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Scratch My Back received generally positive reviews from most music critics.
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Reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Marc Bessant – graphic design, design concept.Hungarian Orchestra - orchestra performance ("The Book of Love").The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford – choir ("My Body is a Cage").


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Laurence Greed – Pro Tools editor assistant.Olga Fitzroy – Air Studios sessions recording assistant, Pro Tools editor.Steve Orchard – Air Studios sessions recording.Kölcsényi Attila – recording ("The Book of Love").Kurina Támas – recording ("The Book of Love").Mark Claydon – assistant mixing (except "The Book of Love").Pete Sené – assistant engineering (except "The Book of Love").Tchad Blake – mixing ("My Body is a Cage", "Après moi").Richard Chappell – mixing, engineering (except "The Book of Love"), Air Studios sessions recording.Randy Newman – arrangement ("I Think It's Going to Rain Today").Will Gregory – arrangement ("The Book of Love").Nick Ingman – arrangement ("The Book of Love"), orchestration ("The Book of Love").John Metcalfe – arrangement (except "The Book of Love" and "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"), mixing (except "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"), orchestration (except "The Book of Love"), additional "Oxford" recording.Peter Gabriel – production, arrangement ("The Book of Love"), design concept.On 17 April 2010 "The Book of Love" / "Not One of Us" as well as "Flume" / "Come Talk to Me" were also released on 7" vinyl to independent record stores. The third in the series, Gabriel's take on "Flume" paired with Bon Iver's seven-minute long version of "Come Talk to Me" was released on 30 March 2010. Gabriel's version of "The Boy in the Bubble" coupled with Paul Simon's version of " Biko" was the second, released on 28 February 2010.

The first, "The Book of Love" – Gabriel's cover of a Magnetic Fields song, together with "Not One of Us" – Stephin Merritt's (The Magnetic Fields' frontman) cover of a Peter Gabriel song, was released on 30 January 2010.
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However, as completion of the latter dragged out, it was instead decided to release a series of double A-sided singles with one song from each album every new full moon during 2010 on iTunes. Gabriel originally intended to release Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours simultaneously. " Waterloo Sunset" (Oxford London Temple version) "My Body Is a Cage" (Oxford London Temple version)īutler, Chassagne, Parry, Kingsbury, Butler, Gara, Neufeld Nail your colours to the mast and say, ‘This is different, and it isn’t everybody's cup of tea. If you’re going to reinterpret something, then really do something. With several new artists aboard, the slightly retitled And I'll Scratch Yours was released in September 2013.Īccording to Gabriel, although he and arranger John Metcalfe had talked about Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich as inspiration, it was the work that Metcalfe did on "Heroes" that "gave us the confidence to be bold in the way in which we were going to approach the record." "Heroes" became the opening track because "without any of the drive of guitar and builds an enormous tension that bursts open." Initially planned to be released simultaneously with Scratch My Back in 2010, several artists were late in delivering their songs or ultimately declined to participate, necessitating changes to the companion album's concept. The idea behind the Scratch My Back project is a song exchange where each artist would cover one of Gabriel's songs in return for his covering one of theirs the other artists' renditions of Gabriel's songs were to appear on an album titled I'll Scratch Yours.
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Scratch My Back was initially released on compact disc and as music download a vinyl album edition was subsequently released in late March 2010. 3 on the Rock Albums chart on 12 March 2010. 2 on the Independent Albums chart and No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart on 21 February 2010, the week following its release. In Gabriel's native United Kingdom it peaked at No. It also reached the top 5 in France and Sweden. 3 in the Czech Republic, Italy and Switzerland. The album generally received favourable reviews by music journalists and performed well on the album charts around the world, peaking at No. It is produced by Gabriel with Bob Ezrin. The album, recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during 2009, consists of cover versions of twelve songs by various artists, using only orchestra and voice. Scratch My Back is the eighth studio album (and fifteenth album overall) by English musician Peter Gabriel, his first in eight years. "The Power of the Heart" / " Solsbury Hill".
