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2013 studio album past Elton John

The Diving Board
Eltonjohn thedivingboardcover.jpg
Studio album by

Elton John
Released 13 September 2013
Recorded January 2012, January 2013 at The Village, Los Angeles, California
Genre Stone, soft rock, vocal jazz
Length 57:45
Label Capitol (U.s.a./Canada), Mercury
Producer T-Bone Burnett
Elton John chronology
Good Forenoon to the Night
(2012) 		The Diving Board
(2013) 		Wonderful Crazy Dark
(2016)
Singles from The Diving Board
  1. "Home Again"
    Released: 24 June 2013
  2. "Mexican Vacation (Kids in the Candlelight)"
    Released: 28 August 2013[1]
  3. "Can't Stay Alone Tonight"
    Released: March 2014

The Diving Lath is the twenty-ninth studio album past English musician Elton John.[2] It is the 2d of his studio releases since 1979's Victim of Love without whatever of his regular ring members.[3] [4] The album was released in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2013, and debuted at No. 3 on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland album nautical chart, his highest-charting studio album in his home country since 2001'due south Songs from the West Coast, and at No. iv on the Billboard 200. Information technology is also his highest-charting solo album in the Us since Blue Moves in 1976.

The album'due south premiere single, "Home Again", was released on 24 June 2013, the aforementioned day the album became bachelor for pre-lodge. On 28 Baronial 2013, a video for "Mexican Holiday (Kids in the Candlelight)" was released on YouTube.

Production [edit]

The album was written past Elton John and Bernie Taupin and produced in Los Angeles by The Spousal relationship producer T-Bone Burnett. Burnett suggested that John return to the piano, bass and drums format of his very early on years and the result, John says, is "the most exciting solo record I've done in a long, long time."[5] The Diving Board was initially written in 2 days.[6]

The album's release date was pushed dorsum: though the tape was originally planned for release in the fall of 2012, it was revealed on Taupin's website that it would instead be released in February 2013 for promotional reasons.[7] Later, it was pushed dorsum over again.

Information technology was revealed on 28 September 2012 in Rolling Rock magazine that John was dissatisfied with the balance on the anthology and that he had started to write more new songs for the album. He believed that many of the songs had a theme and that he wanted to write more than songs after sitting on the project for so long.[viii]

During a concert at the Perth Arena in Perth, Australia on 10 November 2012, John revealed that The Diving Board 's release would be pushed dorsum further, to May 2013.[9] The delay in release was considering John was to tape more than material for the album with Burnett in January 2013.[ten]

On 8 January 2013 it was revealed past Taupin's website that the title of the album had been changed from The Diving Board to Voyeur.[11] [12]

An article on Billboard published on 23 February 2013 revealed that the release date had once over again been pushed back, this time until September 2013; the title of the album was back to The Diving Board again. The commodity also revealed the revised track list, which includes four new songs mixed in with the original textile. A song originally stated for release on the album, titled "fifth Avenue", had been dropped. John called the revised album "The almost pianoforte-oriented anthology of my career" and said "It's my almost adult album".[13] In total the anthology's release had been pushed back iv times.

The album'south premiere single "Home Again" was released on 24 June 2013, the same day the album became available for pre-order.[14]

On 28 Baronial 2013, a video for "Mexican Vacation (Kids in the Candlelight)" was released on YouTube, being the album'due south second unmarried.[ane]

Reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 71/100[15]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [16]
The Guardian [17]
The Independent [eighteen]
Los Angeles Times [nineteen]
Rolling Stone [xx]

Critical [edit]

The Diving Board received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, which indicates "by and large favorable reviews", based on 24 reviews.

