''Oceans Apart'' is the ninth and final studio album by

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, released in 2005. All the songs were written by

Grant McLennan Grant William McLennan (12 February 19586 May 2006) was an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter-guitarist. He co-founded the Go-Betweens with Robert Forster in Brisbane in 1977. In addition to his work with the Go-Betweens (1977–89, ...

and

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. 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

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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

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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

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and was a music journalist on RAM;

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is in it. It's a song that no-one else could have written but me - for better or worse." 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."

Reception

The site named it the 22nd-best reviewed album of 2005.

Track listing

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

Bonus disc

# "People Say" (Live) – 3:31 # "He Lives My Life" (Live) – 4:03 # "The Wrong Road" (Live) – 5:17 # " Bye Bye Pride" (Live) – 4:54 # "When People Are Dead" (Live) – 4:45 # "

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" (Live) – 3:36

Personnel

Go-Betweens

– vocals, guitars, piano, organ *

– 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 –

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– clarinet * Dave Ruffy – keyboards, percussion

References

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