Far from the Madding Crowd (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Far From the Madding Crowd


Type = Album
Artist = Wuthering Heights
Released = January 2004
Recorded = May-June 2003
Genre = Power/Progressive/Folk metal
Length = 61:04
Label = Locomotive Records
Producer = Tommy Hansen
Reviews =
Last album = "To Travel For Evermore"
(2002)
This album = "Far From the Madding Crowd"
(2004)
Next album = "The Shadow Cabinet"
(2006)

"Far From the Madding Crowd" is the third full-length album by Danish band Wuthering Heights. The title is taken from the novel by Thomas Hardy, "Far from the Madding Crowd", though the subject matter of the songs themselves has little to do with the content of the novel, having more in common with the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Track listing

#"Gather ye Wild" – 1:46
#"The Road Goes Ever On" – 7:49
#"Tree" – 5:03
#"Longing for the Woods Part I - The Wild Children" – 5:35
#"Highlands Winds" – 6:55
#"Longing for the Woods Part II - The Ring of Fire" – 6:14
#"The Bollard" – 3:29
#"Bad Hobbits Die Hard" – 3:22
#"Longing for the Woods Part III - Hernes Prophecy" – 8:38
#"Land of Olden Glory" – 6:21
#"Lament for Lorien" – 5:52
#"Memory within a Memory" (Instrumental) – 5:41 (Japanese bonus-track)
#"The Tapdancer/Gather Ye Wild (reprise)" – 4:08 (USA bonus-track)

Line-up

*Erik Ravn – guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
*Nils Patrik Johansson – vocals
*Rune S. Brink – keyboards
*Henrik Flyman – guitar
*Morten Gade Sørensen – drums, percussion

Guest musicians

*Jette Hansen – bagpipe
*Lisbeth Sagen – violin
*Ulrik Tofte Jespersen – flute
*Henrik Svanekær – banjo
*Tommy Hansen – backing vocals

Credits

*Music and lyrics by Erik Ravn, except:
**"The Bollard" (music and lyrics by Pilegaard/Jespersen/The McGalster Clan)
**"Lament For Lórien" (music by Rune S. Brink, Erik Ravn)
*Recorded at Jailhouse Studios, Horsens, May-June 2003; bagpipe, flutes, banjo, violin and Henrik Flyman's guitars were recorded at Digital Bitch, Copenhagen, Spring 2003
*Preproduction recorded at The Cave and Digital Bitch, Copenhagen, Summer 2002-Spring 2003
*Recorded by Tommy Hansen (at Jailhouse Studios) and Henrik Flyman (at Digital Bitch)
*Produced, mixed, and engineered by Tommy Hansen
*Mastered by Joe Gastwirt
*Cover art by David Wyatt
*Photos by Anders C. Nielsen
*Design, layout, and image manipulation by Michael Bennett