvement with any artist is with David Bowie: intermittently from Bowie's 1969 album Space Oddity to 2003's Reality, Visconti...

 and released by Invisible Hands Music

Invisible Hands Music

Invisible Hands Music is an independent record label based in London's Camden Town neighbourhood. The label was founded by musician Charles Kennedy. The company name first appeared on cassettes sold at gigs by Kennedy's first band Night World in 1987. The first CD release was Fretwork Southeast, a...

 in 2004 in the UK, with a worldwide release in 2005.

Critical reception

Adam Morton of The Age

The Age

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complimented Cornwell's "clipped, dry delivery" on the songs "Under Her Spell" and "Beauty on the Beach", but added that "melodies wane and lyrics become laboured on later tracks" such as "24/7".
Helen Wright of MusicOMH

MusicOMH

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 described the album as "something like a cross between [Bob] Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 and Dire Straits

Dire Straits

Dire Straits were a British rock band active from 1977 to 1995, composed of Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers .Dire Straits' sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, blues, and came closest...

 at their best ... with a dash of The Travelling Wilburys for good measure." Wright also cautioned, "If you preferred the early Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

 you'll probably hate this album."
Graham Rockingham The Hamilton Spectator

The Hamilton Spectator

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wrote: "Beyond Elysian Fields doesn't contain the in-your-face attitude of Stranglers' songs like 'Peaches', 'Grip' or 'Hangin' Around' ... but it does contain that sardonic sense of humor and unmistakable voice. Cornwell's songwriting ventures into all sorts of unexpected territory."

Track listing

1. "Land Of A Thousand Kisses" - 4:55
2. "Cadiz" - 4:13
3. "Do Right Bayou" - 2:21
4. "Under Her Spell" - 3:13
5. "Beauty On The Beach" - 3:41
6. "The Story Of Harry Power" - 4:17
7. "24/7" - 3:47
8. "Mr.Big" - 2:53
9. "Picked Up By The Wind" - 3:10
10. "I Don`t Mind" - 3:01
11. "Henry Moore" - 6:01

Personnel

• Hugh Cornwell
  Hugh Cornwell
  Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.-Career:...
  
  - Vocals, Guitar
• Steve Lawrence - Bass, Organ, Piano
• Windsor McGilvray - Drums
• Tony Visconti - Recorder, Castanets
• Scott Bourgeois - Flute

Beyond Acoustic Fields

Beyond Acoustic Fields, is a limited edition CD, only available on tour (in ????), is performed by Cornwell with acoustic guitar and vocal only and is recorded by Tony Visconti at his New York studio Looking Glass, to give Tony an idea of the songs before producing the full album with the band.

Tracklisting: Cadiz, Beauty on the Beach, The Land of a Thousand Kisses, 24/7, Henry Moore, The Story of Harry Power, Picked up by the Wind, Do Right Bayou, Under Her Spell