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This year marks the 21st birthday of Warmer Corners, the seventh studio album by The Lucksmiths!
To celebrate this fine album’s transition into adulthood we are excited to announce a dashing red vinyl edition – limited to 500 copies worldwide – out June 19 via Lost and Lonesome (Aus) and Matinée Recordings (US).
The 2005 album saw a refining of what The Lucksmiths had been toiling with since their 1993 inception – warm, literate indiepop served straight up by three friends who met at high school: a singing drummer (Tali White), a strummy guitarist (Marty Donald) and a melodic bassist (Mark Monnone). Add to this an extra jangly lead guitar guy (Louis Richter) and the four-piece line-up for The Lucksmiths’ final quarter-life was set on foot.
Recorded at Melbourne’s Audrey Studios, Warmer Corners was further embellished by producer Craig Pilkington’s bold horn and string arrangements – a tradition that had been hinted at two albums earlier on 2001’s Why That Doesn’t Surprise Me but had received an access-all-areas pass this time around.
Having toured extensively, The Lucksmiths became well-loved for their public performances at home and abroad and Warmer Corners included several tracks that soon became live hits. ‘A Hiccup in Your Happiness’, ‘The Music Next Door’, ‘Sunlight in a Jar’ and ‘The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco’ all became fixtures of the live set. The album also contains several deep-cut fan faves, perhaps most notably final track ‘Fiction’ – a song that evidently spawned a tattoo craze among bookworms! (Well, at least a few that we know of…)
Upon its release Warmer Corners was well received by fans and critics alike. All Music Guide said the album is “another shimmering collection of road-trips put to music that balance wistful romanticism with mischievous grin”, while Pitchfork proclaimed the album to be “idiosyncratic but accessible, literate but unpretentious, gentle but not weak, sincere not so much in presentation as in presence…” and slapped it with a big 8.3 in a circle.
Tracklist:
A Hiccup in Your Happiness
The Music Next Door
Great Lengths
Now I'm Even Further Away
The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco
Sunlight in a Jar
If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now
Young and Dumb
Putting It Off and Putting It Off
I Don't Want to Walk Around Alone No More
The Fog of Trujillo
Fiction
