Hide & Seek is the debut studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Janet Devlin. It received a limited release via PledgeMusic on 1 July 2013. It received a general release on 9 June 2014 under the new title Running with Scissors, including four original songs as well as reworked versions of some of the songs from Hide & Seek.
Background and composition
Following her participation in the eighth series of the British X Factor and the X Factor Tour, Devlin started working on her debut studio album.
All of the songs were written in collaboration by Devlin and songwriters including Newton Faulkner, Eliot Kennedy and Jack Savoretti.
The limited release of the album via PledgeMusic included a bonus four-track acoustic EP, Nothing Lost, which was released on 14 August 2013. This EP had additional tracks co-written with Savoretti and Joe Janiak included as well as a cover of her X Factor audition song, "Your Song" by Elton John.
A version of "Delicate" originally included on the EP Nothing Lost was later added to the final track listing for the general release of Hide & Seek.
Singles "Wonderful" was released in November 2013 as the album's lead single. The song peaked at No. 25 on the UK Indie Chart and at No. 3 on the Indie Breakers Chart. Its music video was released on 1 November 2013.
Track listing
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Personnel
Musicians Janet Devlin – lead vocals Jim Jayawardena – piano, keyboards, organ Roo Walker – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Roberto Mario Ruiz – electric bass Doug Harper – drums, percussion Eliot Kennedy – backing vocals Kat Eaton – backing vocals
Technical personnel Eliot Kennedy – production, mixing Jim Jayawardena – production, mixing James Campbell – engineering John Davis – mixing (single version of "Wonderful"), mastering Rosie Hardy – photography, design Simon Blois – design
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