| Out of My Hands | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Morten Harket |
| Cover: | Morten Harket - Out Of My Hands.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Recorded: | Norway (Ljunggren Studio, Snowdrop Studios) England (Real World Studios) Sweden (Studio Brun, Quant Studios) |
| Genre: | Synthpop, pop rock |
| Length: | 37:44 |
| Label: | Universal, Island, We Love Music |
| Producer: | Morten Harket, Lars Hustoft, Peter Kvint, Erik Ljunggren, Steve Osborne, Jonas Quant |
| Prev Title: | Letter from Egypt |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
| Next Title: | Brother |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
Out of My Hands is the fifth studio album and third English-language album by Norwegian pop singer Morten Harket. It was released on April 13, 2012 through Island Records.[1] The album was mainly produced by British record producer Steve Osborne, who worked with a-ha on their ninth studio album, Foot of the Mountain (2009). The album charted at number one in Norway, becoming the singer's third number-one album there.
Nick Levine of the BBC gave the album a favourable review, and wrote: "There's a similar dignity to Morten Harket's first solo album since the split. It's a grown-up synth-pop affair featuring songs that vary in pace all the way from a fairly slow mid-tempo to, ooh, a fairly fast mid-tempo. Actually, Out of My Hands doesn't sound too different from the last few a-ha albums, but it's also fresh enough to recall Echoes, Will Young's stellar electro-pop LP from last year."[2]
In his review for Daily Express, Simon Gage gave the album three out of five stars writing, "The famous falsetto is still very much in evidence and the songs strong if a little on the dated side with driving guitars and lush orchestrations making it sound remarkably a-ha-esque."[3]
| Chart (2012) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Austrian Albums Chart[4] | 30 | |
| Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[5] | 90 | |
| Dutch Albums Chart[6] | 77 | |
| French Albums Chart | 29 | |
| German Albums Chart[7] | 3 | |
| Norwegian Albums Chart[8] | 1 | |
| Russian Albums Chart | 18 | |
| Swiss Albums Chart[9] | 23 | |
| UK Albums Chart[10] | 37 |
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria[11] | April 13, 2012 | CD, digital download | Universal Music Group, Island Records, We Love Music |
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| Germany | |||
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| Switzerland | |||
| United Kingdom[12] | May 14, 2012 | Wrasse Records |