Critical reception
The album was met with mostly positive reviews from the Australian music press. Patrick Emery from Beat Magazine noted: "With only minor exception, it’s Bailey in his finest whimsical folk-blues guise. The title track has a whiff of literary pretension, its lyrics a set of seemingly non-sequitur statements built around a simple melody and Bailey’s disaffected vocals. Sweet Chariot is arguably the classic contemporary Saints style – a lumbering blues-based pop lick and an aesthetic that sits perfectly with Bailey’s modern day Lord Byron persona. Million Miles Away (La De Bloody Da) would, if attended to in a brutal punk manner, be one of the great garage rock tracks; here, it’s an intriguing acoustic track of surprising depth. "Track listing
#"King of the Sun" #"A Million Miles Away" #"Sweet Chariot" #"Turn" #"Mystified" #"Duty" #"Road to Oblivion Part 2" #"Craters on the Moon" #"Mini Mantra Part 1" #"Adventures in the Dark Arts of Watermelonery"Bonus Disc "Songs from the Stash"
Also included in the 2012 CD release was a bonus disc called ''Songs from the Stash''. These featured nine songs from the post Ed Kuepper period. #"Just Like Fire Would" (from '' All Fools Day'') #"Last and Laughing Mile" (from ''''King of the Midnight Sun''
In 2014, the album was issued in some territories as a double; the second disc is the same track listing, but all songs have been re-recorded with guitarist Barrington Francis and drummer Peter Wilkinson, who did not appear on the original record.Personnel
* Chris Bailey – vocals, guitar, bass *Sean Carey – guitar, sound engineering *Geoff Watson – drums *Danny Carmichael – trombone *Simon Ferenci – trumpet *John Glase – harmonica *Any Judd – keyboards, piano *Amelia Rutherford – cello *Fortunato Luchresi – producerReferences
{{Authority control The Saints (Australian band) albums 2012 albums Fire Records (UK) albums