''Fatal Mistakes'' is the seventh studio album by the Scottish band

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, released on 28 May 2021. It is the band's first studio album since 2002's ''

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.'' It debuted at number five on the

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in the first week following its release.

Background

Del Amitri reformed in 2014 after a ten year hiatus. Initially the band thought that fans did not want unreleased material, choosing to play only previously released songs during the 2014 tour. Singer Justin Currie was hesitant to release an album of new songs saying "we thought that's probably not what anyone is going to want to listen to". By 2018, Currie and guitarist

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had created finished songs that sounded "very Del Amitri". The two reformed the band with the lineup featured on 2014's live release ''Into the Mirror: Del Amitri in Concert,'' with keyboardist Andy Alston, guitarist

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and drummer

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. ''Fatal Mistakes'' was recorded in March 2020 over a three-week period, with Del Amitri completing the sessions the day before the UK locked down due to the

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. Initially scheduled for release on 30 April 2021, the release date was moved to 28 May 2021 because of pandemic-related production delays.

Track listing

''Fatal Mistakes – Outtakes and B-Sides''

A five-track bonus CD titled ''Fatal Mistakes – Outtakes and B-Sides'' was initially available for a limited period as a companion piece to ''Fatal Mistakes'' on 28 May 2021. It was reissued with five additional tracks on 12 August 2022. "When Cooking Vinyl asked us to supply material for a bonus CD to go with the various ''Fatal Mistakes'' packages, we seized the chance to resurrect the B-Side. We knew we had at least ten tunes written for the album that didn't make it into the final sequence," Del Amitri said in a press release. Two of the tracks, "Lips of London" and "Gone in a Second," were recorded during the March 2020 album session, while the rest were written for the project and recorded remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown of winter 2021.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album liner notes. ;Del Amitri *Andy Alston * Justin Currie *

;Technical *

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– producer, mixing * The Groovey Tubes – producer (''Fatal Mistakes – Outtakes and B-Sides'', except "Gone in A Second" and "Lips of London") * Paul McGeechan – mastering *Gary Birchard – photography

Charts

References

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