Eclectric (Svoy album)

2005 studio album by Svoy

Eclectric

Studio album by

Svoy

Released| December 13, 2005 (2005-12-13)
Recorded| 2003–2005
Genre| Electronica, pop, alternative rock
Length| 47:10 (U.S.)
54:55 (Japan)
Label| Mack Avenue Records/Sony Music Entertainment (U.S.)
Thistime Records (Japan)
Producer| Svoy
Svoy chronology
|  | Eclectric
(2005)  | Automatons
(2009)

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Alternative Cover

Japan Edition Cover

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
The Celebrity Cafe| [1]
YouSuckIRule| (favorable)[2]
Hybrid Magazine| (favorable)[3]
Arjan Writes| (favorable)[4]
Artist Direct| (favorable)[5]
PopMatters| [6]
TourDates.co.uk| (unfavorable)[7]
antiMusic.com| (mixed)[8]
Flake Records| (favorable)[9]
Bounce Magazine| (favorable)[10]
Music talks.| (7.3/10)[11]

Eclectric is the first solo album by Svoy. It was originally released independently on December 13, 2005 on Svoy's Sixteenth Republic Records and later licensed, remastered, re-packaged and re-released May 1, 2007 by Rendezvous Entertainment/Universal Music Group to generally positive critical reviews. After Rendezvous' acquisition by Mack Avenue Records in August 2008,[12] the album became part of the Mack Avenue/Sony Music Entertainment catalogue. As an import, the record gained substantial popularity in Japan and on July 8, 2009, was released by Tokyo-based Thistime Records as a 2-CD set featuring two bonus tracks on the first CD and Svoy's Consequence EP 1.0 on the second. Japan edition also featured new booklet with revised extended artwork and a separate slip with biography and lyrics translated into Japanese. In 2012, the master license to both Rendezvous/Mack Avenue and Thistime Records expired with the sound recording rights to the album reverting to Svoy. After a brief confrontation with the labels to cease distributing the album, Svoy remastered and re-released Eclectric internationally in the fall of the same year.

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Driving Away"| Svoy| 3:36
2.| "The Other Side"| Svoy| 4:01
3.| "I Don't Love"| Svoy| 3:27
4.| "On My Own"| Svoy| 3:36
5.| "Make You Mine"| Svoy| 3:45
6.| "Cared More"| Svoy| 4:36
7.| "One Night Stand"| Svoy| 4:11
8.| "Looking For You"| Svoy| 4:06
9.| "Stronger Than Wind"| Svoy| 4:08
10.| "Shy"| Svoy| 7:31
11.| "Eclectric Unwinder"| Svoy| 0:31
12.| "To What It Used To Be"| Svoy| 4:21

Japan Bonus TracksNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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13.| "Sadness Dwells"| Svoy, Daichi Miyata| 2:33
14.| "Feel"| Svoy| 5:12

## Personnel

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* Svoy – keyboards, vocals, producer, programming, vocal arrangement, sound engineering, mixing, mastering (track 13, 14; 2012 remastered version), artwork revision (Japan edition; 2012 version)
* Myles D'Marco – guitar (track 7)
* A-ux – co-production (track 8)
* Steve Fallone – mastering
* Daichi Miyata – co-production (track 13)
* Shoshannah White – photography
* Kevin Reagan – art direction, design, photography, collages
* Lauren Taylor – design, collages, photography
* Dave Koz – executive producer
* Frank Cody – executive producer
* Hyman Katz – executive producer
* Jeff Chiang – product manager

## Release history

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Region  | Date  | Label

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United States  | December 13, 2005 (2005-12-13) | Mack Avenue Records/Sony Music Entertainment
May 1, 2007 (2007-05-01)
Japan  | July 8, 2009 (2009-07-08) | Thistime Records

## References

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1. ^ "The Celebrity Cafe review". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
2. ^ YouSuckIRule review
3. ^ Hybrid Magazine review
4. ^ Arjan Writes review
5. ^ Artist Direct review
6. ^ PopMatters review
7. ^ TourDates.co.uk review
8. ^ antiMusic.com review
9. ^ Flake Records review
10. ^ Bounce Magazine review
11. ^ Music talks. review
12. ^ "Mack Avenue Announces Acquisition of Rendezvous Entertainment" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-10-01.

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