Ferment is the first full-length album by the English

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 alternative rock

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 band Catherine Wheel

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, released in 1992 (see 1992 in music

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). Four songs ("Shallow," "I Want to Touch You," "She's My Friend," and "Salt") had previously appeared on independently released 12"

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 EP

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s, and were re-recorded for inclusion on the album. The lead single, "Black Metallic," reached the top ten (peaking at number nine) of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks

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 chart. In March 2010, the album was re-released, containing bonus tracks and extensive sleeve notes.

Track listing

1. "Texture" – 4:19
2. "I Want to Touch You" – 4:40
3. "Black Metallic" – 7:18
4. "Indigo Is Blue" – 5:31
5. "She's My Friend" – 4:16
6. "Shallow" – 3:28
7. "Ferment" – 5:10
8. "Flower to Hide" – 4:43
9. "Tumbledown" – 4:08
10. "Bill and Ben" – 4:09
11. "Salt" – 5:26
12. "Balloon" – 3:56 (bonus track on US version of the CD)

Limited numbers of the UK version came with a three 3-track live EP, recorded at Bath Moles Club on 6 November 1991.

• CWLCD 1 (bonus CD); CWLVE12 (bonus 12" with vinyl LP album)
  1. "Shallow" (Live) – 3:27
  2. "I Want to Touch You" (Live) – 5:58
  3. "Salt" (Live) – 6:39

Singles

• "She's My Friend" (January 1991)
  • Wilde Club Records WILDE 4 (12" vinyl)
    1. "She's My Friend" – 4:29
    2. "Upside Down" – 3:13
    3. "Wish" – 3:10
    4. "Salt" – 3:54
• "Painful Thing" (May 1991)
  • Wilde Club Records WILDE 5 (12" vinyl); WILDE 5 CD (CD)
    1. "Shallow" – 3:27
    2. "Spin" – 2:44
    3. "Painful Thing" – 3:59
    4. "I Want to Touch You" – 5:05
• "Black Metallic" (November 1991)
  • Fontana CWCD 1 (CD); CW 112 (12" vinyl)
    1. "Black Metallic" – 7:16
    2. "Crawling Over Me" – 5:39
    3. "Let Me Down Again" – 3:17
    4. "Saccharine" – 5:49
  • Fontana CW 1 (7" vinyl)
    1. "Black Metallic" (Edit) – 4:09
    2. "Let Me Down Again" – 3:17
  • Mercury CDP 693 (US promo CD)
    1. "Black Metallic" – 7:16
    2. "Black Metallic" (UK Edit) – 4:09
    3. "Black Metallic" (KROQ
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        Edit) – 5:30
    4. "Let Me Down Again" – 3:17
• "Balloon" (February 1992)
  • Fontana CWCD 2 (CD)
    1. "Balloon" (Edit) – 3:56
    2. "Intravenous" – 3:31
    3. "Let Me Down Again" (Live) – 3:06
    4. "Painful Thing" (Live) – 6:21
  • Fontana CW 212 (12" vinyl)
    1. "Balloon" – 4:14
    2. "Intravenous" – 3:31
    3. "Let Me Down Again" (Live) – 3:06
    4. "Painful Thing" (Live) – 6:21
  • Fontana CW 2 (7" vinyl)
    1. "Balloon" (Edit) – 3:56
    2. "Intravenous" – 3:31
• "I Want to Touch You" (April 1992)
  • Fontana CWCD 3 (CD)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Remix) – 4:35
    2. "Ursa Major Space Station" – 5:04
    3. "Collideoscopic" – 4:07
    4. "Our Friend Joey" – 1:30
  • Fontana CW 312 (12" #1)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Remix) – 4:35
    2. "Dead Girl Friend" – 4:27
    3. "Ursa Major Space Station" – 5:04
    4. "Half Life" – 3:53
  • Fontana CWB 312 (12" #2)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Original Demo) – 5:04
    2. "Black Metallic" (Original Demo) – 4:04
    3. "Wish" (Original Demo) – 3:09
  • Fontana CW 3 (7" vinyl)
    1. "I Want to Touch You" (Remix) – 4:35
    2. "Ursa Major Space Station" – 5:04
• "30 Century Man" (December 1992)
  • Fontana CWCD 4 (CD); CW 412 (12" vinyl)
    1. "30 Century Man" (Scott Walker
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        cover) – 5:19
    2. "Free of Mind" – 3:33
    3. "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" (Mission of Burma
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        cover) – 4:07
    4. "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" (Hüsker Dü
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        cover) – 3:31

Personnel

Musician

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s:

• Rob Dickinson
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   – guitar
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  , vocals
• Brian Futter – guitar, vocals
• Dave Hawes – bass
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• Neil Sims – percussion
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Production

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:

• Tim Friese-Greene
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   – producer
• John Lee – producer, engineer
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• Tim Palmer – mixing
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• Alastair Thain – photography
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