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, Kiely	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
Track listing
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 - Low Whistle and Tin Whistle on 2, 7, 8, 9 & 13, 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
Australian Albums Chart[9]	61
Austrian Albums Chart	29
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)	34
Dutch Albums Chart	93
French Albums Chart	69
Swiss Albums Chart	67
UK Albums Chart	52
US Billboard 200	139
US Top World Albums[10]	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