Four Winds is the sixth studio album from rock group The Lightning Seeds, and is their first album of new material since 1999. It was released on 25 May 2009 under Universal's Stage Three Records.

The first single, "Ghosts", was released on May 11, 2009.

Release and reception

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie is a British singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool, England. After emerging from the post punk scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s as a member of Big in Japan, Broudie went on to form the short-lived groups Original Mirrors and Care in the early 1980s as well...

 (except where stated).

1. "4 Winds"
2. "Things Just Happened"
3. "Ghosts" (Broudie/James Skelly)
4. "Said and Done"
5. "Don't Walk on By"
6. "The Story Goes" (Broudie/J. Mullen)
7. "On a Day Like This" (Broudie/Skelly)
8. "I'll Be Around"
9. "All I Do"
10. "I Still Feel the Same" (Broudie/Matt Cullen)

Personnel

The Lightning Seeds

• Ian Broudie
  Ian Broudie
  Ian Broudie is a British singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool, England. After emerging from the post punk scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s as a member of Big in Japan, Broudie went on to form the short-lived groups Original Mirrors and Care in the early 1980s as well...
  
   – vocals, guitar, producer

Production

• Simon Rogers
  Simon Rogers
  Simon Rogers is a British musician and composer, notable for his chart success both as a musician and as a producer as well as for his considerable portfolio of television soundtrack work.-Biography:...
  
   – string and woodwind arrangements
• Dave Bascombe – mixing
• Stephen Harris
  Stephen Harris (producer)
  Stephen Harris is an English music producer and mixer. He has worked with artists including Dave Matthews Band, Ben Kweller, Blue Merle, Kula Shaker, and with B-Unique bands such as Kaiser Chiefs, The Automatic and Pull Tiger Tail...
  
   – mixing

Additional musicians

• James Skelly
  The Coral
  The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...
  
   – guitar
• Paul Duffy
  The Coral
  The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...
  
   – guitar
• Nick Power
  The Coral
  The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...
  
   – keyboards
• Lee Southall
  The Coral
  The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...
  
   – bass
• Ian Skelly
  The Coral
  The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...
  
   – drums
• Raife Burchell – drums
• Scott Marmion – backing vocals
• Sophie Paterson – backing vocals

Other personnel

• Pelle Crépin – photography

Charts

Charts (2009)	Peak chart position
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	67

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