Songs from the Deep Forest


Songs from the Deep Forest is an album by the Northern Irish artist Duke Special. In May 2006 it was released as a limited edition set of six 7" vinyl discs and then re-released as a single CD in October of the same year. It has been nominated for a 2007 Meteor Music Award for best Irish album, and for the 2007 Choice Music Prize.
On October 1, 2007, a special 2-disc edition was released which included the new song Our Love Goes Deeper Than This which featured Neil Hannon and Romeo Stodart.
A bonus second disc was included in this edition and includes songs from the live BBC performance recorded in Belfast.

Track listing

Single Disc

The album has twelve tracks:
  1. Wake Up Scarlett
  2. Everybody Wants a Little Something
  3. Brixton Leaves
  4. Freewheel
  5. No Cover Up
  6. Portrait
  7. Last Night I Nearly Died
  8. Ballad of a Broken Man
  9. Salvation Tambourine
  10. Something Might Happen
  11. Slip of a Girl
  12. This Could Be My Last Day
Earlier versions of "Last Night I Nearly Died ", "Freewheel" and "Wake up Scarlett" appeared on Adventures in Gramophone, and an earlier version of "Portrait" appeared on the Your Vandal EP.

Bonus Version

A special "Bonus Version of the Album" contains two additional tracks:
  1. Salvation Tambourine
  2. And It Stoned Me

    Special Edition

Disc 1

  1. Wake Up Scarlett
  2. Everybody Wants a Little Something
  3. Brixton Leaves
  4. Our Love Goes Deeper Than This
  5. Freewheel
  6. No Cover Up
  7. Portrait
  8. Last Night I Nearly Died
  9. Ballad of a Broken Man
  10. Salvation Tambourine
  11. Something Might Happen
  12. Slip of a Girl
  13. This Could Be My Last Day

    Disc 2

  14. Overture
  15. Brixton Leaves
  16. Last Night I Nearly Died
  17. Portrait
  18. Wake Up Scarlett
  19. Regarding the Moonlight in Eastbourne
  20. Salvation Tambourine
  21. No Cover Up
  22. I Let You Down
  23. Freewheel