El Presidente (album)

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El Presidente
Studio album by El Presidente
Released	24 October 2005
Recorded	Late 2004-Early 2005
Genre	Rock
Length	44:26
Label	Sony BMG
Producer	El Presidente
Professional reviews
The Observer (4/5) link

El Presidente is the self-entitled debut album from Scottish band El Presidente, released 24th October, 2005. The album was also released on 8th of February in Japan with two extra tracks, a new recording called "Lies" and a cover of Prince's "Raspberry Beret", which was also included as a B-side to "Turn This Thing Around". In total four singles have been released from the album, "Rocket", "100 MPH", "Without You" and "Turn This Thing Around".

The current line up of El Presidente is not actually featured on the album. It was recorded by Dante Gizzi and his brother Guiliano (Who played with Dante in the band Gun). Other guests on the album are Liam Nugent and Ross Galloway, who played synths and performed backing vocals respectively on the single "Rocket". Emma Murphy also performs backing vocals on "If You Say You Love Me", "Hanging Around" and "Old Times". Alan Thornton (also a former Gun member) drums on all tracks apart from the opening 3 tracks, and track 10. In the album's booklet it claims that Alan did indeed drum on the tenth track, but a recent investigatian showed that the booklet was misprinted, and in fact Dawn Zhu was the drummer. Zhu also plays on the opening three tracks.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Without You"
2. "Rocket"
3. "100 MPH"
4. "Turn This Thing Around"
5. "Count On Me"
6. "If You Say You Love Me"
7. "Hanging Around"
8. "I Didn't Really"
9. "Old Times"
10. "Keep On Walking"
11. "Honey"
12. "Come On Now"