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The Fidelity Wars is the second full-length album by British indie rock band Hefner. Recorded in London over a period of twelve days at Roundhouse Studios, it was released in 1999 on Too Pure. It was the first Hefner album to feature Jack Hayter, and Gina Birch also guests on vocals. The album peaked at #28 in the UK Independent Albums Chart, and "I Took Her Love for Granted" reached #99 in the UK Singles Chart. In the Independent Singles Chart, they placed at #15 and #25 with "The Hymn for the Cigarettes" and "I Took Her Love for Granted," respectively. Four songs on the album appeared in John Peel's BBC Radio 1 Festive Fifty for 1999, with "The Hymn for the Cigarettes" at #2, "The Hymn for the Alcohol" #3, "I Stole a Bride" at #22 and "I Took Her Love for Granted" at #35. "The Hymn for the Things We Didn't Do" from The Hefner Heart EP also charted at #49, giving them five overall placements that year. The Fidelity Wars was reissued on a two disc set with The Hefner Heart EP, b-sdes, and other material, by lead singer Darren Hayman in 2008. It received a 20th anniversary repress in 2018. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fid...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
