''Zephyr'' is the sixth studio album by English

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. Released on 7 December 2009 as an

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(EP) internationally.

Background

The group had originally planned on recording a

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, with one album consisting of more ambient and mellow songs and the other traditional dance music tracks. However, the group decided on releasing ''

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'' on its own, with ''Zephyr'' as its follow-up. Felix Buxton told ''

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'': " swe were very keen on kind of doing a double-album. And then it’s just one of those things: you feel ou’re inyour

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phase. It's very Spinal Tap to do a double-album, and acts ometimestake themselves too seriously, so we were at that point

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we want to take ourselves seriously; and also we also always enjoy doing the soundscape stuff." ''Zephyr'' was released on 7 December 2009 by record label XL. Initially, the album was only released as a digital download, but a physical release followed in March 2010. The track "Hip Hip Hooray" was created for the Tate Modern as part of a series of tracks commissioned to be played alongside paintings. The track was inspired by the painting by Karel Appel, and includes cello, piano and organ by Jack Nunn. "Walking in the Clouds" features the voice of Joe Benjamin, a 70-year-old

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n man that walks around Brixton with "a

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." Buxton befriended him when he used to live there, then he invited Benjamin to the studio to record "Benjilude", an interlude from their 2003 album ''

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''.

Reception

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called the album an "altogether more reflective affair

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that allows Buxton and Ratcliffe to showcase their unique interpretation of a

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album", though criticising the album's short length.

Track listing

Charts

References

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