Bring Me Your Love (album)

Bring Me Your Love is the second album by City and Colour, released on February 12, 2008 through Dine Alone Records. According to Billboard, the album debuted at #11 of the Top Heatseekers chart in March 2008.[8]

Bring Me Your Love
Studio album by City and Colour
Released	February 12, 2008 December 2, 2008 (special limited edition)
Recorded	Catherine North Studios Hamilton, Ontario
Genre	Folk, acoustic, alternative country
Length	48:19 1:50:47 (special limited edition)
Label	Dine Alone, Vagrant, Shock
Producer	Dan Achen, Dallas Green
City and Colour chronology
Live (2007) Bring Me Your Love (2008) Live Session EP (iTunes Exclusive) (2008)
Alternative cover
Special Limited Edition cover
Singles from Bring Me Your Love
"Waiting..." Released: January 1, 2008[1] "Sleeping Sickness" Released: June 6, 2008[2] "The Girl" Released: December 3, 2008

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk.net	(83%) [3]
Allmusic	[4]
Kerrang
PunkTV.ca	[5]
TheStar.com	[6]
Unglued Reviews	(Positive) [7]

The songs on this album are more folk-oriented with occasional harmonica, bass, drums, banjo and mandolin as opposed to the previous releases which only consisted of acoustic guitar and piano.

On February 8, the complete album was made available for listening on City and Colour's official MySpace profile.

The music video for the first single, "Waiting...", was released on January 24, 2008 and was listed for 9 weeks on the Canadian Hot 100.[9]

In October, 2008, Dine Alone Records announced a special 2-disc limited edition of Bring Me Your Love to be released on December 2, 2008. Only 6000 copies were made available.[10] In Canada, when the record label put up the album on pre-sale on November 20, 2008, so many fans tried to pre-order it that they crashed the store's website.

Gordon Downie, of The Tragically Hip makes an appearance on the album, lending his vocals to the third verse on the second single, "Sleeping Sickness" which was listed for 9 weeks on the Canadian Hot 100.[11] The video for "Sleeping Sickness", directed by Montreal-based director Vincent Morisset, was released on June 27, 2008, with an interactive version being available on the group's official website.[2][12][13]

The album is named after a short story by Charles Bukowski. It is also a line sung in the closing track, "As Much as I Ever Could".[14]

Bring Me Your Love was released on vinyl in Canada in 2011.[15]

Background

As well as the standard edition, a 2-disc limited edition of Bring Me Your Love was released on December 2, 2008. This edition was limited to 5000 copies for North America and to 1000 copies for Australia. It also included a new cover artwork, the original CD, a second disc with 14 demo versions, 2 unreleased songs from the BMYL studio sessions and a handwritten booklet with behind-the-scenes photographs from Vanessa Heins.[10] A bundle including the new version of Bring Me Your Love and a special t-shirt, limited to 100 copies, was sold in Canada. Within a few hours, they were sold out.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dallas Green.

Standard edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Forgive Me"	2:08
2.	"Confessions"	3:46
3.	"The Death of Me"	3:10
4.	"Body in a Box"	4:12
5.	"Sleeping Sickness" (featuring Gordon Downie of The Tragically Hip)	4:08
6.	"What Makes a Man?"	3:26
7.	"Waiting..."	4:54
8.	"Constant Knot"	4:03
9.	"Against the Grain"	3:46
10.	"The Girl"	6:00
11.	"Sensible Heart"	3:21
12.	"As Much as I Ever Could"	5:25

iTunes bonus track

No.	Title	Length
13.	"I Don't Need to Know" (rough mix) (pre-order only)	2:59

Special limited edition disc 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Forgive Me"	2:08
2.	"Confessions"	3:46
3.	"The Death of Me"	3:10
4.	"Body in a Box"	4:12
5.	"Sleeping Sickness" (featuring Gordon Downie)	4:08
6.	"What Makes a Man?"	3:26
7.	"Waiting..."	4:54
8.	"Constant Knot"	4:03
9.	"Against the Grain"	3:46
10.	"The Girl"	6:00
11.	"Sensible Heart"	3:21
12.	"As Much as I Ever Could"	5:25
13.	"Faithless" (previously unreleased)	2:34
14.	"I Don't Need to Know" (previously unreleased)	3:00
Total length:		50:52

Special limited edition disc 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Forgive Me" (Demo version)	2:21
2.	"Confessions" (Demo version)	4:35
3.	"The Death of Me" (Demo version)	3:31
4.	"Body in a Box" (Demo version)	4:39
5.	"Sleeping Sickness" (Demo version)	4:14
6.	"What Makes a Man?" (Demo version)	3:36
7.	"Waiting..." (Demo version)	4:37
8.	"Constant Knot" (Quiet demo version)	4:38
9.	"Constant Knot" (Horns demo version)	4:20
10.	"Against the Grain" (Demo version)	4:46
11.	"Sensible Heart" (Demo version)	4:19
12.	"As Much as I Ever Could" (Demo version)	5:04
13.	"Faithless" (previously unreleased demo)	2:47
14.	"I Don't Need to Know" (previously unreleased demo)	3:34
Total length:		56:56

Personnel

• Dallas Green - vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (tracks 1,2,3, 4, 5,6 7, 8, 9, 10, 12), electric guitar (tracks 7, 12), piano (track 7)
• Daniel Romano - acoustic guitar (tracks 7, 8, 9, 10, 12), pedal steel (tracks 2, 8), percussion (tracks 2, 5), drums (tracks 3, 12), bass guitar (tracks 3, 7), organ (tracks 4, 7), slide guitar (track 2), mandolin (track 3), electric guitar (track 5), piano (track 11), vocals (track 12)
• Gordon Downie - vocals (track 5)
• Zander Lamothe - bass drum (track 5)
• Jordan Mitchell - vocals (track 8)
• Spencer Burton - vocals (track 10)
• Dan Under - vocals (track 12)
• David, Daniel, Ian and Joni Romano, Katie Parsons, Jordan Mitchell, Dan Achen - group vocals (track 8)

References

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2. "Dine Alone Records". DineAloneRecords.com. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
3. "City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love - Album Review". AbsolutePunk.net. 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
4. Fulton, Katherine (2008-02-11). "Bring Me Your Love - City and Colour : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
5. "PunkTV.ca". PunkTV.ca. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
6. "City and Colour: Bring Me Your Love". thestar.com. 2008-02-19. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
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10. "Dine Alone Records". DineAloneRecords.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
11. "City and Colour - Sleeping Sickness - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
12. Official Sleeping Sickness Music Video on Dine Alone Records channel on YouTube
13. "Sleeping Sickness by City and Colour - Interactive". CityandColour.ca. 2011-02-09. Archived from the original on 2011-02-09. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
14. Wright, Tania (May 16, 2013). "City and Colour (Dallas Green)". Yen Mag.
15. "City And Colour – Bring Me Your Love". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-12-10.

External links

• City and Colour official site (Flash site)
• City and Colour Myspace
• Dallas Green at Allmusic