In Swings the Tide
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In Swings the Tide is the third studio album by New Zealand Pop
recording artist Anika Moa
. It was released on 8 October 2007 by EMI Records
. The album reached number six on the New Zealand Albums Chart and was certified Platinum
for selling over 15,000 copies.
Moa produced the album herself. Mixing
of the album was achieved in two weeks, while mastering
took one day. "It's been the easiest album I've ever done and the most control I've had over everything", she later said.
y, country
, folky
pop
".
Nick Gaffney and bassist
Chip Matthews on the tour. Folk singer-songwriter Age Pryor
opened for her, and Anji Sami, sister of Madeleine Sami
, also opened at the Nelson show.
Patrick Stowe from The Nelson Mail
gave the gig a positive review, praising Moa's "brutal honesty on stage".
rated In Swings the Tide four stars, commending its "level of songcraft here that wasn't always apparent on her earlier work."
Nick Bollinger from New Zealand Listener
said that "[In Swings the] Tide strikes a balance between the industry-standard pop of Thinking Room...and the introspection of 2005’s Stolen Hill." Taranaki Daily News
Felicity Rookes gave the album a positive review, commenting that "The intimate nature of the folksy tunes show how Moa has grown lyrically". Vicki Anderson of The Press
lauded Moa's songwriting skills, noting the "honesty and rawness of expression and emotion" present on the album. She gave it a perfect score of five stars.
on 15 October 2007 at number eight. The next week it moved up two places to number six, where it peaked. On 9 December 2007 it was certified gold
for shipping 7,500 copies, and on 17 February 2008 it received a platinum certification for 15,000 shipments. The album exited the chart in June 2008, but later re-entered the chart thrice, and spent a total of thirty-nine weeks on the albums chart.
" was released as the first single from the album on 8 October, the same date as the album's release. The song reached number sixteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart, and spent eighteen weeks on the chart. Luke Sharpe directed the accompanying music video
.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
recording artist Anika Moa
Anika Moa
Anika Rose Moa is a New Zealand pop recording artist. In 2001 she signed to Atlantic Records in the United States and released her debut album, Thinking Room, the album reached the top of the New Zealand Singles Chart and was a commercial success.Moa was raised in Christchurch, New Zealand...
. It was released on 8 October 2007 by EMI Records
EMI Records
EMI Records is the flagship record label founded by the EMI company in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia label. The EMI label was launched worldwide...
. The album reached number six on the New Zealand Albums Chart and was certified Platinum
Platinum
Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal...
for selling over 15,000 copies.
Background
Songs on the album were inspired by the break-up of a relationship and Moa's father's deteriorating health.Moa produced the album herself. Mixing
Audio mixing (recorded music)
In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
of the album was achieved in two weeks, while mastering
Audio mastering
Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
took one day. "It's been the easiest album I've ever done and the most control I've had over everything", she later said.
Composition
Moa has described the album as "balladBallad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
y, country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
, folky
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
".
Tour
Moa toured New Zealand to promote In Swings the Tide. She was backed by drummerDrummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Nick Gaffney and bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
Chip Matthews on the tour. Folk singer-songwriter Age Pryor
Age Pryor
Age Pryor is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He records and performs solo, is a founding member of both the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra and The Woolshed Sessions, and is also a contributing artist to the group Fly My Pretties....
opened for her, and Anji Sami, sister of Madeleine Sami
Madeleine Sami
Madeleine Jane Sami is a New Zealand actress, comedian and musician.Madeleine was raised in the Onehunga suburb of Auckland, New Zealand; and attended Onehunga High School. She is of Irish and Fiji Indian heritage. Madeleine starred in the long running New Zealand soap Shortland Street from...
, also opened at the Nelson show.
| Date | City | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 6 December 2007 | Dunedin Dunedin Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until... |
The Backstage |
| 7 December 2007 | Christchurch Christchurch Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of... |
Al's Bar |
| 8 December 2007 | Nelson Nelson, New Zealand Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island.... |
School of Music |
| 9 December 2007 | Wellington Wellington Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range... |
San Francisco Bathhouse |
| 11 December 2007 | Whangarei Whangarei Whangarei, pronounced , is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. Although commonly classified as a city, it is officially part of the Whangarei District, administered by the Whangarei District Council a local body created in 1989 to administer both the... |
Salut |
| 12 December 2007 | Kerikeri Kerikeri Kerikeri, the largest town in the Northland Region of New Zealand, is a popular tourist destination about three hours drive north of Auckland, and 80 km north of Whangarei... |
The Centre |
| 13 December 2007 | Auckland Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world... |
Transmission Room |
Patrick Stowe from The Nelson Mail
The Nelson Mail
The Nelson Mail is a daily newspaper in New Zealand. Founded in 1866 and then known as The Nelson Evening Mail. It absorbed another local paper, The Colonist about 1906.The paper is currently owned by Fairfax New Zealand....
gave the gig a positive review, praising Moa's "brutal honesty on stage".
Critical reception
Russell Baillie of The New Zealand HeraldThe New Zealand Herald
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rated In Swings the Tide four stars, commending its "level of songcraft here that wasn't always apparent on her earlier work."
