Come from Heaven

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/come-from-heaven-mw0000029594|title=Come from Heaven – Alpha|work=AllMusic|first=Ned|last=Raggett|accessdate=19 August 2017}}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2score = B+{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1997/11/21/come-heaven/|title=Come From Heaven|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=Rob|last=Brunner|date=21 November 1997|accessdate=25 February 2019}}

| rev3 = NME

| rev3score = 7/10{{cite journal|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101001258reviews.html|title=Alpha – Come From Heaven|journal=NME|first=Mike|last=Goldsmith|date=20 September 1997|accessdate=25 February 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817225016/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101001258reviews.html|archivedate=17 August 2000|url-status=dead}}

| rev4 = Pitchfork

| rev4score = 7.1/10{{cite web|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/alpha/come-from-heaven.shtml|title=Alpha: Come from Heaven|work=Pitchfork|first=Ryan|last=Schreiber|year=1997|accessdate=25 February 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051031172337/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/alpha/come-from-heaven.shtml|archivedate=31 October 2005|url-status=dead}}

| rev5 = Spin

| rev5score = 8/10{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2WTdKc_Gu54C&pg=PA132|title=Alpha: Come from Heaven / Mono: Formica Soul|journal=Spin|volume=14|issue=3|first=Jeff|last=Salamon|date=March 1998|accessdate=25 February 2019|pages=132–134}}

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Ned Raggett of AllMusic described the album as "a gently queasy blend of sounds and styles that manages to be tasteful and downright romantic without being airbrushed soul." He wrote: "When the duo fully stretches its collage/sampling muscles, as on the title track, it can be quite breathtaking, a careful balance between chaos and atmospherics."

Larry Flick of Billboard stated that the album "combines the sample-happy experimental sound of the electronic underground with traditional pop sounds."{{cite magazine|title=Fall Releases Keep Clubland Coming Back For More|magazine=Billboard|first=Larry|last=Flick|date=25 October 1997|page=43}} Randall Roberts of CMJ New Music Monthly called it "slow, deep, sexy nighttime music, so richly recorded and alive with pleasure that only the extremely sexually repressed could not feel it down there."{{cite journal|title=Best New Music|journal=CMJ New Music Monthly|first=Randall|last=Roberts|date=December 1997|page=14}}

{{Track listing

| title1 = My Things

| writer1 = Dingley, Jenks

| length1 = 4:09

| title2 = Rain

| writer2 = Dingley, Jenks, Stubbs

| length2 = 5:07

| title3 = Sometime Later

| writer3 = Dingley, Jenks, Barnard

| length3 = 7:01

| title4 = Delaney

| writer4 = Dingley, Jenks, Barnard, White

| length4 = 4:55

| title5 = Hazeldub

| writer5 = Dingley, Jenks

| length5 = 5:46

| title6 = Slim

| writer6 = Dingley, Jenks, White

| length6 = 5:51

| title7 = Come from Heaven

| writer7 = Dingley, Jenks

| length7 = 2:14

| title8 = Back

| writer8 = Dingley, Jenks, Barnard

| length8 = 5:02

| title9 = Nyquil

| writer9 = Dingley, Jenks, Stubbs

| length9 = 6:55

| title10 = Apple Orange

| writer10 = Dingley, Jenks

| length10 = 6:11

| title11 = With

| writer11 = Dingley, Jenks, White

| length11 = 3:31

| title12 = Firefly

| writer12 = Dingley, Jenks, Barnard

| length12 = 4:46

| title13 = Somewhere Not Here

| writer13 = Dingley, Jenks, Stubbs

| length13 = 7:18

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; Samples

• "The April Fools" by Percy Faith on My Things
• "What the World Needs Now Is Love" by Burt Bacharach on Rain
• "My Autumn's Done Come" (uncredited) by Lee Hazlewood on Sometime Later and Somewhere Not Here
• "Delaney Takes a Break" by Michel Legrand on Delaney
• "Not the Lovin' Kind" by Lee Hazlewood and "Who Needs Forever" by Astrud Gilberto (both uncredited) on Hazeldub
• "Plus Fort Que Nous" by Francis Lai and "Summertime" by Memphis Slim on Slim
• "A House Is Not a Home" by Ronnie Carroll and "The Ghost's Leavetaking" by Sylvia Plath on Back
• "The Hour of Enchantment" by Ron Moody and "The Windmills of Your Mind" by Dusty Springfield on Nyquil
• "Courtyard" by Bobbie Gentry on With
• "Save the Sunlight" by Herb Alpert and Lani Hall on Firefly

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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• Corin Dingley – production, photography
• Andy Jenks – production, photography
• Wendy Stubbs – vocals (2, 9, 13)
• Martin Barnard – vocals (3, 4, 8, 12)
• Helen White – vocals (4, 6, 11)
• Donald Skinner – instrumentation on additional loops
• Alex Lee – instrumentation on additional loops
• Angelo Bruschini – instrumentation on additional loops
• Daniel Jones – strings score
• Gavin Wright – strings conducting
• Paul Hicks – strings overdub engineering
• Alex Scannell – strings overdub engineering assistance
• Andy Bradfield – mixing
• Ben Findlay – mixing assistance, additional overdub engineering
• Jacquie Turner – mixing assistance, additional overdub engineering
• Russell Kearney – mixing assistance, additional overdub engineering
• Marco Migliari – mixing assistance
• Justin Griffith – mixing assistance
• Emma Jones – mixing assistance
• Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
• Stephen Male – art direction
• Latifah Cornelius – design
• Jack Webb – photography
• Donald Christie – photography

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{{Reflist}}

• {{cite journal|title=Alpha: Melancholy, With A Twist|journal=CMJ New Music Monthly|first=Chris|last=Nickson|date=January 1998|page=9}}

• {{Discogs master|55646|Come from Heaven}}

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Category:1997 debut albums

Category:Alpha (band) albums

Category:Melankolic albums