Shifting City


Shifting City is an album by John Foxx and Louis Gordon, released in 1997. Released simultaneously with Foxx's ambient album Cathedral Oceans, Shifting City was Foxx's first album release since In Mysterious Ways.
Stylistically Shifting City marked a return to the electronic sound of Foxx's 1980 solo album Metamatic, although it also shows an influence of 1960s The Beatles-style psychedelia, a style which Foxx had already experimented with on 1983's The Golden Section.
A 2 CD special edition was released in October 2009, including three previously unreleased bonus tracks. Disc Two of this special re-issue contains the previously released “The Omnidelic Exotour” material, recorded live by Foxx and Gordon at A Certain Ratio's Warehouse in Ancoats, Manchester and at Metamatic Studio in 1997.

Track listing

1997 original release

  1. "The Noise" – 4:17
  2. "Crash" – 5:24
  3. "Here We Go" – 7:03
  4. "Shadow Man" – 7:26
  5. "Through My Sleeping" – 5:03
  6. "Forgotten Years" – 5:43
  7. "Everyone" – 5:48
  8. "Shifting City" – 3:36
  9. "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible" – 5:42
  10. "An Ocean We Can Breathe" – 6:23
CD1
  1. The Noise
  2. Crash
  3. Here We Go
  4. Shadow Man
  5. Through My Sleeping
  6. Forgotten Years
  7. Everyone
  8. Shifting City
  9. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible
  10. An Ocean We Can Breathe
  11. Shadow Man
  12. Quiet Men
  13. Just For A Moment
CD2
  1. 20th Century
  2. Burning Car
  3. Overpass
  4. This City
  5. Hiroshima Mon Amour
  6. Just For A Moment
  7. Quiet Men
  8. Dislocation
  9. An Ocean We Can Breathe
  10. Through My Sleeping
  11. The Noise
  12. Shifting City
  13. Endlessly

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