Last Train Home

Last Train Home is the debut studio album by Irish recording artist Kaden Walsh it was released by Prism Records on April 13, 1998. All tracks had been produced, arranged, written and composed by Walsh himself with the main Executive of the album at the time being Michael Davies, the label's owner at the time. Walsh began recording for the album around October of 1997 and wrote around 20 songs for the album.

Last Train Home reached No. 52 on the Billboard 200 Album charts and No. 53 on the UK Charts. The lead single, "Last Train Home" debuted at No. 31 on the UK Singles Charts with the follow up single "Dear Diary" becoming Walsh's Second Top forty hit, reaching No. 28 on the UK Charts.

Production
Walsh started recording in September of 1997 at Backwater Studios. Manager at the time Michael Davies was helping Walsh find what often worked and what didn't work on the album as Executive Producer when compiling it together, often usually leading into fights about what sounded sonically better than one another.

In April of the next year, the basic tracking had been done for a majority of the same tracks including the first lead single. Though Davies often stated that another lead single should've been chosen, Walsh would often state that he knew what he was doing musically as an introduction. The basic instrumentation from the album including Guitars, Vocals, Drums and even Piano were done by Walsh during the time of recording.

On March 4th, the album had been mixed and completed, only leaving it a window of a month for marketing given that the marketing team (two at the time) wanted it to have it as a early launch in the hopes that it would be more successful. Walsh had the design of the album cover and singles in mind before anyone had openly suggested it with Walsh sitting on a box for the track list and him sitting on the floor for the single "Dear Diary". In order to save money, Walsh opted in to use the album cover for the title track.

Singles
"Last Train Home", the singles title track and lead single, broke ground in the UK, Europe and Australia, where it charted at Number 31. The albums second single "Dear Diary" followed in the same path, and became his second Top 40 in the UK, reaching No. 28 for a singular week.

Critical reception
Thomas Walters of BBC Music Magazine gave it one of the highest ratings amongst the bad of reviews, 3 stars. Who wrote "though there's not much charm to the album production wise, you can hear where a young 20 year old Irishman wants to go, but whatever seems to be this album, isn't where it's going to go, if it's nothing but down"

Commercial performance
On release in 1998, Last Train Home debuted at Number 15 on the UK charts, and Number 21 in the US, it was also one of the first albums from the artist to chart in Japan at Number 30. Worldwide, it approximately sold around 800,000 sales in 1998.

Track listing
All songs are written by Walsh, except where noted

Personnel

 * Kaden Walsh - All Vocals, All Instruments, production
 * Michael Davies - Executive producer