''The Impossible Thrill'' is a studio album by

Alpha Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter ''aleph'' , whose name comes from the West Semitic word for ' ...

. It was released on Melankolic in 2001. It includes vocal contributions from Martin Barnard, Wendy Stubbs, and Helen White.

Critical reception

Metacritic Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created ...

, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64% based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Aidin Vaziri of ''

Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. The magazine was first known fo ...

'' included it on the "Top Albums of 2001" list.

Track listing

;Sample *"

Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, cha ...

" by

Nino Rota Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (; ; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed ...

on ''Almost There''

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. * Corin Dingley – production, arrangement, mixing * Andy Jenks – production, arrangement, photography * Helen White – vocals (1, 4, 5, 11) * Wendy Stubbs – vocals (2, 5, 8, 10) * Martin Barnard – vocals (3, 6, 9) *

Grant Marshall Grant W. Marshall (born June 9, 1973) is a Canadian former ice hockey right winger who currently works on behalf of the Devils Alumni Association. He played for the Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets and New Jersey Devils of the NHL. He last p ...

– vocals (8) * Sean Cook – harmonica * Pete Wilde – piano * Alex Lee – guitar * Bob Locke – bass guitar * Naked Voices – choir * Allison Orbaum – choir arrangement * Daniel Jones – orchestra arrangement * Paul Hicks – orchestra engineering * Chris Clark – orchestra engineering assistance * Gavin Wright – strings conducting * John Dent – mastering * Emma Poole – art supervision * Elissa Noad – layout * Stephen Gill – photography * Donald Milne – photography

Charts

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Impossible Thrill 2001 albums Alpha (band) albums Melankolic albums Virgin Records albums