Eclectric
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| Source | Rating |
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| The Celebrity Cafe |   [1] |
| YouSuckIRule | (favorable)[2] |
| Hybrid Magazine | (favorable)[3] |
| Arjan Writes | (favorable)[4] |
| Artist Direct | (favorable)[5] |
| PopMatters | [6] |
| TourDates.co.uk | (unfavorable)[7] |
| antiMusic.com | (mixed)[8] |
| Flake Records | (favorable)[9] |
| Bounce Magazine | (favorable)[10] |
| Music talks. | (7.3/10)[11] |
Eclectric is the first solo album by Svoy. It was originally released independently on December 13, 2005 on Svoy's Sixteenth Republic Records and later licensed, remastered, re-packaged and re-released May 1, 2007 by Rendezvous Entertainment/Universal Music Group to generally positive critical reviews. After Rendezvous' acquisition by Mack Avenue Records in August 2008,[12] the album became part of the Mack Avenue/Sony Music Entertainment catalogue. As an import, the record gained substantial popularity in Japan and on July 8, 2009, was released by Tokyo-based Thistime Records as a 2-CD set featuring two bonus tracks on the first CD and Svoy's Consequence EP 1.0 on the second. Japan edition also featured new booklet with revised extended artwork and a separate slip with biography and lyrics translated into Japanese. In 2012, the master license to both Rendezvous/Mack Avenue and Thistime Records expired with the sound recording rights to the album reverting to Svoy. After a brief confrontation with the labels to cease distributing the album, Svoy remastered and re-released Eclectric internationally in the fall of the same year.
Track listing
| 1. |
"Driving Away" | Svoy |
3:36 |
| 2. |
"The Other Side" | Svoy |
4:01 |
| 3. |
"I Don't Love" | Svoy |
3:27 |
| 4. |
"On My Own" | Svoy |
3:36 |
| 5. |
"Make You Mine" | Svoy |
3:45 |
| 6. |
"Cared More" | Svoy |
4:36 |
| 7. |
"One Night Stand" | Svoy |
4:11 |
| 8. |
"Looking For You" | Svoy |
4:06 |
| 9. |
"Stronger Than Wind" | Svoy |
4:08 |
| 10. |
"Shy" | Svoy |
7:31 |
| 11. |
"Eclectric Unwinder" | Svoy |
0:31 |
| 12. |
"To What It Used To Be" | Svoy |
4:21 |
| 13. |
"Sadness Dwells" | Svoy, Daichi Miyata |
2:33 |
| 14. |
"Feel" | Svoy |
5:12 |
Personnel
- Svoy – keyboards, vocals, producer, programming, vocal arrangement, sound engineering, mixing, mastering (track 13, 14; 2012 remastered version), artwork revision (Japan edition; 2012 version)
- Myles D'Marco – guitar (track 7)
- A-ux – co-production (track 8)
- Steve Fallone – mastering
- Daichi Miyata - co-production (track 13)
- Shoshannah White – photography
- Kevin Reagan – art direction, design, photography, collages
- Lauren Taylor – design, collages, photography
- Dave Koz – executive producer
- Frank Cody – executive producer
- Hyman Katz – executive producer
- Jeff Chiang – product manager
Release history
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