Eurythmics - In the Garden

Eurythmics' debut album, In the Garden, is the missing link between the work of the Tourists, who included both Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox, and 1983's commercial breakthrough, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). Co-produced by Kraftwerk producer Conny Plank at his studio in Cologne, Germany, it has some of the distant, mechanistic feel of the European electronic music movement, but less of the pop sensibility of later Eurythmics. The chief difference is in Lennox's singing; even when the musical bed is appealing, Lennox floats ethereally over it, and the listener doesn't focus on her. As a result, In the Garden wasn't much of a success, though when Eurythmics streamlined their sound and emphasized Lennox's dominating voice on subsequent releases, they found mass popularity. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Name Credits Annie Lennox Flute, Synthesizer, Vocals, Percussion, Keyboards, ? Clem Burke Drums Conny Plank Producer Dave Stewart Guitar, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Instrumentation, Vocals, Bass, Vocals (Background), Drums, Guitar (Bass) Eurythmics Producer Holger Czukay French Horn, Brass, Horn, ? Jaki Liebezeit Horn, Brass, Drums Konrad Plank Producer Krista Fast Laughs, Vocals (Background) Laurence Stevens Design Markus Stockhausen Horn, Brass Pete Ashworth Photography Robert Görl Drums Rocking Russian Design Roger Pomphrey Vocals (Background), Guitar, Shouts Tim Wheater Saxophone