One Cell in the Sea is the first studio album by A Fine Frenzy, the stage name of American singer-songwriter Alison Sudol, released under Virgin Records on July 17, 2007. The album debuted at #158 on the Billboard 200 and later peaked at #91. Sudol made a demo tape consisting of songs on One Cell in the Sea, which eventually fell into the hands of the CEO of Virgin Records. After listening to the tape, the CEO flew to Sudol's mother's home in Los Angeles to listen to her play. According to Sudol, he responded most positively to "Rangers," a track she considers "obscure and weird," so she found the label to be understanding. The album title comes from a lyric in "The Minnow and the Trout" because Sudol felt the phrase "summed up everything." During a March 2008 interview with The Ledger, she stated the following of the title: It's the beginning of something, it's the loneliness that I felt when I was making this album, because a lot of the writing of it was done late at night when everyone else was out doing their own thing. I wouldn't have wanted to be out, but it was a feeling of everybody being someone else, and you're lonely. And also it's the unity that we all have from basic human emotions and we all came from somewhere, so we're all connected. And that's how I tied everything together One Cell in the Sea is the first studio album by A Fine Frenzy, the stage name of American singer-songwriter Alison Sudol, released under Virgin Records on July 17, 2007. The album debuted at #158 on the Billboard 200 and later peaked at #91. Sudol made a demo tape consisting of songs on One Cell in the Sea, which eventually fell into the hands of the CEO of Virgin Records. After listening to the tape, the CEO flew to Sudol's mother's home in Los Angeles to listen to her play. According to Sudol, he responded most positively to "Rangers," a track she considers "obscure and weird," so she found the label to be understanding. The album title comes from a lyric in "The Minnow and the Trout" because Sudol felt the phrase "summed up everything." During a March 2008 interview with The Ledger, she stated the following of the title: It's the beginning of something, it's the loneliness that I felt when I was making this album, because a lot of the writing of it was done late at night when everyone else was out doing their own thing. I wouldn't have wanted to be out, but it was a feeling of everybody being someone else, and you're lonely. And also it's the unity that we all have from basic human emotions and we all came from somewhere, so we're all connected. And that's how I tied everything together false 2025-11-07 17:32:45 One Cell in the Sea 2007 2007-07-17 2007-07-17 62 Folk Rock Indie Folk Indie Pop Indie Rock Industrial Pop Pop Rock Rock 116457 2142663 b99b1204-fe1b-4ce8-97d5-24ae16f79207 ccd4426f-aef3-48e3-b04e-2e1de3d1f8d6 d2817b56-a9fd-3554-94ae-3c92e65431ad /media/data/media8/Music/A Fine Frenzy/One Cell in the Sea/folder.jpg A Fine Frenzy A Fine Frenzy 1 1 Come On, Come Out 03:35 1 2 The Minnow & the Trout 04:28 1 3 Whisper 04:56 1 4 You Picked Me 04:23 1 5 Rangers 04:33 1 6 Almost Lover 04:28 1 7 Think of You 04:05 1 8 Ashes and Wine 04:20 1 9 Liar, Liar 05:55 1 10 Last of Days 04:12 1 11 Lifesize 03:44 1 12 Near to You 04:35 1 13 Hope for the Hopeless 04:17 1 14 Borrowed Time 04:13 Alison Sudol (born December 23, 1984) is an American actress, singer, songwriter and music video director. She is known as the singer A Fine Frenzy, and for her role as Queenie Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), as well as its sequels The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Her music has been featured in numerous television shows and movies.