Chasing Shadows (The Comsat Angels album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Chasing Shadows

| type = studio

| artist = The Comsat Angels

| cover = Comsat Angels - Chasing Shadows-cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1986

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Post-punk

| length = 41:32

| label = Island

| producer = The Comsat Angels, Kevin Moloney, Rob Fraboni

| prev_title = 7 Day Weekend

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = Fire on the Moon

| next_year = 1990

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r33757|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

Chasing Shadows is the Comsat Angels' sixth album, released in 1986 on Island Records.

Having left Jive Records, the band had gotten a recording contract with Island, aided by Robert Palmer, who confessed on a TV show to be a fan of the Comsat Angels.[http://www.renascent.co.uk/# the comsat angels, q&a] As a thank you, he was credited as "executive producer" on the album, and also provided vocals for the song "You'll Never Know."The Comsat Angels Q&A at [http://www.renascent.co.uk/ Renascent Records]

The track "The Cutting Edge" was released as a single, with "Something's Got to Give" on the B-side.[http://www.hotsdesign.co.uk/comsats/web.htm Comsat Angels website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230111447/http://www.hotsdesign.co.uk/comsats/web.htm |date=2012-12-30 }} The latter song was not included on the album, but later appeared as a demo track on the 2007 release To Before.[http://www.hotsdesign.co.uk/comsats/story2.htm Comsat Angels website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521123529/http://www.hotsdesign.co.uk/comsats/story2.htm |date=2012-05-21 }} The original version appeared on the 2015 reissue of Chasing Shadows.

Chasing Shadows was regarded by the band as a departure from their two prior albums, Land and 7 Day Weekend, which were produced by Jive Records. During a 1997 interview, frontman Stephen Fellows agreed with a suggestion that Chasing Shadows displayed his best vocal performance, adding: "I liked Rockfield, where we recorded Chasing Shadows cos it was very informal. We played mostly live, with vocals added later. Sleep No More was done live – the feel, capturing the moment. Obviously the Jive albums weren't done like that – assembled by machines in another room while we watched television and ate fruit".Step Off, interviews, Stephen Fellows interviewed by Tony Kinson 13/3/97 {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020815030649/http://www.comsatangels.net/]}}

Chasing Shadows was reissued by Edsel Records in November 2015 as part of a two-CD set which also included the 1990 album Fire on the Moon, which was recorded by the band using the name Dream Command.