Life in Mono (album)

Life in Mono is the third studio album by English pop singer Emma Bunton. The album was originally set for a November 2006 release in the UK, however it was later pushed back to 4 December 2006. Much like her previous album, Free Me, the album experiments with elements of 1960s pop music. For this particular album the musical arrangement was more directed towards 1960s French pop music, with some elements of British 1960s pop and Motown.

This article is about the Emma Bunton album. For the song with the same name, see Life in Mono.

Life in Mono
Studio album by
Emma Bunton
Released4 December 2006
GenreMotown[1][2]
LabelUniversal Music
Producer
  • Simon Franglen
  • Gary Clark
  • Eric Pressly
Emma Bunton chronology
Free Me
(2004)		 Life in Mono
(2006)		 My Happy Place
(2019)
Singles from Life in Mono
  1. "Downtown"
    Released: 13 November 2006
  2. "All I Need to Know"
    Released: 12 February 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Digital Spy[4]
MSNPositive[5]
musicOMH[6]
The Guardian[7]
Yahoo! Music UK[8]

Background

The album was inspired by 1960s sounds, like motown, bossa nova and pop.[1][2][9][10] Bunton had been working on her third release since winter 2004. The album's title track is a cover version of the hit "Life in Mono" by 1990s trip hop band Mono, best known through its usage in the 1998 film Great Expectations. The track "Take Me to Another Town" contains a sample from Herb Alpert's 1965 "Green Peppers". Songs recorded during this period that did not appear on the final album include "Crazy", "Rhapsody", and "Secrets".

Due to Bunton's pregnancy all forms of promotion were cancelled after a few months. Rumors of a third single surfaced through websites after Bunton stated she was thinking of releasing a third single, however this never came. The album tracks "I Wasn't Looking (When I Found Love)", "Perfect Strangers" and "Take Me to Another Town" were rumoured as choices for the third single.

Singles

Chart performance

Although it sold almost 13,000 copies in its first week, the album was Bunton's first not to reach the UK top 10. It debuted on the UK Albums Chart at No. 65 on 10 December 2006 and fell to No. 75 in its second week before dropping out of the chart the following week.

Track listing

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Life in Mono.

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."All I Need to Know"
  • Emma Bunton
  • Jamie Hartman
Simon Franglen4:18
2."Life in Mono"
  • John Barry
  • Martin Virgo
Franglen3:48
3."Mischievous"
Franglen3:41
4."Perfect Strangers"
  • Emma Bunton
  • Gary Clark
  • Pam Sheyne
Franglen3:31
5."He Loves Me Not"
  • Emma Bunton
  • Yak Bondy
Franglen3:28
6."I Wasn't Looking (When I Found Love)"
  • Emma Bunton
  • Pascal Gabriel
  • Hannah Robinson
Franglen3:31
7."Take Me to Another Town"
  • Gary Clark
  • Keely Hawkes
  • Eric Pressly
  • Clark
  • Pressly
4:08
8."Undressing You"
  • Tim Kellett
  • Kate Elsworth
Franglen3:21
9."I'm Not Crying Over Yesterdays"
  • Emma Bunton
  • Blair Mackichan
  • Justin Gray
Franglen3:23
10."All That You'll Be"
  • Emma Bunton
  • Peter Gordeno
  • Chris Porter
Franglen4:00
11."Downtown"Tony HatchFranglen3:24
Total length:41:21
Deluxe edition[11]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."Something Tells Me (Something's Going to Happen)"
  • Roger Cook
  • Roger Greenaway
Yak Bondy3:41
13."Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"
  • Osvaldo Farrés
  • Joe Davis
Franglen2:30
14."Por Favor"
  • Noel Sherman
  • Joe Sherman
Yak Bondy2:35
Total length:52:21

B-side
Title Featured on Producer(s) Length
"Midnight and Martinis" "All I Need to Know" single Lee Dagger, Marc JB 4:14

Charts
Chart (2006) Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[12] 69
UK Albums (OCC)[13] 65

References
  1. "Emma Bunton, Life in Mono". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  2. "Emma Bunton, Life in Mono". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  3. Mawer, Sharon. "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. Zendle, Miriam (4 December 2006). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (Digitalspy Review)". Digitalspy. Archived from the original on 17 January 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (MSN Review)". MSN. 1 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. Murphy, John (4 December 2006). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (musicOMH Review)". musicOMH. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. Macpherson, Alex (1 December 2006). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (The Guardian Review)". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. Gill, Jaime (3 January 2007). "Life in Mono – Emma Bunton (LAUNCH Yahoo!ardian Review)". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 13 January 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  9. "Emma Bunton's 'Life in Mono' Turns 10". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  10. "'Baby Please Don't Stop': The Breezy Return of Emma Bunton". Muumuse. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  11. "Life In Mono – Deluxe edition". Discogs. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  12. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  13. "Emma Bunton | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
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