Chicane - Easy To Assemble (2003)

On 27 March 2000, Nocholas Bracegirdle, a.k.a. Chicane, released his second studio album 'Behind The Sun', which was a commercial success, reaching the Top 10 in the UK Albums Chart, and would go on to be certified Gold by BPI, selling over 100,000 copies. This would be the final studio released through his record label Xtravaganza, as over the next two years Bracegirdle became engaged in a lawsuit with Xtravaganza, which resulted in his departure from the label and his signing with WEA for the release of a third album, 'Easy To Assemble'. As a result of the lawsuit, Chicane lost the rights to the sound recordings from the 'Behind The Sun' album, including its singles. Originally scheduled for 2003, the 'Easy To Assemble' album's release was preceded by the lead single 'Love On The Run', followed by a promotional single, 'Locking Down'. However, after promotional copies of the album were distributed, the release was cancelled. In 2002, Bracegirdle had signed to WEA and had finished his third album, but as review copies were being sent out, the record label WEA was bought out by Edgar Bronfman Jr of Warner Music Group, resulting in the A&R manager and music director who signed Bracegirdle leaving the company, and its release was put on hold while he negotiated an exit from his contract. As soon as he extracted himself from his contract, he prepared to release the record independently, but the entire album had been leaked online from the promo copies, and it was pirated to such an extent that it was felt that it was not worth releasing it officially, which resulted in the commercial release of the album being cancelled. Eventually, under the new management of John Cavanagh, April 2006 saw the release of a new single on Globe Records, 'Stoned In Love', featuring singer Tom Jones on vocals. His next album, 'Somersault', was released on 23 July 2007, with two of the tracks from the unreleased album, 'Arizona' and 'Spirit', being re-recorded for inclusion, but here is the full 'Easy To Assemble' album, with the original recordings of those two tracks. 

 
Track listing

01 Love On The Run (feat. Peter Cunnah) 

02 Daylight (feat. Tracy Ackerman) 
03 East Side Story (feat. Bryan Adams) 
04 In Praise Of The Sun (feat. Vanessa St James) 
05 Locking Down (feat. Melissa Baten) 
06 Spirit (feat. Jewel) 
07 Arizona (Part 2) 
08 Some Might Say (feat. Joel Edwards) 
09 Kilometre 
10 Something Wrong (feat. Nadia Jordan)  
11 Empires