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Split is the second album by British

United Kingdom

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shoegazing

Shoegazing

Shoegazing is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991...

act Lush

Lush (band)

Lush were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were one of the first bands to attract the "shoegazing" label...

, released on 4AD

4AD

4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today...

on June 13, 1994 in the UK and a day later in the US. Two singles were released from the album: "Desire Lines" and "Hypocrite," both released on May 30, 1994. Split was reissued by 4AD on CD in July 2001.

Track listing

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue #
United Kingdom	13 June 1994	4AD 4AD 4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today...	CD	CAD 4011 CD
			LP	CAD 4011
			Cassette	CAD C 4011
United States	14 June 1994	4AD/Reprise Reprise Records Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...	CD	9 45578-2
Japan	20 March 1996	Nippon Columbia	CD	COCY-80093
United Kingdom	2 July 2001	4AD	CD (reissue)	GAD 4011 CD

Singles

"Hypocrite" (30 May 1994)
- CD (BAD 4008 CD); 12" vinyl (BAD 4008)
  1. "Hypocrite" – 2:58
  2. "Love at First Sight" – 5:12
  3. "Cat's Chorus" – 3:23
  4. "Undertow" (Spooky Remix) – 9:13
- 7" vinyl (AD 4008)
  1. "Hypocrite" – 2:58
  2. "Cat's Chorus" – 3:23
"Desire Lines" (30 May 1994)
- CD (BAD 4010 CD); 12" vinyl (BAD 4010)
  1. "Desire Lines" – 7:29
  2. "White Wood" – 4:14
  3. "Girl's World" – 4:56
  4. "Lovelife" (Suga Bullit Remix) – 8:15
- 7" vinyl (AD 4010)
  1. "Desire Lines" – 7:29
  2. "Girl's World" – 4:56
"When I Die" (PROMO ONLY, June 1994)
- Radio promo CD (PRO-CD-7048)
  1. "When I Die" (Scott Litt
    Scott Litt
    Scott Litt is an American record producer who mostly works with artists in the alternative rock genre and is best known for producing six R.E.M. albums.-Biography:...
    
    Remix) – 4:20
  2. "Light from a Dead Star" (Album Version) – 3:17
  3. "Lovelife" (Album Version) – 3:57

Personnel

Chris Acland
Chris Acland
Chris Acland was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the London based shoegazing and britpop musical ensemble, Lush.-Biography:Christopher John Dyke Acland was born in Lancaster Infirmary...

– drums
Drum kit
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Emma Anderson
Emma Anderson
Emma Anderson is an English musician. She is best known for being a songwriter, guitarist and backing singer in the shoegazing/Britpop band, Lush. As a keen music fan, she used to write a fanzine called Alphabet Soup with school friend Miki Berenyi when she was a teenager...

– guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

s, vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
Miki Berenyi
Miki Berenyi
Miki Berenyi is an English musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist.- Music :At the age of 14, Berenyi met her friend and future bandmate, Emma Anderson. They became interested in music and together wrote the music fanzine Alphabet Soup...

– vocals, guitars
Phil King
Phil King
Phil King is an English musician, best known for being the bass guitarist in Lush.-Music:He joined Lush in 1992 before their second album Split. In a 2008 interview with Von Pip Musical Express, King recalled how he joined Lush. "Miki called me up at work. I was a picture researcher at the NME at...

– bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

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