As We Once Were

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Du Temps Perdu (Introduction)
  1:02
• 2
  Throw Over Your Man

  feat. James Dean Bradfield
  3:54
• 3
  I Had a Baby Not a Lobotomy

  feat. Gwenno
  3:56
• 4
  Damsels

  feat. Eaves Wilder
  3:23
• 5
  As We Once Were
  3:42
• 6
  Happiness Don't Show Up Like It Should (Prologue)
  1:55
• 7
  All I Really Want Is Peace
  4:00
• 8
  Stop the World
  5:06
• 9
  Du Temps Perdu (reprise)
  0:59
• 10
  What You Did
  5:17
• 11
  All Fall Down

  feat. Hannah Peel
  5:13
• 12
  Hand to the Tide
  5:55
• 13
  She Knows Her Place
  5:07
• 14
  Happiness Don't Show Up Like It Should (Epilogue)
  1:40
• CD 2
• 1
  All I Really Want Is Peace (Alt Orchestra mix)
  4:00
• 2
  All Fall Down (Ripe version)
  4:39
• 3
  Stop the World (Solo piano version)
  3:53
• 4
  All I Really Want Is Peace (Midi Strings demo)
  3:58
• 5
  What You Did (Ripe version)
  3:25
• 6
  Throw Over Your Man (Sped-Up radio version)
  3:48
• 7
  Throw Over Your Man (Drum Machine demo)
  3:52
• 8
  What You Did (Dictaphone Writing demo)
  2:44
• 9
  Stop the World (original Writing demo)
  2:49
• 10
  Hand to the Tide (Writing demo excerpt)
  2:36
• 11
  Happiness Don't Show Up Like It Should (instrumental)
  1:55
• 12
  I Had a Baby Not a Lobotomy (instrumental)
  3:57
• 13
  As We Once Were (instrumental)
  3:42
• 14
  Damsels (Cross Bone T remix)
  4:39
• 15
  Damsels (James Adrian Brown remix)
  3:08
• 16
  As We Once Were (Jermaine Soul remix)
  4:35

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Release credits

• Alex Deamer
  acoustic guitar [10], slide guitar [2.1, 1.7, 1.11]
• Band Spectra
  analog synthesizer [3], drum machine [3], sampler [2.12-13, 1.3, 1.5], synthesizer [2.12, 2.12-13, 2.13, 1.3, 1.5]
• Catherine Anne Davies
  Hammond organ [13], Moog [2.1-2, 2.6, 1.2, 1.7, 1.10-11], Wurlitzer electric piano [1.7, 2.1], acoustic guitar [5], analog synthesizer [2.1-2, 2.2, 2.6, 2.11-12, 2.12-13, 2.13, 1.2, 1.2-3, 1.3-5, 1.5-8, 1.10, 1.10-11, 1.11, 1.11-12, 1.14], banjo [13], chamberlin [1.7, 2.1], drum machine [7], electric guitar [1.2-5, 1.7, 1.10-12, 2.1, 2.6-7, 2.12-13], farfisa [1.2, 1.7, 2.1, 2.6-7], field recordist [13], flute [13], grand piano [1.6, 1.14, 2.11], guitar [8], mandolin [14], mellotron [1.2, 1.7, 1.10-13, 2.1-2, 2.5-7], melodica [1.7-8, 2.1], mix [2-5, 7], musical box [1, 9], omnichord [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 1.7-8, 1.10-11, 1.13], organ [2.1, 2.6-7, 1.2, 1.7], percussion [2.1, 2.6-7, 1.2, 1.7-8, 1.10, 1.12], piano [2.8-10, 1.11, 1.13], producer [1.1-14, 2.1-7, 2.11-13], programming [11], string synthesizer [1.2, 1.10-12, 2.6], synthesizer [2.2, 2.11-13, 1.3, 1.3-6, 1.8, 1.10-11, 1.13-14], upright piano [2.1, 2.3-6, 1.1-2, 1.7-10, 1.12], vocal [1.2-8, 1.10-14, 2.1-10]
• Charlie Cawood
  electric bass guitar [1.2, 1.4, 1.7-8, 1.10-11, 2.1, 2.5-6], electric upright bass [13], taishogoto [13], theremin [2.1, 1.7, 1.13], zither [13]
• Dave Eringa
  mix [2.1, 2.6, 2.11-13, 1.1-11, 1.13-14]
• Debbie Diamond
  viola [1.7, 2.1], violin [2.1, 1.7]
• Dominic Chad
  electric guitar [10]
• Eaves Wilder
  additional [4]
• Gillian Wood
  cello [2.1, 1.7-8], strings [1.7-8, 2.1, 2.4]
• Gwenno Saunders
  additional [3]
• Hannah Peel
  additional [11]
• James Adrian Brown
  remixer [15]
• James Dean Bradfield
  electric guitar [2.6, 1.2], vocal [2.6, 1.2]
• Jermainesoul
  remixer [16]
• Jon Astley
  mastering
• Keir Adamson
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.6, 2.12-13, 1.2-5, 1.7-8, 1.10-13]
• Leoni Jane Kennedy
  electric guitar [2.1, 1.7]
• Mikko Gordon
  mix [12]
• Paul McGeechan
  mastering
• Tim Bowen
  cello [10]
• Tim Elsenberg
  additional [12], banjo [12], drum machine [12], electric bass guitar [12], electric guitar [12], percussion [12]
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  As We Once Were

  Digital Media
  7 August 2026
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  As We Once Were

  Digital Media
  7 August 2026
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  As We Once Were

  2x CD (deluxe edition)
  7 August 2026
• A
  As We Once Were

  CD
  7 August 2026
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  As We Once Were

  Cassette
  7 August 2026
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  As We Once Were

  2x 12" Vinyl
  7 August 2026