''Land'' is the Comsat Angels' fourth album, released in September 1983 on

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. The album was reissued on CD in 2001 with five B-sides as bonus tracks for Jive's "Connoisseur Collection". The song "Independence Day," originally from their debut album, ''

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'', was rerecorded for ''Land''. "Will You Stay Tonight" and "Independence Day" received a reasonable amount of airplay and charted in the UK at No. 81 and No. 71, respectively. "Island Heart" was also released as a single. ''Land'' was the first of two albums for the Jive label and was viewed as a major departure from the Comsats' first three albums. Frontman Stephen Fellows looked back in a 2006 interview: "We made more commercial albums in the mid-'80s because the record company wanted us to do so. We were happy to find a new label after the commercially not-so-successful first albums." He regretted the result, but their options seemed limited because of the pop music world at the time. " Indie didn’t really exist, so we had no choice. But in retrospect we should have tuckto our early sound". Bass player Kevin Bacon put it this way: "The demos we did for ''Land'' were really good. It was a weird time for us – we felt deflated after being dropped after three albums by Polydor. Eighties pop values were rife; we didn’t naturally fit in, but were all into being popular (pop) and felt we could achieve it in a more damning way. We didn’t think ''Land'' was crap at the time, we just didn’t think it was us".the comsat angels, q&a
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Track listing 1983

Track listing 2001

''All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake'' #"Will You Stay Tonight?" – 4:21 #"Alicia (Can You Hear Me?)" – 3:54 #"A World Away" – 5:11 #"Independence Day" (re-recording) – 3:50 #"Nature Trails" – 4:55 #"Mister Memory" – 5:18 #"Island Heart" – 3:54 #"I Know That Feeling" – 5:20 #"As Above So Below" – 5:39 #"A World Away" (Dub) – 4:57 #"Shining Hour" – 4:29 #"Island Heart" (Dub) – 6:00 #"Scissors and the Stone" – 4:31 #"Intelligence"* – 4:32

Personnel

;The Comsat Angels * Stephen Fellows - vocals, guitar *Andy Peake -

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, vocals * Kevin Bacon - bass guitar *Mik Glaisher -

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References

{{Authority control 1983 albums The Comsat Angels albums Albums produced by Mike Howlett Jive Records albums