{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox album | name = Seasons of My Soul | type = Album | artist = Rumer | cover = Seasonsofmysoul.jpg | alt = | released = 1 November 2010 | recorded = 2009–2010 | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop, soul | length = | label = Atlantic | producer = Steve Brown | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Boys Don't Cry | next_year = 2012 | misc = {{Singles | name = Seasons of My Soul | type = studio | single1 = Slow | single1date = 23 August 2010 | single2 = Aretha | single2date = 25 October 2010 | single3 = Am I Forgiven | single3date = 29 April 2011 }} }} {{Album ratings | MC = 85/100<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/seasons-of-my-soul/rumer|title=Reviews for Seasons of My Soul by Rumer|website=Metacritic|access-date=June 1, 2025}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/seasons-of-my-soul-mw0002037138|title=Seasons of My Soul - Rumer|website=AllMusic|last=|first=|date=November 1, 2010|access-date=June 1, 2025}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Evening Standard'' | rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23892690-cds-of-the-week-the-verdict-on-cheryl-coles-new-album.do|title=CDs of the week: The verdict on Cheryl Cole's new album|website=Evening Standard|last=Aizlewood|first=John|date=29 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105003959/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23892690-cds-of-the-week-the-verdict-on-cheryl-coles-new-album.do |access-date=1 June 2025 |archive-date=5 November 2010 }}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Guardian'' | rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/28/rumer-seasons-of-my-soul-review|title=Rumer: seasons of my soul – review|website=The Guardian|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=28 October 2010|access-date=1 June 2025}}</ref> | rev4 = ''The Independent'' | rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-rumer-seasons-of-my-soul-atlantic-2119262.html|title=Album: Rumer, Seasons of My Soul (Atlantic)|website=The Independent|last=Gill|first=Andy|date=29 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101063700/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-rumer-seasons-of-my-soul-atlantic-2119262.html|access-date=1 June 2025|archive-date=1 November 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> | rev5 = ''The Irish Times'' | rev5score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/album-reviews/rumer-1.669978|title=Rumer - Seasons of the Soul Atlantic|newspaper=The Irish Times|last=Clayton-Lea|first=Tony|date=29 October 2010|access-date=1 June 2025}}</ref> | rev6 = ''Mojo'' | rev6score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=ADM>{{cite web|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/2275/Seasons-Of-My-Soul.aspx|title=Rumer - Seasons Of My Soul|website=AnyDecentMusic|access-date=June 1, 2025}}</ref> | rev7 = ''musicOMH'' | rev7score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/rumer-seasons-of-my-soul|title=Rumer – Seasons Of My Soul|website=musicOMH|last=Randell|first=Edward|date=1 November 2010|access-date=1 June 2025}}</ref> | rev8 = ''PopMatters'' | rev8score = 9/10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/155257-rumer-seasons-of-my-soul-2495879431.html|title=Rumer: Seasons of My Soul|website=PopMatters|last=Staff|first=PopMatters|date=30 April 2012|access-date=1 June 2025}}</ref> | rev9 = ''Q'' | rev9score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=ADM/> | rev10 = ''Uncut'' | rev10score = 8/10<ref name=ADM/> }} '''''Seasons of My Soul''''' is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Rumer. It was released on 1 November 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003YM5X1C/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=16WRM932WG4PG7TKF8AZ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i |title=Seasons of My Soul: Rumer: Amazon.co.uk: Music |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |accessdate=20 January 2011}}</ref> The album peaked to number 3 on the UK Albums Chart, it also charted in 11 countries including Australia, New Zealand, France, Sweden and Switzerland.

==Singles== * "Slow" was the first single released from the album, it featured on Smooth FM, and on BBC Radio 2 as a ''record of the week''. It peaked to #16 on the UK Singles Chart and #33 on the Irish Singles Chart. * "Aretha" was the second single, released on 24 October 2010. It peaked at #72 on the UK Singles Chart.

==Background== In an Interview with Robert Copsey of Digital Spy she explained why the album was called "Seasons of My Soul", she said: "Mainly because it took me so long to make the album that I noticed that the songs were coming round again. I'd have these moods in my soul that would come around like seasons over the years and the songs matched the moods. It was like an emotional landscape. There are different shades, different feels and different colours to the album. Some people have been saying that 'Slow' is an autumnal song and so is 'Aretha' in a way."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/interviews/a284696/rumer.html|work=Digital Spy|publisher=digitalspy.co.uk|author=Robert Copsey|title=Rumer Interview|date=29 October 2010 }}</ref>

Meanwhile, in terms of its musical and lyrical influences, Rumer told Pete Lewis, Assistant Editor of Blues & Soul: "I think all the songs have elements of different things that have influenced me, and different MUSIC that's influenced me. Songs like 'Slow' and 'Come To Me High' have little dreamy, Bacharach-type chords and those lilting, gorgeous melodies that remind me of songs that I've heard and loved in films that were written by the fantastic composers from the Thirties like Irving Berlin and Rodgers & Hammerstein. Then 'Take Me As I Am' is very Laura Nyro & LaBelle - soulful with a gospel feel. ("When we did ''Take Me As I Am'', we were listening to the Laura Nyro/Labelle album ''Gonna Take a Miracle''. That was a huge influence on the record. ''New York Tendaberry'' as well." )<ref name=B&S>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/598/rumer_careful_whisper/|title=Rumer: Careful Whisper|author=Lewis, Pete|publisher=Blues & Soul|website=bluesandsoul.com|access-date=2 November 2010|archive-date=24 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224225824/http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/598/rumer_careful_whisper/|url-status=dead}}</ref> While 'Thankful' I think is very Joni Mitchell from her ''Hejira'' phase, where it's like a poem which describes a season in each verse... While lyrically the album is largely just classic autobiographical storytelling." Other influences on the album Rumer has cited are Judee Sill and, " Not necessarily in the songwriting, but in the production", Stephen Bishop.<ref name=B&S />

