Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God

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Name = Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God
Type = Album
Artist = Transit Kings

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Released = August 21 2006
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Genre = Downtempo
Length = 65:07
Label = Malicious Damage
Producer = Alex Paterson, Jimmy Cauty, Guy Pratt, Dom Beken
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"Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God" is the debut album by the Transit Kings. It featured guest appearances from The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and comedian Simon Day.

"Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God" The "sample-tastic" house album featured guest appearances from Johnny Marr and Simon Day.cite news|work=The Independent |last=Gill |first=Andy |page=18 |date=2005-06-17 |title=Transit Kings - Token (Malicious Damage)] "The Sun" described the album as "quality" and "out of this world" and compared it to a mixture of DJ Shadow and Röyksopp;cite news|title=Transit Kings |work=The Sun |date=2006-08-18 |page=56] however, "The Times" called it "Orb-lite" and proclaimed it to be "Deep Forest-style sludge".cite news|last = Greenwood |first=Phoebe |date=2006-08-19 |page=30 |work=The Times |title=Transit Kings]

Though Jimmy Cauty left the Transit Kings before the release of "Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God", he received a credit as composer on seven of the album's tracks. [cite web|work=Discogs |title=Transit Kings entry |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Transit+Kings |accessdate=2006-10-18]

Track listing

#"The West End Of A Duck Going East" (6:12)
#"Stop Over (Dance With Me)" (0:10)
#"Concourse" (7:16)
#*Vocals - Juliet Russell
#"Boom (Bombay)" (5:42)
#*Vocals - Missy MC
#"Oh Shit" (4:02)
#*Strings" - Chi3
#"Baby Don't" (5:17)
#*Trumpet, Flugel - Quentin Collins
#"Japanese Cars (Album Mix)" (4:56)
#"Free Free" (8:08)
#*Strings - Chi3
#*Vocals - Jonathon Kydd, Juliet Russell, William Butler Yeats
#"Blooze Tracks" (5:19)
#"America Is Unavailable" (Album Mix) (5:21)
#*Guitar - Johnny Marr
#"Wagon Wheels" (6:06)
#*Trumpet, Flugel - Quentin Collins
#"The Last Lighthouse Keeper" (6:38)
#*Vocals - Simon DayExtra Tracks on the Japanese release:
#"Butterflies" (4:31)
#"America is Unavailable" [sss ding dong mix] (4:41)

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