Wikipedia:
Urban Hymns is the third studio album by English alternative rock band The Verve, released on 29 September 1997 on Hut Records. It earned nearly unanimous critical praise upon its release, and went on to become the band's best-selling release and one of the biggest selling albums of the year. It is currently ranked the 17th best-selling album in UK chart history.
The Verve had previously released two albums, A Storm in Heaven in 1993 and A Northern Soul in 1995. Neither album had achieved mainstream success, and the band split shortly after their second album due to internal conflicts. Vocalist Richard Ashcroft quickly reformed the group, with Simon Tong, an old friend of the band on guitar, however Ashcroft realised Nick McCabe's unique guitar style was required to complete the true Verve unit and later asked him to return. Tong also remained adding more guitar and keyboard/organ textures, making them a five-piece band and expanding their sound.
The four-piece had already recorded several tracks for the album with Youth as producer, but once McCabe returned they re-recorded several tracks and changed producers to Chris Potter. McCabe said that in the next seven months of work, "... the key tracks were recorded from scratch, but some of them were already there."
The cover photo was taken in Richmond Park, London.


Country: UK
Genre: Alternative rock, Britpop
Quality: FLAC/tracks+.cue

Tracklist:
01. Bitter Sweet Symphony (5:58)
02. Sonnet (4:21)
03. The Rolling People (7:01)
04. The Drugs Don't Work (5:05)
05. Catching The Butterfly (6:26)
06. Neon Wilderness (2:37)
07. Space And Time (5:36)
08. Weeping Willow (4:50)
09. Lucky Man (4:53)
10. One Day (5:03)
11. This Time (3:50)
12. Velvet Morning (4:58)
13. Lord I Guess I'll Never Know (4:50)
14. Come On (7:09)
15. Deep Freeze (2:13)