Love Always (Shane Filan album)
Background and recording
Background and recording
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On 3 February 2017, Filan posted a picture on his [Instagram](/wiki/Instagram "Instagram") account that he was recording for his third album. Recording sessions for the album took place in Metrophonic Studios in [London](/wiki/London "London"). On 9 February, he asked his fans on [Twitter](/wiki/Twitter "Twitter") to pick their favorite love songs to be added to the album and have their names in the album credits. On 7 April, he posted a picture that he finished recording the album.

The album contained both original material and mostly covers of famous love songs. In an interview with *[Shropshire Star](/wiki/Shropshire_Star "Shropshire Star")*, Filan stated "This new album is full of songs people already know – 75 per cent of them are famous songs and there's new original songs as well. There's a good mix of different styles of ballads. The famous songs, I wanted to do my version of them." He also said that the album took a few months to put together and though he already finished recording the album, he may still have one more song to record before it is released. The album is expected to be released in summer 2017\.

In an interview with *[The List](/wiki/The_List_%28magazine%29 "The List (magazine)")*, he stated "This is an album I have been wanting to make for a long time, I love singing ballads and this album is full of some of my all\-time favourite songs as well as some fan choices such as [the Bangles](/wiki/The_Bangles "The Bangles") hit "[Eternal Flame](/wiki/Eternal_Flame_%28song%29 "Eternal Flame (song)")" which I had never thought about covering but loved recording, to one of my own personal favourites [Bryan Adams](/wiki/Bryan_Adams "Bryan Adams")' "Heaven"."

On 28 June, during a Q\&A session on his [Facebook](/wiki/Facebook "Facebook") and Instagram account, he stated that the album took him six, seven months to finish recording, longer than his previous album. He also revealed three original songs featured in the album, "Crazy Over You", "Eyes Don't Lie" and "Completely", in collaboration with [Paul Barry](/wiki/Paul_Barry_%28songwriter%29 "Paul Barry (songwriter)") and Patrick Mascall, who also co\-wrote songs from Filan's debut album *[You and Me](/wiki/You_and_Me_%28Shane_Filan_album%29 "You and Me (Shane Filan album)")*.

On 5 July, he reportedly signed to Absolute, which provides label services including distribution, marketing and project management. Fraser Earley, senior label manager of Absolute and also a coordinator for the album release stated, "We’re delighted that Shane has turned to Absolute to support his latest solo record. He's had a phenomenal career, both with Westlife and as a solo star, and remains as ambitious as ever. With a large, loyal fanbase always eager to hear more from Shane, he's in a position to do things on his own terms. It’s a privilege to power his independence and continued solo success."

On 20 August, Filan talked about the production of the love songs covers album during a Q\&A session. He and [Louis Walsh](/wiki/Louis_Walsh "Louis Walsh") had been talking about recording an album of love songs for few years and he felt it was the right time to do it. He also stated that he may consider to do another love songs album in the future.


Who collaborated with Shane Filan on some of the songs?