Almost Happy

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Almost Happy
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Studio album by K's Choice
Released 26 October 2000
2002 (USA)
Genre Indie rock, folk rock
Length 47:47
Label Double T, Epic
Producer Marshall Bird & Steve Bush
K's Choice chronology
Cocoon Crash
(1998)Cocoon Crash1998
Almost Happy
(2000)
Echo Mountain
(2010)Echo Mountain2010
The cover of the 2002 release
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

Almost Happy is the fourth studio album by Belgian rock band K's Choice.

Music

Almost Happy was recorded at Real World Studio's, Box, Wiltshire (UK) and published in 2000. Singles were "Almost Happy", "Busy" and "Another Year". The lyrics of this album are more autobiographical than of the previous album (Cocoon Crash). The music is, when compared to earlier work, more melancholy and intimate. The American (2002) version included an additional live CD and was published with another cover, featuring a drawing by band member Gert Bettens, who had also drawn the album covers for the two previous albums.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Sarah and Gert Bettens

CD 1
No. Title Length
1. "Intro" (a Dutch children's song from Gert and Sarah's younger years) 0:21
2. "Another Year"   3:30
3. "Almost Happy"   3:45
4. "My Head"   3:43
5. "Live for Real"   3:50
6. "Somewhere"   3:03
7. "Home"   2:51
8. "Tired"   3:40
9. "Always Everywhere"   4:10
10. "Shadowman"   6:26
11. "Favorite Adventure"   2:47
12. "Busy"   3:39
13. "All" (including hidden track "Already There", an a cappella song) 6:02
CD 2 (live)
No. Title Length
1. "Hide"   4:20
2. "Cocoon Crash"   2:48
3. "Breakfast"   3:00
4. "Winter"   3:10
5. "If You're Not Scared"   5:09
6. "I Smoke a Lot"   2:55
7. "Not an Addict"   4:38
8. "My Heart"   3:28
9. "Mr. Freeze"   3:48
10. "Elegia"   4:08
11. "Everything for Free"   3:47
12. "Believe"   3:30
13. "Butterflies Instead"   3:41
14. "Laughing as I Pray"   1:29
15. "God in My Bed"   3:03

Personnel

Musicians:

Guest musicians:

  • Marshall Bird - keyboards

Mixed by Tchad Blake

Cover picture by Lieve Blanquaert

Charts performance

Country Peak position
[2]
BEL 3 (Flanders)
19 (Wallonia)
FRA 22
GER 81[3]
NED 7
SUI 36

References

  1. Allmusic review
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