Many critics praise the album every bit a "great return to form" and one of John'southward all-time albums of recent years and of his career.[21] Alan Light of Rolling Rock gave the anthology a four star review commending its spare instrumentation and focus, maxim that John has "regained his sense of musical possibility and taken a brave, svelte jump".[22] Robert Hilburn, who famously reviewed John's American debut at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, praised The Diving Lath'due south "finely crafted and securely moving" songs that celebrate the past in a "fresh and revealing" way. Hilburn goes on to say that if these songs had been played at the Troubadour in 1970 John would all the same have been "showered with applause and acclaim".[23] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic was less enthusiastic. In a mixed review, he stated that the album is an "exceptional idea in theory; in practice information technology is ever so slightly formless."[sixteen]

Commercial [edit]

In the United Kingdom, The Diving Board reached No. 3 on the album chart on its showtime calendar week of release backside indie stone band Chill Monkeys and Swedish dance music producer Avicii,[24] selling 22,000 copies in its first week. The album was certified Silver past the British Phonographic Industry on 10 January 2014, signifying sales of lx,000 copies in the UK. In the United States, the album debuted at No. iv on the Billboard 200 albums chart on its first week, with 47,000 copies sold. Information technology is Elton John's 18th acme 10 album on the chart.[25] As of December 2015, the album has sold 150,000 copies in the US.[26] It also debuted at No. 7 on the Canadian Albums chart.[27]

The unmarried "Can't Stay Alone Tonight" became Elton John's 70th song to appear on the Adult Contemporary nautical chart in the US, further extending his tape for the most appearances on that chart that showtime began with "Your Song" in 1970.[28]

Accolades [edit]

Rolling Stone placed the album at No. 25 on its listing of the 50 Best Albums of 2013.[29]

Track listing [edit]

All lyrics are written by Bernie Taupin; all music is equanimous by Elton John.

No. Title Length
i. "Oceans Away" 3:58
2. "Oscar Wilde Gets Out" 4:35
3. "A Town Called Jubilee" 4:30
4. "The Ballad of Blind Tom" 4:12
five. "Dream #1" (Instrumental interlude) 0:40
vi. "My Quicksand" 4:47
7. "Can't Stay Alone Tonight" 4:48
8. "Voyeur" iv:xvi
9. "Domicile Again" 5:01
ten. "Take This Dirty Water" 4:25
11. "Dream #2" (Instrumental Interlude) 0:43
12. "The New Fever Waltz" 4:38
13. "Mexican Holiday (Kids in the Candlelight)" iii:34
xiv. "Dream #three" (Instrumental Interlude) i:37
fifteen. "The Diving Lath" 5:59
Total length: 57:45
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No. Title Length
16. "Candlelit Bedroom" iv:fourteen
17. "Home Again" (Live from Capitol Studios) 5:xix
18. "Mexican Vacation (Kids in the Candlelight)" (Alive from Capitol Studios) four:28
xix. "The New Fever Waltz" (Live from Capitol Studios) 4:42
Total length: 76:28
Super deluxe edition bonus DVD: Live from Capitol Recording Studios
No. Title Length
one. "T-Os Burnett introduction"
two. "The New Fever Waltz"
3. "Mexican Vacation (Kids in the Candlelight)"
four. "Home Again"
five. "Behind The Diving Board with Elton John"
6. "Closing credits"
Target.com United states of america and Nippon limited edition
No. Title Length
1. "Oceans Abroad" 3:57
2. "Oscar Wilde Gets Out" 4:35
3. "A Town Called Jubilee" 4:29
iv. "The Carol of Blind Tom" 4:12
5. "Dream #i" (Instrumental Interlude) 0:39
6. "My Quicksand" 4:46
seven. "Tin't Stay Alone Tonight" four:48
8. "Voyeur" 4:sixteen
9. "Home Over again" 5:01
10. "Take This Dirty H2o" iv:24
11. "Dream #2" (Instrumental Interlude) 0:43
12. "The New Fever Waltz" 4:38
13. "Mexican Holiday (Kids in the Candlelight)" 3:33
14. "Dream #3" (Instrumental Interlude) ane:36
xv. "The Diving Board" v:55
16. "Candlelit Bedroom" 4:13
17. "Gauguin Gone Hollywood" 4:18
xviii. "5th Avenue" 4:22
19. "Dwelling house Again" (Live from Capitol Studios) 5:19
20. "Mexican Vacation (Kids in the Candlelight)" (Live from Capitol Studios) 4:27
21. "The New Fever Waltz" (Live from Capitol Studios) 4:42
Total length: 84:54

