To All New Arrivals
Studio album by
Faithless
Released27 November 2006
Genre
Length55:09
Label
ProducerFaithless
Faithless chronology
Renaissance 3D
(2006)		 To All New Arrivals
(2006)		 The Dance
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Drowned in Sound6/10[2]
The Guardian[3]
musicOMH[4]
NME5/10[5]
The Observer[6]
Virgin Media[7]

To All New Arrivals is the 5th studio album by dance music act Faithless. The album was created after the positive response to the Faithless Greatest Hits tour, originally described as their "final tour". The album was released on 27 November 2006, a week after the single "Bombs". The title for the album was inspired by the recent birth of two babies to band members Rollo and Sister Bliss. The album cover features the 1880 oil painting, Nightfall on the Thames, by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

The album was supported by a tour of all of the United Kingdom's major arenas, which began in Nottingham on 17 March 2007. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 30 for the week ending 3 December 2006. Given that their previous studio album, No Roots, entered the charts at number 1, this position was seen as a disappointment.

Album information

Lead singer Maxi Jazz loved the title, partly due to his Buddhist faith and partly due to his parents being new arrivals to the UK in the 1950s.[8]

The tagline for the album are lyrics taken from the song "Music Matters":

For all those who stood up and were counted,
For all those for whom money was no motive,
For all those for whom music was a message,
I want to thank you.

The track "Spiders, Crocodiles & Kryptonite" features the vocals of Robert Smith of English rock band The Cure, as well as a sample and a section of arrangement from The Cure hit "Lullaby".

Unlike the original versions of Faithless' previous studio albums, initially this album was not released in the United States. A deluxe version later appeared on the US iTunes Store on 4 November 2007.

Track listing

  1. "Bombs" (featuring Harry Collier) – 4:58
  2. "Spiders, Crocodiles & Kryptonite" (featuring Robert Smith) – 5:40
  3. "Music Matters" (featuring Cass Fox) – 4:36
  4. "Nate's Tune" – 2:14
  5. "I Hope" – 5:27
  6. "Last This Day" (featuring Dido) – 5:09
  7. "To All New Arrivals" (featuring Harry Collier) – 5:02
  8. "Hope & Glory" (featuring One eskimO and John Reid) – 5:00
  9. "A Kind of Peace" (featuring Cat Power) – 4:14
  10. "The Man in You" (featuring LSK) – 5:06
  11. "Emergency" – 7:43

iTunes US deluxe edition bonus tracks

Includes all original tracks (above), plus the following:

  1. "A Kind of Peace" (Sister Bliss & Rollo Slow Radio Edit) – 3:12
  2. "A Kind of Peace" (Sister Bliss & Rollo Full Club Vocal) – 7:56
  3. "Music Matters" (Axwell Remix) – 8:31
  4. "Bombs" (Benny Benassi) – 7:41

This version also includes a digital booklet and the videos for "Bombs" and "Music Matters".

Japanese edition bonus tracks

  1. "Bombs" (Benny Benassi Mix) – 7:41
  2. "Bombs" (X Press 2's TNT Vocal Mix) – 7:08

Personnel

  • Maxi Jazz - vocals
  • Sister Bliss - keyboards, programming, sampling
  • Rollo Armstrong - production, programming, sampling
  • Dido - vocals, Track 6
  • John Reid - outro vocals, Track 8
  • LSK - vocals, Track 10

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] 73
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[10] 12
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[11] 27
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[12] 29
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13] 70
Irish Albums (IRMA)[14] 34
Scottish Albums (OCC)[15] 28
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[16] 11
UK Albums (OCC)[17] 30
UK Dance Albums (OCC)[18] 1

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Ireland (IRMA)[19] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[20] Gold 100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ "Album Review: Faithless - To All New Arrivals". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Caroline (24 November 2006). "CD: Faithless, To All New Arrivals". The Guardian. London.
  4. ↑ "MusicOMH.com review". Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  5. ↑ NME: 25 November 2006 Issue
  6. ↑ Mulholland, Garry (12 November 2006). "CD: Faithless, To All New Arrivals". Retrieved 3 November 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  7. ↑ "Virgin TV Edit | TV, Sport, Movies & More". Virgin Media. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  8. ↑ "Faithless Information". Columbia Records UK. 2006. Retrieved 3 November 2006.
  9. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Faithless – To All New Arrivals" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Faithless – To All New Arrivals" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  11. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Faithless – To All New Arrivals" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  12. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Faithless – To All New Arrivals" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Faithless – To All New Arrivals" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  14. ↑ "Irish-charts.com – Discography Faithless". Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  15. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  16. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Faithless – To All New Arrivals". Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  17. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  18. ↑ "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  19. ↑ "The Irish Charts - 2006 Certification Awards - Gold". Irish Recorded Music Association.
  20. ↑ "British album certifications – Faithless – To all new arrivals". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type To all new arrivals in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
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