Deep (Silent Running album)

Deep was the band's second album for Atlantic Records, following their 1987 album Walk on Fire. With the release of Deep, the band toured extensively but disbanded shortly after, citing a lack of record company support. Both "Deep in the Heart of Nowhere" and "Local Hero" were released as promotional CD singles in the US.[1]

The first four tracks of the album were produced by the band themselves with Frankie LaRocka and Peter Denenberg, who both engineered the album. The rest of the tracks were produced by John Eden, whilst LaRocka and Deneberg remixed the tracks produced by Eden.[2] The album was LaRocka's first attempt at production work, where he also played drums on part of the album. Originally, LaRocka had signed the band while working in the A&R department at Atlantic Records.

Drummer Ian Gault departed the band after the initial recording of Deep in 1988 and was therefore replaced by Gary Kirby. Around the same time, Paul Rocks joined the band on keyboards, and the band finished recording the Deep album in New York.

Prior to Paul Rocks joining, the previous keyboardist Alex White had left the group back in 1985 to work with Joan Armatrading, resulting in the band relying on session musicians such as Adrian Lee (Mike + The Mechanics) and Clive Gates (New Music and Ian Curnow, Talk Talk.[3]

All tracks are original, where the music was written by all three main members of the band; vocalist Peter Gamble, bassist Richard Collett and guitarist Tony Scott, discounting new members Kirby and Rocks, with the lyrics being written solely by vocalist Peter Gamble. Some tracks featured a writing credit to Gault, as they were completed before he left the group.[4]

Deep was released by Atlantic Records in the United States and Europe.[5] The album was made available on all streaming platforms by Warner Music on 23 July 2021.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[6]
Hi-Fi News & Record Review	A:1[7]

Glorydaze Music wrote, "Earlier fans of the band would've turned away after their debut, as both Walk On Fire and Deep are quite some way removed from their original direction moulded in the style of Simple Minds and U2. On the other hand, AORsters and melodic rockers would've welcomed them with open arms."[8]

Silent Running

• Peter Gamble - vocals, producer
• Tony Scott - guitar, producer
• Richard Collett - bass, Producer
• Ian Gault - drums, drum Programming
• Gary Kirby - drums
• Paul Rocks - keyboards

Additional personnel

• John Eden - producer (tracks 5-10)
• Frankie LaRocka - producer, engineer, remixer, drums
• Peter Denenberg - producer, engineer, remixer
• Tom Leinbach - assistant engineer (tracks 1-4)
• Clive Gates - keyboards
• Adrian Lee - keyboards
• Joe Bonadio - percussion
• Steve Sidelnyk - percussion
• Adrian Baker, Amy Fradon, Carole Godden, Leslie Ritter - backing vocals