Womb of Dreams is the debut album by electro

Electro (music)

Electro is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling...

-disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 band Fan Death

Fan Death

Fan Death is a Italo disco band which started in Brooklyn, New York in 2007 and is now based in Vancouver, British Columbia.In 2008, Erol Alkan remixed and released their debut single Veronica's Veil on his Phantasy Sounds label. Following this Big Love Records from Tokyo released the single...

. It was released on August 6, 2010.

Critical reception

Luke Winkie of musicOMH

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 wrote that "The album becomes more traditionalist and (un-coincidentally) more fun-loving around its middle...When Fan Death are clicking, they're a force to be reckoned with, the band's chemistry practically oozing from the songs."

Garry Mulholland from the BBC

BBC

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 wrote that Fan Death

Fan Death

Fan Death is a Italo disco band which started in Brooklyn, New York in 2007 and is now based in Vancouver, British Columbia.In 2008, Erol Alkan remixed and released their debut single Veronica's Veil on his Phantasy Sounds label. Following this Big Love Records from Tokyo released the single...

 had "made a debut album that successfully adds up to more than the sum of its hip influences" and "will induce waves of pure pleasure in those of us who will never tire of a melancholy melody, a dodgy synthetic string motif and a disco beat."

Track listing

1. "Constellations"
2. "Veronica’s Veil"
3. "Choose Tonight"
4. "Phantom Sensation"
5. "The Best Night"
6. "When The Money’s Right"
7. "Reunited"
8. "The Son Will Rise"
9. "Crowd Control"
10. "Side By Side"
11. "Almost There"

Personnel

• Producer
  Record producer
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  - Szam Findlay
• Vocals
  Singing
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  - Dandilion Wind Opaine
  Dandi Wind
  Dandi Wind is a post-industrial band created in Vancouver, Canada in 2003. The band consisted of duo Dandilion Wind Opaine and Szam Findlay. Opaine went on to form the disco band Fan Death...
  
  , Marta Jacuibek-McKeever
• Music- Szam Findlay, Dandilion Wind Opaine
  Dandi Wind
  Dandi Wind is a post-industrial band created in Vancouver, Canada in 2003. The band consisted of duo Dandilion Wind Opaine and Szam Findlay. Opaine went on to form the disco band Fan Death...
  
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• Lyrics
  Lyrics
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  - Dandilion Wind Opaine
  Dandi Wind
  Dandi Wind is a post-industrial band created in Vancouver, Canada in 2003. The band consisted of duo Dandilion Wind Opaine and Szam Findlay. Opaine went on to form the disco band Fan Death...
  
  

Additional Musicians

• Ariel Barnes- Cello
  Cello
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• Max Murphy- Baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
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• Dameian Walsh- Alto saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
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• Nimish Parekh- Trombone
  Trombone
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• Kent Wallace- Trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Markus Takizawa- Viola
  Viola
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• Mark Ferris- 1st Violin
  Violin
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• Cameron Wilson- 2nd Violin
• Parker Bossley- Bass
  Bass guitar
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Production

• Mike Marsh- Audio mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Austin Garrick and Mike Rocha- Mixing
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• Leo Chadburn- String & Horn Arrangement/Conductor
  Conducting
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• Matt Anderson- Additional Drum Programming
  Drum machine
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   (tracks 2-5)
• Kevin James Maher
  Kevin James Maher
  Kevin “Kevvy Mental” Maher is a Canadian musician, film composer, remix artist and music producer, most notable for his work in Fake Shark - Real Zombie! as lead vocalist and programmer.-Early life:...
  
  - Engineer and Additional Production
• Scott Ternan- String & Horn Engineer