# Fatal Mistakes

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Fatal Mistakes
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Del Amitri](/source/Del_Amitri)
| cover      = Del Amitri - Fatal Mistakes.png
| alt        =
| released   = 28 May 2021
| recorded   = March 2020
| studio     = Vada Studios, [Warwickshire](/source/Warwickshire)
| genre      = [Rock](/source/Rock_music)
| length     = 45:52
| label      = [Cooking Vinyl](/source/Cooking_Vinyl)
| producer   = [Dan Austin](/source/Dan_Austin)
| prev_title = [Can You Do Me Good?](/source/Can_You_Do_Me_Good%3F)
| prev_year  = 2002
| next_title =
| next_year  =
| misc        = {{Singles
 | name        = Fatal Mistakes
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Close Your Eyes and Think of England
 | single1date = November 2020<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.v2benelux.com/news-represented-labels/del-amitris-new-album-fatal-mistakes-to-be-released-april-30th-22699|title=Del Amitri's new album 'Fatal Mistakes' to be released April 30th |work=[V2](/source/V2_Records)|date=16 November 2020|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref> 
 | single2     = It's Feelings
 | single2date = February 2021<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latebar.org/2021/03/04/del-amitri-to-push-release-of-2021-album/|title=Del Amitri to push release of 2021 album|work=latebar.org|last=Ley|first=Ken|date=4 March 2021|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref> 
 | single3     = You Can't Go Back
 | single3date = April 2021<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.totalntertainment.com/music/you-cant-go-back-the-new-single-from-del-amitri/|title='You Can't Go Back' the new single from Del Amitri|work=TotalNtertainment|date=30 April 2021|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref> 
 | single4     = All Hail Blind Love
 | single4date = August 2021<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/fm/album/all-hail-blind-love-single-version/1579922001|title=All Hail Blind Love (Single Version)|work=music.apple.com|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref> 
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| width = 22.4em
| MC = 82/100<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/fatal-mistakes/del-amitri|title=Fatal Mistakes by Del Amitri Reviews and Tracks|publisher=[Metacritic](/source/Metacritic)|access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>
| rev1 = ''[American Songwriter](/source/American_Songwriter)''
| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/fatal-mistakes-del-amitri-album-review/|title=Review: Del Amitri Avoided Making 'Fatal Mistakes' On New Album|work=[American Songwriter](/source/American_Songwriter)|last=Zimmerman|first=Lee|date=28 April 2021|access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[Classic Rock](/source/Classic_Rock_(magazine))''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 2021 |title= ''Classic Rock'' magazine review|url= |magazine=[Classic Rock](/source/Classic_Rock_(magazine)) |page=80}}</ref>
| rev3 = Hooks and Harmony
| rev3score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hooksandharmony.com/fatal-mistakes-del-amitri-album-review/|title=Fatal Mistakes – Del Amitri (Album Review)|work=Hooks and Harmony|last=Lee|first=Peter|date=30 May 2021|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''Maximum Volume Music''
| rev4score = 9/10<ref>{{cite news|url=https://maximumvolumemusic.com/review-del-amitri-fatal-mistakes-2021/|title=Review: Del Amitri – Fatal Mistakes (2021)|work=Maximum Volume Music|last=Thorley|first=Andy|date=13 June 2021|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[Mojo](/source/Mojo_(magazine))''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Farber |first=Jim |date=June 2021 |title= ''Mojo'' magazine review|url= |magazine=[Mojo](/source/Mojo_(magazine)) |page=87}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''Outline''
| rev6score = 10/10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlineonline.co.uk/content/del-amitri-fatal-mistakes/album-reviews/121384/2485|title=Del Amitri - Fatal Mistakes|work=Outline|last=Seymour|first=Jon|date=28 May 2021|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[The Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/fatal-mistakes-del-amitri-return-vicious-beery-rock-music-yesteryear/|title=On Fatal Mistakes, Del Amitri return to the vicious, beery rock music of yesteryear|work=[The Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)|last=McCormick|first=Neil|date=27 May 2021|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref>
}}
'''''Fatal Mistakes''''' is the seventh studio album by the Scottish band [Del Amitri](/source/Del_Amitri), released on 28 May 2021.<ref>[https://www.delamitri.info/fatal-mistakes-new-release-date Official Del Amitri website] Fatal Mistakes New Release Date.</ref> It is the band's first studio album since 2002's ''[Can You Do Me Good](/source/Can_You_Do_Me_Good%3F).'' It debuted at number five on the [UK Albums Chart](/source/UK_Albums_Chart) in the first week following its release.<ref name="UKcharts" />

