Great Escape is the second solo album by Irish

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 singer Tara Blaise

Tara Blaise

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. It was released on 2 May 2008 (See 2008 in music

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) by Spokes Records.

Track listing

1. "Make You" - 4:02
2. "Breathe" - 4:12
3. "Great Escape" - 3:44
4. "Taller on the Phone" - 2:34
5. "Let's Talk" - 3:05
6. "Secret Garden Party" - 4:21
7. "Fall at the Start" - 3:30
8. "Rage About It" - 3:38
9. "Rosalie" - 4:10
10. "New Red Shoes" - 4:19

"Fall at the Start"

"Fall at the Start", released on 25 July 2007, was the first single from the album. It was released less than a year after "Twenty One Years

Twenty One Years

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", which was the final single from her 2005 debut album Dancing on Tables Barefoot

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, and nearly one year before the rest of the Great Escape album.

"Breathe"

On 21 March 2008 the second single, "Breathe", was released. The UK CD single was released on 8 December 2008.

A studio video by Stylorouge

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 for "Breathe" appeared on Tara Blaise's website in October 2008. Also on 7 October Terry Wogan

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 played the song on his morning show, Wake Up to Wogan

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, and has since aired it a number of times.

"Make You"

The third single was the album's opening track, entitled "Make You", and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.

The song entered RTÉ

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's Radio 1

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Playlist on 5 May. A studio video for "Make You" appeared on Tara Blaise's website in October 2008.