Scarlet and Other Stories is the second studio album by All About Eve

All About Eve (band)

All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...

. It is widely held to be considerably darker both in tone and lyrics than their first album, All About Eve

All About Eve (album)

All About Eve is the self-titled first album of All About Eve. Commercially, this was their most successful, reaching No.7 in the UK charts and spawning four Top 40 singles...

. Possible reasons for this included the disintegration of the (both personal and professional) relationship between Julianne Regan

Julianne Regan

Julianne Regan is an English singer, song writer, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve.- Early life :...

 (lead singer) and Tim Bricheno

Tim Bricheno

Tim Bricheno has been the guitarist and writer with several notable English indie bands, including All About Eve, The Sisters of Mercy, XC-NN and Tin Star...

 (lead guitarist) during the album's recording and production. Regan actually suffered something of a breakdown during this time and later stated that she hadn't wept as much in her life as she had during the making this album. (See her own page

Julianne Regan

Julianne Regan is an English singer, song writer, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve.- Early life :...

 for further detail.)

In terms of commercial success, Scarlet and Other Stories didn't quite match that of their first album; however, it still made it to No. 9 in the UK charts

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...

 with three Top 40

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

singles resulting from it.

Track listing

Bold indicates a single release (with UK chart position).

1. "Road to Your Soul" (37)
2. "Dream Now"
3. "Gold and Sliver"
4. "Scarlet" (34)
5. "December" (34)
6. "Blind Lemon Sam"
7. "More Than the Blues"
8. "Tuesday's Child"
9. "Pieces of Our Heart"
10. "Hard Spaniard"
11. "The Empty Dancehall"
12. "Only One Reason"
13. "The Pearl Fishermen"