Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) focusing on subjects such as the Liverpool dockers' strike, self-loathing pop stars and general disillusionment. Preceded in release a week by the single "Life's Too Short", "Tilt" was released by Epic Records in November 1999. A unique billboard campaign was developed to promote the album. The album was a commercial failure, only reaching number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. Its two singles also fared badly in the UK Singles Chart. Broudie was later unsatisfied with the album, and took the band on hiatus in 2000. After the Lightning Seeds had been a solo project for Ian Broudie, the project
Called Out in the Dark Called Out in the Dark "Called Out in the Dark" is a song by Northern Irish rock band Snow Patrol. The track was released as the first single from the band's sixth studio album "Fallen Empires" on 2 September 2011. It was made available both independently and on an EP with three other tracks from "Fallen Empires". "Called Out in the Dark" was shortlisted for Meteor Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2011. A version of the track also exists which is remixed by Norman Cook. The song was written by the band's frontman Gary Lightbody and produced