Captain were an alternative rock band from London, who formed in 2004, and were Influenced by groups such as The Smashing Pumpkins, The Beach Boys, My Bloody Valentine and The Cure, with their music also being compared by critics to Prefab Sprout, The Beautiful South and Deacon Blue. The band initially signed a recording contract with At Large Records and released their debut single 'Frontline' on the label in December 2005, before signing to EMI Records and achieving minor success in 2006 with their singles 'Broke' and 'Glorious', which reached numbers 34 and 30 on the UK Singles Chart respectively, as well as their Trevor Horn-produced debut album 'This Is Hazelville', which reached number 23 on the UK Albums Chart. On 5 May 2008 the band released 'Keep An Open Mind' as the lead single from their forthcoming second album 'Distraction', which was planned for release the following July, but before that happened the band were dropped by EMI (along with many other acts on its roster) as a part of a restructuring plan when the private equity firm Terrafirma purchased the company. Captain never split up, but chose to work on other projects to keep their enthusiasm for music, with singer/guitarist Rik Flynn and drummer Reuben Humphries forming a new band called More Diamonds, while bassist Alex Yeoman and keyboardist/singer Clare Szembek went on to form Misdirectors. Captain were a fine little indie band, and didn't deserve to be caught up in the corporate crap that Terrafirma forced onto EMI, and so as some sort of recompense here is their abandoned second album, boosted by four bonus tracks.
Track listing
01 Spoils
02 Loose Lips Sink Ships
03 Echoes Of Fashion
04 Safe Harbour
05 Keep An Open Mind
06 Animal
07 The Gamble
08 Lost The Bottle
09 The Last Page
10 Motto
11 No Greener Grass
12 Satellites
13 Patience
14 Bakersfield
15 Back In The Knife Drawer