Charts [edit]

Release history [edit]

Editions [edit]

  • Standard edition: 15-track album[44]
  • Deluxe edition: xix-track album[45]
  • Super deluxe edition: 19-rails anthology with DVD Live from Capitol Recording Studios [not available as MP3][46]
  • Double LP [47]
  • Amazon.com Usa sectional edition: Deluxe album with a reproduction of 1970 Troubadour Concert Poster[48]
  • Walmart.com U.s.a. exclusive edition: Palatial album with a bonus DVD of Live at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, AR, June 2013 For Walmart Shareholders
  • Target.com USA exclusive edition: 2CD version with 3 session tracks. Two unavailable on any other format[48]
  • BestBuy.com The states exclusive edition: Deluxe anthology with a bonus DVD of the making of The Meg Dollar Pianoforte Testify
  • Japanese exclusive edition: SHM 2CD version with three session tracks. Ii unavailable on whatever other format[48]

Personnel [edit]

  • Elton John – acoustic piano, lead vocals (i-4, 6-ten, 12, xiii, 15)
  • Keefus Ciancia – keyboards (2, iii, 4, 6-ten, 12)
  • Larry Goldings – Hammond B3 organ (xv)
  • Doyle Bramhall II – guitars (3, x)
  • Raphael Saadiq – bass (2, 3, 4, half-dozen, vii, 8, ten, 12-15)
  • David Plitch – bass (ix)
  • Jay Bellerose – drums (2, iii, 4, 6-ten, 12-xv)
  • Jack Ashford – tambourine (3, 4, 7, eight, 10, 13)
  • George Bohanon – baritone horn (9), trombone (12, xv), euphonium (12, xv)
  • Bruce Fowler – trombone (ix)
  • Ira Nepus – trombone (12, 15)
  • Chuck Findley – flugelhorn (9)
  • Darrell Leonard – flugelhorn (9, 12, 15), horn arrangements (9, 12, fifteen, trumpet (12)
  • William Roper – tuba (9, 12, 15)
  • Stjepan Hauser – cello (2, 4, 12)
  • Luka Šulić – cello (2, four, 12)
  • Bill Maxwell – BGV arrangements (3, 4, 7, 10, 13)
  • Pecker Cantos – backing vocals (3, 4, 7, x, xiii)
  • Alvin Chea – backing vocals (3, 4, 7, thirteen)
  • Carmel Echols – backing vocals (3, 10, 13)
  • Judith Hill – backing vocals (iii, 10, 13)
  • Perry Morgan – bankroll vocals (iii, 4, 7, xiii)
  • Louis Toll – backing vocals (3, iv, 7, thirteen)
  • Rose Rock – backing vocals (ten)

Production [edit]

  • Producer – T-Bone Burnett
  • Recorded and Mixed by Jason Wormer
  • Second Engineers – Jeff Gartenbaum, Chris Owens and Vanessa Parr.
  • Mix Assistants – Zachary Dawes and Chris Owens
  • Mixed at The Village Recorder and Olympic Studios (Los Angeles, CA).
  • Mastered by Gavin Lurssen at Lurssen Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
  • Equipment Technician – Zachary Dawes
  • Pianoforte Technician – Carl Lieberman
  • Art Direction – Mat Maitland
  • Photography – Tim Hairdresser
  • Creative Director – Tony Rex

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External links [edit]

  • The Diving Board at Discogs (listing of releases)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Board

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