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Second Coming Standardisation and Enrichment

USE DEBUT AS BASIS

'Background' Edit - The recording of Second Coming experienced considerable setbacks. The band took approximately 9 months off after their legal dispute with Silvertone Records settled and they had signed with Geffen Records. After this period they began recording at Rockfield Studios (which they had previously used in part for The Stone Roses), but had their debut album producer John Leckie, and his replacement Paul Schroeder, leave in August 1993 and February 1994 respectively. Production duties then fell to engineer Simon Dawson. Development was said to have been stifled by the immense pressure created by the success of the first album, as well as relationship tensions and musical differences between the four band members. Squire, Brown and Wren became fathers during this period. Squire mentions: "The making of the second album finished the band off in a way; it was never the same after that".

The "Love Spreads" single was released a month prior to the studio album, with the further two singles, "Ten Storey Love Song" and "Begging You" released in 1995.

'Music and Lyrics' Addition - Second Coming is just over half an hour longer than debut, excluding the 86 blank tracks. Many of the lyrics within Second Coming are of a more colloquial and less tender nature than the debut, making occasional biblical references.

'Artwork' Addition - The album cover, created by Squire, features a dark, fabric-like collage of photographs, artwork, text and symbols. Most notable is a stone cherub, taken from a photograph of those found on the Newport Town Bridge, smoking a cigarette. The original photograph was later used for the "Love Spreads" single. The liner notes feature black and white photographs of the band members as children.

'Release and Promotion' Addition?

'Legacy' Addition