==Track listing== ;Standard Edition<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/seasons-of-my-soul/id393145436 |title=Seasons of My Soul by Rumer - Download Seasons of My Soul on iTunes |publisher=iTunes |date=23 August 2010 |access-date=20 January 2011}}</ref> {{Track listing | title1 = Am I Forgiven? | writer1 = Sarah Joyce, Steve Brown | extra1 = | length1 = 3:28 | title2 = Come to Me High | writer2 = Joyce | extra2 = | length2 = 2:49 | title3 = Slow | writer3 = Joyce | extra3 = | length3 = 3:32 | title4 = Take Me as I Am | writer4 = Joyce | extra4 = | length4 = 3:45 | title5 = Aretha | writer5 = Joyce, Brown | extra5 = | length5 = 3:15 | title6 = Saving Grace | writer6 = Joyce | extra6 = | length6 = 3:20 | title7 = Thankful | writer7 = Joyce, Brown | extra7 = | length7 = 3:36 | title8 = Healer | writer8 = Greg Churchill, Joyce | extra8 = | length8 = 3:14 | title9 = Blackbird | writer9 = Joyce | extra9 = | length9 = 3:55 | title10 = On My Way Home | writer10 = Joyce | extra10 = | length10 = 4:29 | title11 = Goodbye Girl | writer11 = David Gates | extra11 = | length11 = 3:31

}} {{Track listing | headline = Deluxe version<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/seasons-my-soul-deluxe-version/id393145672 |title=Seasons of My Soul (Deluxe Version) by Rumer - Download Seasons of My Soul (Deluxe Version) on iTunes |publisher=iTunes |date=23 August 2010 |access-date=20 January 2011}}</ref> | title12 = Vertigo | note12 = | length12 = 3:07 | title13 = It Might Be You | note13 = Theme from ''Tootsie'' | writer13 = Alan Bergman, Dave Grusin, Marilyn Bergman | length13 = 3:25 | title14 = Slow | note14 = Music video | writer14 = Joyce | length14 = | title15 = Aretha | note15 = Music video | writer15 = Joyce, Brown | length15 = }} {{Track listing | headline = International version | title12 = Alfie | note12 = | writer12 = Burt Bacharach, Hal David | length12 = 2:52 | title13 = It Might Be You | note13 = Theme from ''Tootsie'' | writer13 = Bergman, Grusin, Bergman | length13 = 3:25 }}

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===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2010–2012) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Australia|35|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Austria|23|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Flanders|6|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Wallonia|11|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Netherlands|2|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Finland|32|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|France|34|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Germany|13|id=145017|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Ireland2|7|artist=Rumer|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Italy|59|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- ! scope="row"| Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/527260/ranking/cd_album/|title=ＲｕｍｅｒのCDアルバムランキング、Ｒｕｍｅｒのプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE|publisher=Oricon.co.jp|accessdate=27 February 2013}}</ref> | 40 |- {{album chart|New Zealand|10|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Norway|6|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Scotland|4|date=20101107|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Spain|59|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Sweden|13|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Switzerland|15|artist=Rumer|album=Seasons of My Soul|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|UK2|3|date=20101107|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |- {{album chart|Billboard200|46|artist=Rumer|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 May 2021}} |} {{col-2}}

===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2010) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| UK Albums (OCC)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/end-of-year-artist-albums-chart/20100110/37502/|title=End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2010|publisher=Official Charts Company|accessdate=3 May 2021}}</ref> | 36 |} {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2011) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=2011&cat=a|title=Jaaroverzichten 2011|publisher=Ultratop|accessdate=3 May 2021}}</ref> | 85 |- ! scope="row"| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=2011&cat=a|title=Jaaroverzichten – Album 2011|website=dutchcharts.nl|accessdate=3 May 2021}}</ref> | 53 |- ! scope="row"| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hitparade.ch/charts/jahreshitparade/2011/alben|title=Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2011|website=hitparade.ch|accessdate=3 May 2021}}</ref> | 74 |- ! scope="row"| UK Albums (OCC)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/end-of-year-artist-albums-chart/20110109/37502/|title=End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2011|publisher=Official Charts Company|accessdate=3 May 2021}}</ref> | 38 |}

===Certifications=== {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Ireland|artist=Rumer|type=album|title=Seasons of My Soul|award=Platinum|relyear=2010|certyear=2011}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Rumer|type=album|title=Seasons of My Soul|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=2010|certyear=2013|certmonth=07|id=8665-2350-2}} {{Certification Table Bottom}} {{col-end}}

==Release history== {|class=wikitable |- !Region !Date !Format !Label !Catalogue |- ||United Kingdom |1 November 2010 |CD, Digital Download ||Atlantic records |B003YM5X1C |}

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