''Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied'' is the fourth album by the Scottish rock band

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. The album was announced on 1 June 2015 with the first track, "Me and the Devil" (which was given away for free from the band's website), and released on 21 August 2015. The album was written and recorded in Los Angeles during November 2014 with

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, who also produced the band's first album ''

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'' and

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's solo album '' Psycho Jukebox''.

Recording

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''. During the tour for that album, the band debuted the new songs "All the Livelong Day", which later became "Impostors (Little By Little)" and "Too Much Wine". They went to record the new album during January 2014, and after various attempts they gave up and decided to bring back Tony Hoffer. During that session, "Me and the Devil" was the third song to make it onto the record. Every other song was discarded for the time being. "Rosanna" uses the same melody as a track released for free on

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's website called "Mellotron Boogie No 3". Jon Fratelli said at the time that it would probably find its place somewhere one day. The title of the album comes from the bonus track "Medusa In Chains".

Track listing

Personnel

Band *

– guitar and vocals, piano * Barry Fratelli – bass guitar and backing vocals (tracks 1–13, 19–21) * Mince Fratelli – drums and backing vocals (tracks 1–13, 19–21) Additional musicians *

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– piano and keyboards on "I Know Your Kind" and "I'm Gonna Be Your Elvis" Production (tracks 1–13) *

– producer *

– mixer * Cameron Lister – engineer * Dave Cooley – mastering * Recorded at The Hobby Shop Recording Studios, Los Angeles Production (tracks 14–21) * Stuart McCredie – producer and mixing * Dean Honer – mastering (tracks 14–18) * Callum Malcolm – mastering (tracks 19–21)

Charts

References

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