Even Closer

Infobox Album |
Name = Even Closer
Type = Album
Artist = Goapele


Released = September 10, 2002 (first pressing)
February 10, 2004 (second pressing)
Recorded = 1999–2001
Genre = Neo Soul
Trip hop
Length =
Label = Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings (first pressing)
230108
Skyblaze/Columbia/SME Records (second pressing)
WK 72795
Producer = AmpLive
Mike Tiger
Shaka Ramsay
Nate Greenberg
Jeff Bhasker
Soulive
Johnson
Eric Krasno
Reviews =
Last album = "Closer" (2001)
This album = "Even Closer"
(2002)
Next album = "Change it All"
(2003)

"Even Closer" was the second album and the first nationally distributed album by singer-songwriter Goapele Mohlabane, which was essentially an expanded version of her début, "Closer". Originally released through Hieroglyphics Imperium, it was picked up by Columbia/SME Records, which signed her to a recording contract through her family-owned label, Skyblaze Recordings, and picked up this album for international distribution. More tracks were added to the Columbia Records pressing, which replaced the earlier version. However, it was distributed through Relativity Entertainment Distribution instead of through Sony Music Distribution, denoted by the WK prefix instead of the customary CK prefix, by its UPC, and by the legal copy on the back cover. There were guest appearances by guitarist Errol Cooney, the band Soulive, and hip-hop emcees and fellow Hieroglyphics members Casual, Pep Love, and Zion I. The album garnered positive reviews in the US music press and paved the way for an album of all-new material.

Track Listing (230108)

#Closer
#Ease Your Mind
#Got It
#Romantic
#Too Much the Same
#Catch 22
#The Daze
#Thing's Don't Exist
#Childhood Drama
#Salvation
#Back to You
#Butterflykisses
#It Takes More
#Red, White, & Blues

Track Listing (WK 72795)

#Closer (3:49)
#Ease Your Mind (3:35)
#Got It (3:15)
#Romantic (5:37)
#Too Much the Same (3:56)
#Catch 22 (4:09)
#The Daze (3:07)
#Things Don't Exist (4:32)
#Childhood Drama (3:14)
#Salvation (3:43)
#Back to You (4:17)
#Butterflykisses (3:20)
#It Takes More (3:57)
#Red, White, & Blues (5:29)
#Childhood Drama (Remix) (3:24)
#Got It (Reprise) [hidden track] (0:41)