Ferment (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Ferment
Type = Album
Artist = Catherine Wheel


Released = June 91992
Recorded = Monnow Valley Studios, Rockfield Wales
Genre = Alternative rock
Shoegazing
Length = 57:10
Label = Fontana
Producer = Tim Friese-Greene
John Lee
Reviews =
*Allmusic: Rating|4.5|5 ( [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9r5s8q9tbtb4~T10 link] )|
Last album = —
This album = "Ferment"
(1992)
Next album = "Chrome"
(1993)

"Ferment" is the first full-length album by the U.K. band Catherine Wheel, released in 1992 (see 1992 in music). Four songs ("Shallow", "I Want to Touch You", "She's My Friend", and "Salt") had previously appeared on independently released 12" EPs, and were re-recorded for inclusion on the album. The lead single, "Black Metallic", reached the top ten (peaking at number nine) of the "Billboard" Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Track listing

# "Texture" – 4:19
# "I Want to Touch You" – 4:40
# "Black Metallic" – 7:18
# "Indigo Is Blue" – 5:31
# "She's My Friend" – 4:16
# "Shallow" – 3:28
# "Ferment" – 5:10
# "Flower to Hide" – 4:43
# "Tumbledown" – 4:08
# "Bill and Ben" – 4:09
# "Salt" – 5:26
# "Balloon" – 3:56 (bonus track on US version of the CD)

Limited numbers of the UK version came with a three 3 track live EP (CWLVE12 - 3 track 12 inch EP with the vinyl version - tracks 1 and 2 on side A, track 3 on side B; CWLCD 1 - 3 track CD with the CD version), recorded at Bath Moles Club on 6th November 1991
# "Shallow"
# "I Want To Touch You"
# "Salt"

Credits

;Musicians:
*Rob Dickinson – guitar, vocals
*Brian Futter – guitar, vocals
*Dave Hawes – bass
*Neil Sims – percussion;Production:
*Tim Friese-Greene – producer
*John Lee – producer, engineer
*Tim Palmer – mixing
*Alastair Thain – photography