== Background ==
Del Amitri reformed in 2014 after a ten year hiatus. Initially the band thought that fans did not want unreleased material, choosing to play only previously released songs during the 2014 tour. Singer [Justin Currie](/source/Justin_Currie) was hesitant to release an album of new songs saying "we thought that's probably not what anyone is going to want to listen to".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-26|title=Del Amitri head to Essex - but Justin Currie thought new album was a 'stupid' idea|url=https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/del-amitri-tour-is-heading-for-essex-but-singer-justin-currie-thought-new-album-was-a-stupid-idea/|access-date=2021-06-05|website=InYourArea.co.uk}}</ref>

By 2018, Currie and guitarist [Iain Harvie](/source/Iain_Harvie) had created finished songs that sounded "very Del Amitri".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-02-20|title=Del Amitri roll back the years with new single It's Feelings ahead of first album in 19 years {{!}}|url=https://ipamusic.co.uk/?p=5512|access-date=2021-06-05|language=en-GB}}</ref> The two reformed the band with the lineup featured on 2014's live release ''Into the Mirror: Del Amitri in Concert,'' with keyboardist Andy Alston, guitarist [Kris Dollimore](/source/Kris_Dollimore) and drummer [Ash Soan](/source/Ash_Soan).

''Fatal Mistakes'' was recorded in March 2020 over a three-week period, with Del Amitri completing the sessions the day before the [UK locked down](/source/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom) due to the [COVID-19 pandemic](/source/COVID-19_pandemic).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Del Amitri Announce New Album 'Fatal Mistakes' {{!}} mxdwn.co.uk|url=http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/del-amitri-announce-new-album-fatal-mistakes/|access-date=2021-06-05|language=en-US}}</ref> Initially scheduled for release on 30 April 2021, the release date was moved to 28 May 2021 because of pandemic-related production delays.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/delamitri/status/1370313707985760256|title=Due to unavoidable issues regarding production relating to the pandemic, Del Amitri's new album 'Fatal Mistakes' has been moved to May 28th 2021. |access-date=2021-06-05|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref>

== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [Justin Currie](/source/Justin_Currie), except where noted
| title1 = You Can't Go Back
| length1 = 2:53
| title2 = All Hail Blind Love
| writer2 = {{hlist|Currie|[Iain Harvie](/source/Iain_Harvie)}}
| length2 = 4:04
| title3 = Musicians and Beer
| length3 = 2:46
| title4 = Close Your Eyes and Think of England
| length4 = 3:30
| title5 = Losing the Will to Die
| length5 = 2:34
| title6 = Otherwise
| length6 = 3:01
| title7 = It's Feelings
| writer7 = {{hlist|Currie|Harvie}}
| length7 = 2:42   
| title8 = I'm So Scared of Dying
| length8 = 4:27
| title9 = Mockingbird, Copy Me Now
| writer9 = {{hlist|Currie|[Kris Dollimore](/source/Kris_Dollimore)}}
| length9 = 2:23
| title10 = Missing Person
| length10 = 3:19
| title11 = Second Staircase
| length11 = 3:00
| title12 = Lonely
| writer12 = {{hlist|Currie|Harvie}}
| length12 = 3:28
| title13 = Nation of Caners
| length13 = 7:39
}}

== ''Fatal Mistakes – Outtakes and B-Sides'' ==
A five-track bonus CD titled ''Fatal Mistakes – Outtakes and B-Sides'' was initially available for a limited period as a companion piece to ''Fatal Mistakes'' on 28 May 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.v2benelux.com/news-represented-labels/del-amitris-new-album-fatal-mistakes-out-today-23064|title=Del Amitri's new album Fatal Mistakes out today|work=[V2](/source/V2_Records)|date=28 May 2021 |access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref> It was reissued with five additional tracks on 12 August 2022.<ref name="Townsend">{{cite web|url=https://delamitri.tmstor.es/product/87174|title=Del Amitri - Fatal Mistakes|work=Townsend Music|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref>

