''This Delicate Thing We've Made'' is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter

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. It is a

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that was released on his own label

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on 20 August 2007. The first single from the album, "

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", was released in Australia on 28 July 2007 and in the UK and online on 6 August 2007.

Background

The album has been made with the help of a 1982

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synthesizer, and the ex-

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frontman has said it is a cinematic and theatrical album. It reached number 5 on the Top Albums chart of the Australian

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on the day of release and number 3 later in its first week. Hayes later said of the album in a 2011 interview that "it was my rebellious streak. It was a strange 25-song double album with only one or two songs that could be played on the radio. It was a bit sobering." Hayes released a companion DVD, ''This Delicate Film We've Made'', containing music videos for fifteen of the songs on the album, with the audio remastered in 5.1 surround sound. A number of the videos were animations in which Hayes did not appear.

Singles

* "

" was released as the album's first official single on 1 July 2007, with the music video premiering on 9 July. A short clip of the song had previously been revealed in an album teaser on Hayes' official website. * "

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" was revealed the album's second single in a blog entry on 4 August 2007.Darren Hayes' official MySpace
/ref> The music video was released on 25 September 2007. A short clip of the song had previously been revealed in an album teaser on Hayes' official website. * " Casey" became the album's third and final single in March 2008, and was backed by a plethora of B-sides and remixes on various digital bundles, none of which featured the original version of the song. The partly animated music video was released in December 2007. " Step into the Light" was first revealed via an album teaser on Hayes' official website and MySpace profile. On 14 May 2007, Hayes released an animated video for the song, and in June 2007, a promotional remix EP was released to clubs in the United States in promotion of the album. The single was only issued promotionally. " Who Would Have Thought" was released as a promotional single alongside the release of "Me, Myself and (I)". The song was accompanied by an animated video, which was premiered as a teaser on his official website, as well as his Myspace profile, on 9 April 2007. The track was co-written with

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Charts

''This Delicate Thing We've Made'' spent just two weeks in the Australian top 50 and the UK top 75: it entered the Australian Albums Top 50 at No. 19 before falling to No. 38 the following week, and entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 14 before falling to No. 72 the following week.This Delicate Thing We've Made: Chart Trajectory
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Track listing

''This Delicate Film We've Made'' DVD

# A Fear of Falling Under # Who Would Have Thought # Waking the Monster # How to Build a Time Machine # Neverland # Step into the Light # Casey # Setting Sun # Words # A Hundred Challenging Things a Boy Can Do # Maybe # A Conversation With God # Bonus Music Videos # On the Verge of Something Wonderful # Me, Myself and (I)

Charts

References

{{Authority control 2007 albums Darren Hayes albums Electronica albums by Australian artists