Sean-Nós Nua

Sean-Nós Nua
Studio album by Sinéad O'Connor
Released	8 October 2002
Genre	Folk
Length	66:06
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Dónal Lunny, Alan Branch, Adrian Sherwood, Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor chronology
Faith and Courage (2000) Sean-Nós Nua (2002) She Who Dwells... (2003)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(65/100)[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Billboard	(favorable)[3]
Blender	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
Pitchfork Media	(6.3/10)[6]
PopMatters	[7][1]
Q	[1]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Uncut	[1]

Sean-Nós Nua is the sixth full-length album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor. It consists of traditional Irish songs, the title meaning "new old-style" and also referring to the popular style of traditional Irish music Sean-nós .

The album sold 225,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Peggy Gordon"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, C.V. Lunny, O Geibheannaigh, Wickham, Shannon	5:38
2.	"Her Mantle So Green"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, O Geibheannaigh, Shannon, Branch, Kelly	5:35
3.	"Lord Franklin"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, A. Maxwell, C.V. Lunny, Branch, Wickham, Lockett	4:59
4.	"The Singing Bird"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, Shannon, Wickham, Branch, O Geibheannaigh	4:27
5.	"Óró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, Branch, A. Maxwell, Ogilvie	3:19
6.	"Molly Malone"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, C.V. Lunny, A. Maxwell, B. Alexander	3:32
7.	"Paddy's Lament"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, Branch, Shannon, A. Maxwell, B. Alexander, Professor Stretch	5:26
8.	"The Moorlough Shore"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, B. Alexander, Branch, Kiely, O'Neill, A. Maxwell	5:25
9.	"The Parting Glass"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, Branch, C.V. Lunny, Kiely	4:31
10.	"Báidín Fheilimí"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, Ogilvie, Branch, A. Maxwell	3:20
11.	"My Lagan Love"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, Branch, A. Maxwell, Wickham, Professor Scretch, Lockett	4:42
12.	"Lord Baker (with Christy Moore)"	Trad. Arr.: Moore, Lunny, O'Connor	11:38
13.	"I'll Tell Me Ma"	Trad. Arr.: O'Connor, Lunny, Kiely, Wickham, Branch	2:21

Japanese Bonus Tracks
No.	Title	Length
14.	"Spanish Lady"
15.	"Marble Halls"

Personnel

• Sinéad O'Connor - vocals
• Dónal Lunny - acoustic guitar, bouzouki, keyboard, bodhran, bodhran bass
• Steve Wickham - fiddle (except tracks 7, 12 and 13), mandolin, banjo
• Sharon Shannon - accordion
• Alan Branch - percussion on track 12
• Abdullah Chhadeh - Quanun
• Nick Coplowe - Hammond organ
• Pete Lockett - percussion (except tracks 1, 9, 12 and 13)
• Cora Venus Lunny - violin on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7
• Kieran Kiely - keyboards, accordion on 9
• Skip McDonald - electric guitar
• Christy Moore - vocals on track 12
• Rob O Geibheannaigh - flute, strings, tin whistle, piano on 9, guitar on 3, banjo on 1 & 4
• Carlton "Bubblers" Ogilvie - drums, bass, piano
• Bernard O'Neill - acoustic bass
• Professor Stretch - drum and bass programming

Chart performance

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA Albums Chart)[9]	61
Austrian Album Charts	29
Belgian Album Charts (Flanders)	34
Dutch Album Charts	93
French Album Charts	69
Swiss Album Charts	67
U.S. Billboard 200	139
U.S Top World Albums	1

See also

• Goodnight, Thank You, You've Been a Lovely Audience – a 2003 live video album by O'Connor which features a documentary on the making of this album

References

1. "Critic Reviews for Sean-Nós Nua". Metacritic. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
2. Doerschuk, Robert L. "Sean-Nós Nua - Sinéad O'Connor". Allmusic.
3. "Sinead O'Connor: Sean-Nós Nua". Billboard. October 19, 2002. Archived from the original on 2002-10-21. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
4. Hermes, Will (2002-10-11). "Sean-Nos Nua Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
5. Hilburn, Robert (2002-10-06). "Jurassic 5's Power Surge". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
6. Richardson, Mark (2003-01-15). "Sinead O'Connor: Sean-Nós Nua". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
7. Levenfeld, Ari (2003-02-07). "Sinead O'Connor: Sean-Nos Nua". PopMatters. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
8. Miles, Milo (2002-09-25). "Sean-Nos Nua". Rolling Stone.
9. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.

External links

• Sean-Nós Nua at Metacritic