Syncopated City is fourth studio album and sixth album overall by liquid funk

Liquid funk

Liquid funk is a sub-genre of drum and bass. While it uses similar basslines and bar layouts to other styles, it contains fewer bar-oriented samples and more instrumental layers , harmonies, and ambience, producing a calmer atmosphere directed at both home listeners and nightclub...

 act London Elektricity

London Elektricity

London Elektricity is the DJ and stage name of musician Tony Colman who is best known as a recording artist of five albums, international DJ and formerly a live drum and bass act "London Elektricity Live".-History:...

. It was released on LP

LP album

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

 on September 1, 2008, on CD on the September 26, 2008, and via digital download a day later. Before release, several of the songs featured on the album were played on the Hospital Podcast

Hospital Records

Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music...

 presented by London Elektricity frontman Tony Colman.

The day after release, on September 27, 2008 London Elektricity performed at "World of Drum & Bass: The Big One" festival in Moscow, Russia, that was headlined by LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem is the stage name used by the drum and bass musician, producer and DJ Danny Williamson . He and his record labels Good Looking and Looking Good Records are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music....

 & MC Conrad

MC Conrad

MC Conrad is a British MC, well known for his collaboration with drum'n'bass DJ LTJ Bukem, as well as other artists on Bukem's Good Looking Records...

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The album features vocals by Tony Colman, with Liane Carroll

Liane Carroll

Liane Carroll is an English pianist/vocalist who grew up in a musical family. She has played professionally since she was 15....

 taking lead vocals on 5 of the tracks. Elsa Hedberg (aka Elsa Esmeralda) and Tomahawk also feature as vocalists on "Just One Second" and "Attack Ships On Fire" respectively.

LP release lacks "South Eastern Dream", "Attack Ships on Fire", "Outnumbered" and "Syncopated City Revisited" tracks, but has a unique song named "Maybe I Was Wrong" featuring vocalist Pat Fulgoni.

"Maybe I Was Wrong" was later released on Japanese special edition CD on Nov 30, 2008 as one of the bonus tracks.

A promotional video was shot for "All Hell Is Breaking Loose" single.

LP (NHS142LPX)

1. Bare Religion - 6:07
2. Just One Second - 5:39
3. Sat Nav - 6:46
4. This Dark Matter - 7:05
5. USKA – 6:05
6. All Hell Is Breaking Loose - 4:44
7. Point of No Return - 5:52
8. Maybe I Was Wrong - 6:39

CD (NHS142CD)

1. Bare Religion – 6:27
2. This Dark Matter - 7:03
3. Just One Second – 5:38
4. All Hell Is Breaking Loose – 4:44
5. South Eastern Dream – 6:45
6. Attack Ships on Fire – 6:02
7. The Point of No Return – 5:55
8. Outnumbered – 5:16
9. USKA – 5:42
10. Sat Nav – 6:47
11. Syncopated City Revisited – 6:26

Japanese Special Edition (NHS142JAPAN)

1. Bare Religion – 6:27
2. This Dark Matter - 7:03
3. Just One Second – 5:38
4. All Hell Is Breaking Loose – 4:44
5. South Eastern Dream – 6:45
6. Attack Ships on Fire – 6:02
7. The Point of No Return – 5:55
8. Outnumbered – 5:16
9. USKA – 5:42
10. Sat Nav – 6:47
11. Syncopated City Revisited – 6:26
12. Jikan Wo Tomete (featuring Maki Nomiya) - 05:38
13. Maybe I Was Wrong - 06:52
14. Just One Second (Radio Edit) - 03:27