"When Cooking Vinyl asked us to supply material for a bonus CD to go with the various ''Fatal Mistakes'' packages, we seized the chance to resurrect the B-Side. We knew we had at least ten tunes written for the album that didn't make it into the final sequence," Del Amitri said in a press release. Two of the tracks, "Lips of London" and "Gone in a Second," were recorded during the March 2020 album session, while the rest were written for the project and recorded remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown of winter 2021.<ref name="Townsend"/>

===Track listing===
{{Track listing
| headline = Original 2021 five-track release
| all_writing = Justin Currie, except where noted
| title1 = Happiness Is It
| length1 = 2:11
| title2 = Gone in a Second
| writer2 = {{hlist|Currie|Harvie}}
| length2 = 4:06
| title3 = Shame
| length3 = 3:46
| title4 = O My Lazy Baby
| length4 = 2:43
| title5 = Some Mothers Do Have Them
| length5 = 2:11
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = 2022 ten-track reissue
| title1 = Lips of London
| length1 = 3:49
| title2 = Gone in a Second
| writer2 = {{hlist|Currie|Harvie}}
| length2 = 4:06
| title3 = Shame
| length3 = 3:46
| title4 = Your Love (Is Killing Me)
| length4 = 3:39
| title5 = This City Loves You Back
| writer5 = {{hlist|Currie|Harvie}}
| length5 = 4:11
| title6 = Some Mothers Do Have Them
| length6 = 2:11
| title7 = Happiness Is It
| length7 = 2:11
| title8 = O My Lazy Baby
| length8 = 2:43
| title9 = My Adulthood
| length9 = 3:02
| title10 = At the End of the Lightning
| length10 = 3:50
}}

==Personnel==
Credits adapted from the album liner notes.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Fatal Mistakes |others=[Del Amitri](/source/Del_Amitri) |date=2021|publisher=[Cooking Vinyl](/source/Cooking_Vinyl)}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Fatal Mistakes – Outtakes and B-Sides |others=[Del Amitri](/source/Del_Amitri) |date=2022|publisher=[Cooking Vinyl](/source/Cooking_Vinyl)}}</ref>
;Del Amitri
*Andy Alston
*[Justin Currie](/source/Justin_Currie)
*[Kris Dollimore](/source/Kris_Dollimore)
*[Iain Harvie](/source/Iain_Harvie)
*[Ash Soan](/source/Ash_Soan)
;Technical
*[Dan Austin](/source/Dan_Austin) – producer, mixing
*[The Groovey Tubes](/source/Del_Amitri) – producer (''Fatal Mistakes – Outtakes and B-Sides'', except "Gone in A Second" and "Lips of London")
*[Paul McGeechan](/source/Love_and_Money_(band)) – mastering
*Gary Birchard – photography

== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Chart performance for ''Fatal Mistakes''
! scope="col"| Chart (2021)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Germany|34|id=478992|artist=Del Amitri|album=Fatal Mistakes|rowheader=true|access-date=4 June 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Scotland|2|date=20210604|rowheader=true|access-date=5 June 2021}}
|-
! scope="row"| Swedish Physical Albums ([Sverigetopplistan](/source/Sverigetopplistan))<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/234?dspy=2021&dspp=22|title=Veckolista Album Fysiskt, vecka 22|publisher=[Sverigetopplistan](/source/Sverigetopplistan)|language=sv|access-date=5 June 2021}}</ref>
| 9
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|20|artist=Del Amitri|album=Fatal Mistakes|rowheader=true|access-date=6 June 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|UK2|5|date=20210604|rowheader=true|access-date=4 June 2021|refname="UKcharts"}}
|-
{{album chart|UKIndependent|2|date=20210604|rowheader=true|access-date=4 June 2021}}
|}

== References ==
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