The Impossible Thrill

The Impossible Thrill is a studio album by Alpha. It was released on Melankolic in 2001. It includes vocal contributions from Martin Barnard, Wendy Stubbs, and Helen White.

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64% based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Aidin Vaziri of Rolling Stone included it on the "Top Albums of 2001" list.

Track listing

 * Sample
 * "Blues" by Nino Rota on Almost There

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.


 * Corin Dingley – production, arrangement, mixing
 * Andy Jenks – production, arrangement, photography
 * Helen White – vocals (1, 4, 5, 11)
 * Wendy Stubbs – vocals (2, 5, 8, 10)
 * Martin Barnard – vocals (3, 6, 9)
 * Grant Marshall – vocals (8)
 * Sean Cook – harmonica
 * Pete Wilde – piano
 * Alex Lee – guitar
 * Bob Locke – bass guitar
 * Naked Voices – choir
 * Allison Orbaum – choir arrangement
 * Daniel Jones – orchestra arrangement
 * Paul Hicks – orchestra engineering
 * Chris Clark – orchestra engineering assistance
 * Gavin Wright – strings conducting
 * John Dent – mastering
 * Emma Poole – art supervision
 * Elissa Noad – layout
 * Stephen Gill – photography
 * Donald Milne – photography