Oceans Apart

Oceans Apart
Studio album by The Go-Betweens
Released 3 May 2005
Recorded November 2004 – January 2005
Genre Rock
Length 65:04
Label LO-MAX Records
EMI
Producer Mark Wallis & Dave Ruffy
The Go-Betweens chronology
Bright Yellow Bright Orange
(2003)Bright Yellow Bright Orange2003		 Oceans Apart
(2005)		 Quiet Heart
(2012)Quiet Heart2012
Singles from Oceans Apart
  1. "Here Comes a City"
    Released: 23 May 2005
  2. "Finding You"
    Released: 25 July 2005
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Guardian[2]
Pitchfork Media7.0/10[3]
Uncut[4]
Village VoiceA[5]

Oceans Apart is the ninth and final studio album by The Go-Betweens, released in 2005. All the songs were written by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster. The album was recorded at the Good Luck Studios in London between November 2004 through to January 2005, except for "Boundary Rider" which was recorded at The White Room Recording Studio in Brisbane.

Details

The live recordings on the bonus disc were recorded at The Barbican Concert Hall, London on 27 June 2004.

The album won the 2005 "Adult Contemporary Album" award at the 2005 ARIA music awards.

Many reviews and fans complained of the aggressively loud and distorted mastering of the initial release by Jon Astley to the extent that Lo-Max offered to exchange the original pressing for a newer release where the problem is less evident.

Forster later claimed "Darlinghurst Nights" was the song he was most pleased with writing throughout his career. He said "I loved writing the lyric, and I could just get all these people in - Frank Brunetti, who used to be in Died Pretty and was a music journalist on RAM; Clinton Walker is in it. It's a song that no-one else could have written but me - for better or worse."[6]

McLennan said, "We didn't want to be on the outer ripples of the pond anymore. We wanted to jump back into the maelstrom – London, just the energy, the competition of the place. We've made enough records and have listened to enough records by other people that we know this is a fucking good one."[7]


Track listing

  1. "Here Comes a City" – 3:25
  2. "Finding You" – 4:02
  3. "Born to a Family" – 3:08
  4. "No Reason to Cry" – 3:53
  5. "Boundary Rider" – 2:45
  6. "Darlinghurst Nights" – 6:18
  7. "Lavender" – 3:09
  8. "The Statue" – 4:25
  9. "This Night's for You" – 4:25
  10. "The Mountains Near Dellray" – 3:28

Bonus disc

  1. "People Say" (Live) – 3:31
  2. "He Lives My Life" (Live) – 4:03
  3. "The Wrong Road" (Live) – 5:17
  4. "Bye Bye Pride" (Live) – 4:54
  5. "When People Are Dead" (Live) – 4:45
  6. "Streets of Your Town" (Live) – 3:36

Personnel

Go-Betweens

  • Robert Forster – vocals, guitars, piano, organ
  • Grant McLennan – vocals, guitars
  • Adele Pickvance – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Glenn Thompson – drums, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals

Additional musicians

  • Tom Rees-Roberts – flugelhorn
  • Trevor Miles – trombone
  • David Powell – tuba
  • Duncan Lamont – clarinet
  • Dave Ruffy – keyboards, percussion

References

  1. ↑ Jurek, Thom. Oceans Apart at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Petridis, Alex (14 April 2005). "The Go-Betweens, Oceans Apart". Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Moerder, Adam (16 May 2005). "The Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart | Album Reviews". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  4. ↑ Trousse, Stephen. "The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart". uncut.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Christgau, Robert (3 May 2005). "Beguilement and Rage". Village Voice. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  6. ↑ Cameron Emerson-Elliott (November 2015). "My Soundtrack". Rolling Stone Australia. No. 768. Paper Riot Pty Ltd. pp. 38–39.
  7. ↑ Fred Mills. "The Go-Betweens: Their Back Pages". Rock's Backpages.
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