Nick Bollinger from New Zealand Listener
New Zealand Listener
The New Zealand Listener is a New Zealand magazine. First published in 1939 and edited by Oliver Duff and the Monte Holcroft it originally had a monopoly on the publication of of upcoming television and radio programmes. In the 1980s it lost its monopoly on the publication of upcoming television...
said that "[In Swings the] Tide strikes a balance between the industry-standard pop of Thinking Room...and the introspection of 2005’s Stolen Hill." Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki Daily News
The Taranaki Daily News is a daily morning newspaper published in New Plymouth, New Zealand.The paper was founded as the Taranaki News on May 14, 1857, by friends of former Taranaki Province Superintendent Charles Brown. Brown was the first proprietor of the newspaper and he appointed his political...
Felicity Rookes gave the album a positive review, commenting that "The intimate nature of the folksy tunes show how Moa has grown lyrically". Vicki Anderson of The Press
The Press
The Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is owned by Fairfax Media.- History :The Press was first published on 25 May 1861 from a small cottage in Montreal Street, making it the oldest surviving newspaper in the South Island of New Zealand. The first...
lauded Moa's songwriting skills, noting the "honesty and rawness of expression and emotion" present on the album. She gave it a perfect score of five stars.
Commercial reception
In Swings the Tide debuted on the New Zealand Albums ChartRecording Industry Association of New Zealand
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...
on 15 October 2007 at number eight. The next week it moved up two places to number six, where it peaked. On 9 December 2007 it was certified gold
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
for shipping 7,500 copies, and on 17 February 2008 it received a platinum certification for 15,000 shipments. The album exited the chart in June 2008, but later re-entered the chart thrice, and spent a total of thirty-nine weeks on the albums chart.
Singles
"Dreams in My HeadDreams in My Head
"Dreams In My Head" is the lead single from In Swings the Tide, New Zealand singer-songwriter Anika Moa's third studio album. It was released on 8 October 2007....
" was released as the first single from the album on 8 October, the same date as the album's release. The song reached number sixteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart, and spent eighteen weeks on the chart. Luke Sharpe directed the accompanying music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
.
Track listing
- "Wise Man Say" – 3:21
- "Dreams in My HeadDreams in My Head"Dreams In My Head" is the lead single from In Swings the Tide, New Zealand singer-songwriter Anika Moa's third studio album. It was released on 8 October 2007....
" – 3:33 - "Miss Universe" – 2:23
- "The Blind Woman" – 4:39
- "In Swings The Tide" – 3:20
- "My Old Man" – 4:07
- "Day In, Day Out" – 2:15
- "Hangin' Around" – 3:24
- "Standing In This Fire" – 4:29
- "Honey You'll Be Alright" – 2:34
- "You're The Light" – 3:45
- "Thinking About Tomorrow" – 3:55
The Band
- Anika MoaAnika MoaAnika Rose Moa is a New Zealand pop recording artist. In 2001 she signed to Atlantic Records in the United States and released her debut album, Thinking Room, the album reached the top of the New Zealand Singles Chart and was a commercial success.Moa was raised in Christchurch, New Zealand...
: Vocals, Guitar & Harmonies - Nick Gaffaney: Drums
- Chip Matthews: Bass
- Neil Watson: Electric Guitar
- Stephanie Brown: Piano, Keyboard, Clavichord Accordin, Hammond Organ Vibraphone, Glockenspiel
- Andy Lynch: Mandolin on Track 7, Electric Guitar on Track 12, Dobro on Track 6
- Brendon Morrow: Vibraphone on Track 1
- Brian SmithBrian Smith (musician)Brian Smith is a jazz saxophonist and flautist from New Zealand.Smith studied piano in his youth but was primarily an autodidact on reeds. He played locally in pop and jazz groups before moving to England in 1964, where he played with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated...
: Clarinet on Track 5, Bass Flute on Track 6 - Bruce LynchBruce LynchBruce Lynch, born 1948, New Zealand, is an electric and acoustic bassist, producer and arranger.Arriving in the UK in the mid-70s, he became a highly sought-after studio and session musician touring extensively with Cat Stevens, including the 1976 Earth Tour, as well as appearing on six albums...
: Lap Steel on Track 6 - Miranda Adams: Violin on Track 3
- Jeremy Toy: Electric Guitar on Track 8
Harmonies
- Anna CoddingtonAnna CoddingtonAnna Coddington is a New Zealand singer-songwriter.. She has released two albums: "The Lake" in 2008 and "Cat & Bird" in Feb 2011. Her previous band 'Duchess', for whom Coddington was songwriter, singer and guitarist, also released a 6 track EP in 2005....
on Tracks 2,3,4,7,10 & 11 - Tim Guy on Tracks 4, 7 & 10
- Madeleine SamiMadeleine SamiMadeleine Jane Sami is a New Zealand actress, comedian and musician.Madeleine was raised in the Onehunga suburb of Auckland, New Zealand; and attended Onehunga High School. She is of Irish and Fiji Indian heritage. Madeleine starred in the long running New Zealand soap Shortland Street from...
on Track 4 - Ned Ngatae on Track 4 & 10
- Kara Rickard on Track 10
String Players
- 1st Violins: Miranda Adams, Arthur Grabczewski, Pam Jiang, Diana Cochrane
- 2nd Violins: Mark Bennett, William Hanfling, Julia Broom
- Violas: Rob Ashworth, Christine Bowie, Greg McGarity
- Cellos: Claudia Price, Katherine Hebley