''Forever'' is the second

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by English

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band Cranes. It was released on 26 April 1993 by

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Critical reception

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'' ranked ''Forever'' as the 24th best album of 1993. In a retrospective review for

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, 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''. He noted that ''Forever'' "went to extremes in both directions – the quieter moments were even more hushed and shadowed, the louder points all that much more whip-snap cruel."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Cranes * Matt Cope – guitar * Mark Francombe – guitar, keyboards * Alison Shaw – vocals, bass * Jim Shaw – drums, guitar, keyboards, bass Additional musicians * The Falseharmonics – strings on "Golden" * Audrey Riley – string

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s on "Golden" Production * Cranes –

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* Giles Hall – engineering * Marcus Lindsay – engineering * Andy Wilkinson – engineering Design *

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– photography * John Barnbrook – Cranes logo design * Albert Tupelo – design

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1993 albums Cranes (band) albums Dedicated Records albums