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Shifting City
Studio album by John Foxx & Louis Gordon
Released	24 March 1997
Recorded	MetaMatic Studio CRoms studio 1995
Genre	Electronic
Length	56:16
Label	Metamatic Records
Producer	Louis Gordon & John Foxx
John Foxx chronology
Cathedral Oceans (1997) Shifting City (1997) The Pleasures of Electricity (2001)
Louis Gordon chronology
Shifting City (1997) The Pleasures of Electricity (2001)

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Shifting City is an album by John Foxx and Louis Gordon, released in 1997 simultaneously with Foxx's ambient album Cathedral Oceans, Shifting City was Foxx's first album release since In Mysterious Ways (1985).

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" (Foxx) – 4:17
2. "Crash" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:24
3. "Here We Go" (Foxx, Gordon) – 7:03
4. "Shadow Man" (Foxx) – 7:26
5. "Through My Sleeping" (Foxx) – 5:03
6. "Forgotten Years" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:43
7. "Everyone" (Foxx, Gordon) – 5:48
8. "Shifting City" (Foxx) – 3:36
9. "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible" (Foxx, Gordon, Leven) – 5:42
10. "An Ocean We Can Breathe" (Foxx, Gordon) – 6:23

• "Through My Sleeping" (originally titled "Leaving") and "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible" are rerecordings of material originally recorded by Foxx with Nation 12. On Nation 12's Electrofear album the tracks are credited to John Foxx, Shem McAuley, Kurt Rodgers and Simon Rodgers.

2009 Special edition

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" (Early Version - Mono mix)
12. "Quiet Men" (Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour)
13. "Just for a Moment" (Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour)

CD2

1. "20th Century" (Omnidelic Exotour)
2. "Burning Car" (Omnidelic Exotour)
3. "Overpass" (Omnidelic Exotour)
4. "This City" (Omnidelic Exotour)
5. "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (Omnidelic Exotour)
6. "Just for a Moment" (Omnidelic Exotour)
7. "Quiet Men" (Omnidelic Exotour)
8. "Dislocation" (Omnidelic Exotour)
9. "An Ocean We Can Breathe" (Omnidelic Exotour)
10. "Through My Sleeping" (Omnidelic Exotour)
11. "The Noise" (Omnidelic Exotour)
12. "Shifting City" (Omnidelic Exotour)
13. "Endlessly" (Omnidelic Exotour)

Personnel

• John Foxx: vocals, synthesisers, rhythm machines
• Louis Gordon: synthesisers, rhythm machines, backing vocals

References

1. "Metamatic: The Official John Foxx Website discography". Retrieved 28 December 2024.
2. ^ Shifting City CD liner notes
3. ^ Storer, Alex. "John Foxx & Louis Gordon - Shifting City". Quiet City - The Music of John Foxx. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
4. ^ "Shifting City > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
5. Allmusic review
6. Electrofear CD liner notes

• John Foxx albums
• 1997 albums