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Seal IV
Studio album by Seal
Released	9 September 2003
Studio	Sarm West Studios, Sarm Hook End, Angel Recording Studios and Phoenix Studios (London, UK)
Genre	Soul pop
Length	50:57
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Trevor Horn Mark Batson Seal (exec.) Jill Sinclair (exec.)
Seal chronology
Togetherland (Unreleased) Seal IV (2003) Best 1991–2004 (2004)
Singles from Seal IV
"Get It Together" Released: 16 December 2002 "Love's Divine" Released: 8 May 2003 "Waiting for You" Released: 5 November 2003

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	56/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Blender
Entertainment Weekly	C
PopMatters
Q
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Sputnikmusic	3.5/5
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Seal IV is the fourth studio album by Seal. It follows the aborted sessions for Togetherland, which was scrapped because Seal thought it was not up to the standard of his previous work.

In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number four. In the United States, it debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, making it his highest-charting album to date.

Track listing

Notes

• signifies a co-producer
• signifies additional production and remix

Personnel

• Seal – vocals, keyboards (2, 6, 9), bass (4, 9-11), guitars (9, 11)
• Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards (1-12), bass (3, 10), acoustic piano (9, 10)
• Mark Batson – keyboards (1-3, 7-9, 12), acoustic piano (2, 5), bass (2, 3, 6-9), drum programming (3, 6, 7), organ (6)
• Pete Murray – keyboards (1, 5, 12), acoustic piano (2, 5)
• Trevor Horn – acoustic piano (4), guitars (4-6), keyboards (6), bass (5), extra bass (6)
• Carlos Rios – keyboards (11)
• Chris Bruce – guitars (1-4, 6-8, 10, 12), bass (1, 12)
• Tim Cansfield – guitars (1, 2, 5, 12)
• Gus Isidore – guitars (1-3, 7, 10, 12)
• Tim Pierce – guitars (3, 4)
• Alan Griffiths – guitars (10), drum programming (10)
• Steven Shane McDonald – guitars (11)
• Heitor Pereira – guitars (11)
• Earl Harvin – drums (1, 3, 4, 7-10, 12)
• Ian Thomas – drums (2, 5)
• Charlie Russell – drum programming (6)
• Luís Jardim – percussion (1-12)
• Nick Ingman – string arrangements (1, 2, 6, 7, 9-12), choir arrangements (1, 2, 12), orchestral arrangements (5)
• Steve Sidwell – horn and choir arrangements (3), string arrangements (3, 8)
• Gavyn Wright – string leader (1-3, 5-12)
• Tessa Niles – additional backing vocals (1, 12)

Production

• Jeff Aldrich – A&R
• Seal – executive producer, liner notes
• Jill Sinclair – executive producer
• Robert Orton – engineer (1-12), mixing (1-12)
• Tim Weidner – engineer (1-12), mixing (1-12)
• Steve Price – string recording (1-12), choir recording (1-3), horn recording (3), orchestra recording (5)
• Tim Lambert – assistant engineer (1-12), additional engineer (1, 3, 4, 10)
• Phil Tyreman – assistant engineer (1-12)
• Dan Vickers – additional engineer (4)
• Deepsky – remixing (13)
• Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff – creative director
• Jeri Heiden – art direction
• Glen Nakasako – design
• Robert Maxwell – cover photography
• Sacha Waldman – inside photography
• Irving Azoff, John Baruck, Tom Consolo and Susan Markheim – management

Charts

Certifications

References

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2. Allmusic review
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4. PopMatters review
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External links

• Seal IV at Metacritic

• 2003 albums
• Seal (musician) albums
• Albums produced by Trevor Horn
• Warner Records albums