CD released July 1st 2002 on the Cockaigne label. Distributed through MGM.
Recorded at the Ponderosa during April to October 2001.
Mixed at St Ives
Produced by Clare Moore and David Graney
All sessions engineered and mixed by Adam Rhodes (except "heroic blues" which was recorded live to minidisc by Adam and "don't mess with the blood" which was recorded at Trueform in Spotswood by Neil in April 2002)

Mastered at DK by Bill Miller.
Artwork and photography by Tony Mahony
All songs written by David Graney

If pushed, I guess I would call it a folk soul kind of record. After our previous two CDs I just wanted to get a collection of songs together that could be laid down at our studio with an acoustic guitar and then built up from there. "The Dave Graney Show" CD (1998) and then "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" (2000) had all been recorded with a lot of Midi / Keyboard tracks. I loved all the sampled textures that were suddenly available with the new hard disc technology. I wanted to get away from all that and make a vague kind of singer /songwriter type record.
I'd always heard that Lou Reed had made "Berlin " in that way, laying down the guitar and vocal and then leaving it to Bob Ezrin to make sense of, this was the vibe I wanted.
We laid all the tracks down in a couple of days. Clare and Adele then played the rhythm tracks. Adele was using a double bass and Clare was laying down some vibraphone. Bill wanted to come in at the end and improvise over all the tracks and Stuart did the same. We hadn't really played any of the tracks live before.
The title track was recorded live to minidisc at a soundcheck in a hotel in Tarwin Lower. It was a kind of drifting interior monologue. A performer talking to himself. The ambience of the empty bar gave the track that extra melancholy dimension. I had shown everybody the chords once the day before and we jammed it out. There are no edits. It starts and finishes like it did that day.

Upon later reflection.....I've always been chasing the sound and attitudes of some Lou Reed albums I was affected by in the 70s, this is one of them. The title track is a long semi spoken piece. Quite aa dark, melancholy album, much like "kiss tomorrow goodbye". We really didn't know how far out on our own we were, though I hinted at it or gueesed it on "eye of the vibe" . Amazing that we could still pull off some sweet moves while working in such a vacuum. Nobody was giving us anything is what I mean. It had terrible reviews - but we've never been bad enough that people who write about music can think they own it. I was getting into the songwriting and letting them dictate the sounds. Quite a reflective album.

Fave lyric " then there was a time of great confusion in the world / I drifted, free from the earths drag / there were no borders / there was no night or day
there was no end in sight / there was only the vast and weightless pull of the time around and ahead - anchors aweigh"

and
"some people you know packed up and flew north / that'd be somethin' / to just get in the van and go
you know / maybe as soon as his leg comes good / the skin graft and the bone
as soon as the physio says its cool and the insurance cheque comes through" (leavin' the Mount)