Here Be Monsters

Infobox Album |
Name = Here Be Monsters
Type = studio
Artist = Ed Harcourt


Released = flagicon|UK June 25, 2001
flagicon|US March 25, 2002
Recorded = Ridge Farm Studios
Genre = British rock
Length = 52:08
Label = Heavenly Records
Astralwerks Records
Producer = Tim Holmes, Gil Norton, Ed Harcourt
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hy6fmpmj9ffo link]
Last album = "Maplewood EP"
(2000)
This album = "Here Be Monsters"
(2001)
Next album = "From Every Sphere"
(2003)

"Here Be Monsters" is the debut album by Ed Harcourt, released in 2001. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2001. Tim Holmes, one-half of British dance music duo Death In Vegas, co-produced the album.

Track listing

#"Something in My Eye" – 3:41
#"God Protect Your Soul" – 5:27
#"She Fell into My Arms" – 3:49
#"Those Crimson Tears" – 5:09
#"Hanging With the Wrong Crowd" – 3:41
#"Apple of My Eye" – 4:04
#"Beneath the Heart of Darkness" – 7:19
#"Wind Through the Trees" – 6:45
#"Birds Fly Backwards" – 3:30
#"Shanghai" – 3:49
#"Like Only Lovers Can" – 4:54

Personnel

* Ed Harcourt – vocals, piano, pump organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Wurlitzer, vibes, saxophone, harmonica, bass, beatbox, backing vocals, sampling, synthesizer, drums, percussion, string arrangement
* Nick Yeatman – drums, percussion, backing vocals, hand clapping, loops
* Hadrian Garrard – trumpet, trombone, percussion, drums, backing vocals, hand clapping, radio static
* Arnulf Lindner – double bass, electric bass, fretless bass, bowed bass, backing vocals
* Leo Abrahams – electric guitar, 12-string guitar, fretless guitar, baritone guitar, omnichord, glockenspiel, mandolin, backing vocals, string arrangement
* Tim Holmes – loops, sequencing, samples
* Dave Fridmann – backing vocals
* Martin Kelly – backing vocals
* Simon Harris – backing vocals
* Chris Scard – hand clapping
* Gil Norton – hand clapping
* Sophie Sirota – viola, string arrangement
* Max Garrard – French horn
* Howard Gott – string arrangement, violin
* Ruth Gottlieb – violin
* Sarah Willson – cello

ingles

In the UK, there were four singles released:
*"Something in My Eye" (June 11, 2001); CD, 7" vinyl
**B-sides: "T Bone Tombstone" / "Here Be Monsters"
*"She Fell Into My Arms" (September 10, 2001); CD, 7" vinyl
**B-sides: "I've Become Misguided" (new version) / "When Americans Come to London"
*"Apple of My Eye" (January 21, 2002); CD1, CD2, cassette
**B-sides: "Alligator Boy" / "Weary and Bleary Eyed" / "Last of the Troubadors" / "Little Silver Bullet" / "Apple of My Eye" (video)
*"Shanghai" (April 8, 2002) (This single was canceled and released as a promo single only.)