The Impossible Thrill is a studio album by Alpha. It was released on Melankolic in 2001. It includes vocal contributions from Martin Barnard, Wendy Stubbs, and Helen White.
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64% based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Aidin Vaziri of Rolling Stone included it on the "Top Albums of 2001" list.
Track listing
Sample
"Blues" by Nino Rota on Almost There
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Corin Dingley – production, arrangement, mixing
Andy Jenks – production, arrangement, photography
Helen White – vocals (1, 4, 5, 11) Wendy Stubbs – vocals (2, 5, 8, 10) Martin Barnard – vocals (3, 6, 9) Grant Marshall – vocals (8) Sean Cook – harmonica Pete Wilde – piano Alex Lee – guitar Bob Locke – bass guitar Naked Voices – choir Allison Orbaum – choir arrangement Daniel Jones – orchestra arrangement Paul Hicks – orchestra engineering Chris Clark – orchestra engineering assistance Gavin Wright – strings conducting John Dent – mastering Emma Poole – art supervision Elissa Noad – layout Stephen Gill – photography Donald Milne – photography