Arias & Symphonies

Infobox Album |
Name = Arias & Symphonies
Type = Album
Artist = Spoons


Released = 1982
Recorded = Sounds Interchange, Toronto 1982
Genre = New Wave, synthpop
Length = 44:11
Label = Ready / LR027
Producer = John Punter
Reviews =
*Allmusic (3/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qn5uak5kkm3n link]
Last album = "Stick Figure Neighbourhood"
(1981)
This album = "Arias & Symphonies"
(1982)
Next album = "Talkback"
(1983)

"Arias & Symphonies" was the second album by the Burlington band Spoons. It contained the highly successful single "Nova Heart" and "Arias & Symphonies". The album is the band's only studio album available on CD, aside from Vertigo Tango (1988).

Track listing

# "Trade Winds" (Deppe) – 2:15
# "Smiling in Winter" (Deppe/Horne) – 4:06
# "One in Ten Words" (Deppe/Preuss) – 4:10
# "No Electrons" (Deppe) – 5:12
# "No More Growing Up" (Deppe/Preuss/Horne) – 3:26
# "Arias & Symphonies" (Deppe) – 4:48
# "Nova Heart" (Deppe) – 5:47
# "South American Vacation" (Deppe/Preuss/Horne) – 4:12
# "A Girl in Two Pieces" (Deppe/Horne) – 4:28
# "Walk the Plank" (Deppe) – 4:27
# "Blow Away" (Deppe) – 5:58

Singles

* "Nova Heart" (SRB020/SR201)
* "Arias & Symphonies" (SR271/SR271E)
* "Smiling In Winter" (SR272)

Personnel

* Gordon Deppe: vocals, guitar
* Sandy Horne: bass, vocals
* Rob Preuss: Jupiter IV, SH-2000
* Derrick Ross: drums, percussion

* Mike Jones: Engineer

Misc

* Studios: Sounds Interchange Toronto & Air Studios London
* Cover: photograph - divische Reitschule, Wien (courtesy of the Austrian National Tourist Office)
* Concept: by M.P. Krawczynski, P.L. Noble and Gordon Deppe