Ed Harcourt
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Biography
Edward HarcourtâSmith, born 14â¯Augustâ¯1977 in Wimbledon, London, is an English singerâsongwriter, guitarist, pianist, bassist and drummer. He began piano lessons at nine, achieving gradeâ¯8 by seventeen, and later played in the school band Snug before recording the Maplewood EP in 2000. After signing with Heavenly Records, he released Here Be Monsters in Juneâ¯2001, which peaked at Number 84 on the UK Albums Chart and earned a Mercury Prize nomination that year. From Every Sphere followed in Februaryâ¯2003, reaching Number 39 in the UK and producing the single "All of Your Days Will Be Blessed" at Number 35. Subsequent albums-Strangers (Septemberâ¯2004), The Beautiful Lie (Juneâ¯2006), Lustre (Juneâ¯2010), Back into the Woods (Februaryâ¯2013), Time of Dust (Januaryâ¯2014), Furnaces (Augustâ¯2016), Beyond the End (Novemberâ¯2018), Monochrome to Colour (Septemberâ¯2020), Elâ¯Magnifico (Marchâ¯2024), and Orphic (Novemberâ¯2025)-were released under labels such as Dovecote, Piano Wolf, and CCCLX, with collaborations featuring The Magic Numbers, Graham Coxon, and Gita HarcourtâSmith. He has written for Sophie EllisâBextor, Paloma Faith, and others, and performed with Marianne Faithfull, Patti Smith, and The Libertines. His music has appeared in video games Silent Hill: Downpour and Alan Wakeâs American Nightmare, and the single "The Way That I Live" was featured in a Burberry film in 2014.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Do As I Say Not As I Do
- Here Be Monsters
- You Only Call Me When You're Drunk
- Minotaur
- The Last Cigarette
- Church Of No Religion
- Shadowboxing
- Late Night Partner
- Lachrymosity
- Whirlwind in D Minor
- Something In My Eye
- T Bone Tombstone
- Visit From The Dead Dog
- Fears of a Father
- Haywired
- Surreal Killer
- The Storm Is Coming
- This One's For You
- Born In The '70s
- Loneliness
- The Music Box
- Kids (rise From The Ashes)
- Open Book
- Let Love Not Weigh Me Down
