Always In Between is the second studio album by British singer Jess Glynne, released on 12 October 2018 by Atlantic Records. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and in the top forty of several other countries. It was Glynne's last album with Atlantic.

Background and music Glynne announced Always In Between was to be released on 29 June 2018, along with a world tour of the same name. The album was supported by the UK number-one single "I'll Be There". A pop, dance-pop, and R&B album, it marks Glynne's first studio release in three years since her debut project, I Cry When I Laugh (2015), and the last album from Atlantic Records.

Critical reception

Always In Between received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 60 out of 100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian gave the album two stars out of five, calling it "generic Top 40 and soul-pop finished to a high standard". While noting that the album is "influenced by classic soul, heavy on the blaring brass – not so much Amy Winehouse as her less emotionally wrenching contemporary Joss Stone – and, at the other, undemanding dance-pop topped by an immediately recognisable voice, the same idea that garnered M People vast success 20 years ago", Petridis concluded that "[y]ou can see why people relate to it, you can tell it's going to be huge: it is what pop is in 2018, but the feeling that pop can be something rather more than this is hard to shake." Will Hodgkinson of The Times gave the album the same rating, comparing tracks "No One" and "Broken" and their "teary verses and swelling choruses" to Adele but said the tracks "lack Adele's ability to evoke real feeling". He ultimately called the album "missing any real sense of character or expression." In a more positive review, Maura Johnston, writing for Rolling Stone, said "she’s once again bridging the gap between bouncy pop-EDM and feisty soul, shaking off the malaise that’s struck too many of her playlisted peers in a way that lets Glynne serve as a one-woman rooting crew for herself and, by extension, anyone in need of a peppy pick-me-up" and gave the album three and a half stars.

Commercial performance In the United Kingdom, Always In Between debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 36,500 album-equivalent units during its first week of release, with a total of 24,820 physical sales (67% of overall units). In doing so, she scored her second UK number-one album, while also becoming the first British female artist to achieve a number-one album in the country in 2018.

Track listing

Personnel Credits were adpated from AllMusic.

Jess Glynne – Composer, Primary Artist, Vocals The Amours – Vocals (Background) Amy Stewart – Contractor Andrew Knox Brown – Composer, Drums, Keyboards, Sampling, Producer Angel Williams – Vocals (Background) Anthony Lewis – Percussion Bastian Langebæk – Composer, Drum Programming, Engineer, Guitar, Organ, Piano, Producer, Programmer, Synthesizer Beau Blaise – Engineer Camille Purcell – Composer Cass Lowe – Composer Cathy Thompson – Violin Chris Elliot – Arranger Chris Laws – Drums, Engineer Chris Worsey – Cello Clarence Coffee Jr. – Composer Daniel Pursey – Engineer Danny T – Engineer Dave Daniels – Cello David Emery – Mixing Deborah Widdup – Violin Ed Sheeran – Composer, Guitar Edvard Førre Erfjord – Composer The Electric – Producer, Synthesizer Emlyn Singleton – Violin Everton Nelson – Strings, Violin Fin Dow-Smith – Composer Fred Gibson – Composer, Engineer, Producer Greg Hofmann – Bass Helen Kamminga – Viola Henrik Michelsen – Composer Holly Petrie – Vocals (Background) Ian Burdge – Cello Jack DeBoe – Engineer James Newman – Composer Jamie Scott – Composer Janee Bennett – Composer Jason Sealee – Composer Jeff Gunnell – Engineer Jenny Sacha – Violin Jerker Hansson – Composer Jesse Appiah – Vocals (Background) Jimmy Douglass – Mixing John Hanes – Engineer John Mills – Violin John Paricelli – Guitar John Ryan – Composer, Guitar Jonny Coffer – Bass, Composer, Drums, Guitar, Piano, Producer, Programmer Julian Bunetta – Bass, Composer, Drums, Keyboards, Producer, Programmer Kate Musker – Viola Kate Robinson – Violin Kenji Fenton – Saxophone Kill Dave – Programmer, Programming Liam Nolan – Engineer Louis Bell – Drums, Producer, Synthesizer Magnus Johnston – Violin Marianne Haynes – Violin Mark "Spike" Stent – Mixing Mark Ralph – Mixing, Percussion, Piano, Producer, Synthesizer Martin Hannah – Engineer Martin Humbey – Viola Michael Freeman – Mixing Mike Davis – Flugelhorn Mike Horner – Engineer Natalia Bonner – Violin Nick Cooper – Cello Nick Taylor – Engineer Patrick Kiernan – Violin Paul Burton – Trombone Perry Montague-Mason – Violin Peter Lale – Viola Richard George – Violin Rita Manning – Violin Ross Fortune – Assistant; Engineer Sandy Rivera – Composer Serban Ghenea – Mixing Sophie Cooke – Composer Starsmith – Bass, Drums, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Producer, Synthesizer Steve Mac – Composer, Keyboards, Producer Stuart Hawkes – Mastering Teniola Abosede – Vocals (Background) Toby Gad – Bass, Composer, Engineer, Guitar, Piano, Producer, Programmer Tom Fuller – Assistant, Engineer Yebba – Vocal Arrangement, Vocals (Background)

Charts

Weekly charts + Weekly chart performance Chart (2018) Peak position Japanese Albums (Oricon) 139 Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI) Note: On the chart page, select SK Albums and "201842" on the field besides the word "Zobrazit", and then click over the word to retrieve the correct chart data. 80

Year-end charts + Year-end chart performance Chart Year Position UK Albums (OCC) 2018 14 Irish Albums (IRMA) 2019 27 UK Albums (OCC) 2019 16 UK Albums (OCC) 2020 81

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