''Strange Brotherhood'' was released in 1998 and is the seventh

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band,

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and the first on their own independent

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, Attack Attack Records. The album was produced by Simon Dawson except for the tracks "Whites of Their Eyes" and "Queen of My Heart" which were produced by Mike Gregovich. The album featured the guest

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ist, Dave Blomberg, and also an

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. This album is also notable in being the last studio album to feature long-serving New Model Army member Robert Heaton.

Singles

"Wonderful Way to Go" was released as a single in March 1998 with two separate releases as "Part One of Two" and "Part Two of Two" and "Queen of My Heart" and "Brother" were released as a

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in May 1998.

Versions

The album was originally released as a 12-track CD in May 1998 along with a

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two CD version including sticker and

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booklet. The bonus CD containing "See You in Hell", "Sunset", and live versions of "Ballad of Bodmin Pill" and "The Hunt". A limited edition

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version was released in July 1998 as a

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LP with the original tracks on the first two records and adding the tracks "Brother", "Southwest", "Rainy Night 65", "Refugee", "Sunset", "Caslen" and "See You in Hell" on the third record.

Track listing

Standard CD version

#"Wonderful Way to Go" (

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, Robert Heaton) – 5:44 #"Whites of Their Eyes" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:41 #"Aimless Desire" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 5:05 #"Over the Wire" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 3:27 #"Queen of My Heart" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:15 #"Gigabyte Wars" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:15 #"Killing" (Sullivan, Heaton, Nelson, Dave Blomberg) – 5:43 #"No Pain" (Sullivan) – 4:55 #"Headlights" (Sullivan, Heaton, Nelson) – 5:35 #"Big Blue" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:21 #"Long Goodbye" (Sullivan) – 3:18 #"Lullaby" (Sullivan) – 5:40

Bonus CD

#"See You in Hell" (Sullivan, Heaton) #"Sunset" (Sullivan) #"Ballad of Bodmin Pill" (live) (Sullivan, Heaton) #"The Hunt" (live) (Sullivan, Heaton)

Third record from fan club edition

Side one

#"Brother" (Sullivan) #"Southwest" (Sullivan) #"Rainy Night 65" (Sullivan, Heaton)

Side two

#"Refugee" (Sullivan, Heaton) #"Sunset" (Sullivan, Heaton) #"Caslen" (Nelson) #"See You in Hell" (Sullivan, Heaton)

Personnel

–

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, keyboards,

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* Robert Heaton –

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, guitar,

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, harmonica, backing vocals *Nelson –

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, guitar,

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, backing vocals *Dave Blomberg – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals *Dean White – keyboards,

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*Rachel Auty (her name was mistyped on the cd release and said Hunter. It was corrected on the vinyl release), Tobias Unterberg, Samantha Rowe, Ed Wolstenholme, Becky Pugh –

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*Ed Collins, Simon Pugsley, Stuart Edge –

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Production

*Simon Dawson – producer ("Wonderful Way to Go", "Aimless Desire", "Over the Wire", "Gigabyte Wars", "Killing", "No Pain", "Headlights", "Big Blue", "Long Goodbye", "Lullaby"), mixed by ("No Pain", "Big Blue") *Mike Gregovich – producer ("White of Their Eyes", "Queen of My Heart"), mixed by ("Wonderful Way to Go", "Whites of Their Eyes", "Queen of My Heart", "Gigabyte Wars", "Killing", "Headlights", "Long Goodbye", "Lullaby") *Mark Dodson – mixed by ("Aimless Desire", "Over the Wire") *Dave Blomberg –

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Weekly charts

References

External links

Official NMA website
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