Box of Secrets is the debut studio album of British singer Zarif , released on August 30, 2010.
| Box of secrets | |||||||
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| Studio album Zarif | |||||||
| Date of issue | August 30, 2010 | ||||||
| Recorded by | 2008-2009 | ||||||
| Genre | Soul pop | ||||||
| Duration | 33:46 | ||||||
| Producer | Zarif , Tommy D, Blair Makichan, Full Phatt, Utters, Fraser T. Smith | ||||||
| A country |  Great Britain | ||||||
| Label | Bright pink records | ||||||
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| Reviews | |
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| Critics' ratings | |
| A source | Rating |
| Evening standard |   [one] |
| Fame magazine | (positive) [2] |
| The guardian | [3] |
| News of the world | [four] |
| Yahoo! Music | (positive) [5] |
Content
About the album
Box of Secrets includes three singles: “ let Me Back ”, “ Box of Secrets ” and “Over”.
Other tracks included on the album are: California, Words and Summer in your Eyes [6] Breakout, Silence Room, Seen It All Before [7] and Can't Do Nothing . The producers were Tommy D ( Corinne Bailey Ray , Kanye West , Jay-Z ), Blair Makichan ( Lily Allen ), Full Phatt ( The Rolling Stones , Christina Milian ) and Fraser T. Smith ( Kano , James Morrison ) [8] .
Despite the fact that Zarif released “Let Me Back” on Sony BMG / RCA labels and recorded a full-length album there, nonetheless Box of Secrets was released on her own label, Bright Pink Records.
Singles
- “ Let Me Back ” was released as the debut single of Zarif on April 5, 2009. A music video was shot for the song, directed by Rebel Alliance.
- Box of Secrets, the album’s title track, was released as the second single on August 16, 2010. On the single version of the rap song, Mz performed. Bratt. In the original version of the song there are no rap parts. A music video was also directed at Box of Secrets, directed by Andy Hilton.
- "Over" was originally supposed to be released as the second single Box of Secrets on August 10, 2009, but was eventually postponed. The song was later released as the third single of the album on March 27, 2011. The director of the 2009 music video for the song was King Berza .
List of Songs
The Box of Secrets tracklist is as follows [9] :
- Box of Secrets - 3:42
- Seen It All Before - 3:40
- “Breakout” - 3:20
- “The Day The Music Left” - 3:41
- “Over” - 3:20
- “You Take The Darkness” - 4:00
- California 4:07
- Silence Room - 3:45
- Stop What You Are Doing - 3:50
- Words - 4:23
- “Let Me Back” - 3:40
- Summer In Your Eyes - 4:05
- Box of Secrets (featuring Mz Bratt ) (Single) - 3:42
- Original tracklist of 2009
Originally Box of Secrets was supposed to be released in 2009, after the release of the single “Over”. However, after his release was canceled, this version of the album also remained unreleased. This edition includes another version of the song “Can't Do Nothing,” which ended up not getting into the final tracklist.
- “Let Me Back” - 3:40
- California 4:07
- “Over” - 3:20
- Box of Secrets (original solo version) - 3:42
- “Can't Do Nothing” - 3:18
- Summer In Your Eyes - 4:05
- Breakout 3:20
- Silence Room - 3:45
- Seen It All Before - 3:40
- Words - 4:23
- “You Take The Darkness” - 4:00
- Stop What You Are Doing 3:50
Notes
- ↑ Evening Standard review Archived August 21, 2010.
- ↑ Fame Magazine review
- ↑ The Guardian review
- ↑ News of the World review
- ↑ Yahoo! Music review
- ↑ Zarif - Let Me Back (04/06/2009). Date of treatment April 7, 2009.
- ↑ Zarif: Biography . www.zarif.co.uk. Date of treatment April 3, 2009. Archived on October 6, 2011.
- ↑ music-house.co.uk: Zarif (link not available)
- ↑ Zarif - Box Of Secrets - CDs at Play.com (UK)