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Wings of Joy is the debut studio album by English rock band Cranes. The album was released on 16 September 1991 by Dedicated Records. It followed the band's mini-album Self-Non-Self, released two years earlier.
Cranes are a four-member UK-based band founded by Alison Shaw and Jim Shaw. (In 1989 Cranes released a “mini album”, “ Self-Non-Self ” on 12" 45RPM vinyl featuring 3 tracks...
With the addition of Mark Francombe and Matt Cope (both guitar), Cranes attained a front cover with Melody Maker magazine and released a series of critically acclaimed EPs in 1990 and 1991 that preceded their debut full-length album, Wings of Joy, which reached number 52 on the UK Albums Chart.
Jul 22, 2012 · CRANES - forever (1993) - 16 - Wings of Joy (bonus track)
CRANES - wings of joy (1991) - 01 - Watersong
Add droning guitars + female frontwoman and presto! Cranes are clumped as a “dream-pop shoegazer” band of the early 90’s. But dream-pop they’re not.
Melody Maker ranked Forever as the 24th best album of 1993. [8] In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett stated that Forever saw Cranes building on the mixture of "elegant restraint" and "brusque power" that characterised their 1991 debut album Wings of Joy. [6]