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[ForeverAutumn]

Today, mine is the beautiful and sad "There Is No Such Place" from the also beautiful debut of Augie March, Sunset Studies. Lots of memorable repeatables on this one, they really did come on the scene fully formed.

There is no such place
If I lower mine to yours might you kiss me on the face?
If you're looking for an unmarked place,
There is no such place -
Blasted in appearance and a composite of fearful minutes
Frozen in the waking instant

That is a beautiful tune. I have it on Moo You Bloody Choir (another killer rec from my RR buddies!). Is the version on Sunset Studies different?

[Davey]

That is a beautiful tune. I have it on Moo You Bloody Choir (another killer rec from my RR buddies!). Is the version on Sunset Studies different?

Similar, but it's a little simpler arrangement, and sounds more subtle without the syrupy strings, mostly just piano, some acoustic guitar and drum brushes. That's really all it needed. Check in red below ...

In late 2000 Augie March released their first full-length album, "Sunset Studies". The album stayed in the Australian National Albums (ARIA) chart for half the year. Listeners of national #1 youth radio station Triple J voted “Sunset Studies” into their Top 5 Albums of the Year. Again, the album is still finding new homes a couple of years after release; it crept its way through various musical communities of the world like a creeping vine. It ranked in Jack Rabid's influential U.S mag The Big Takeover's Top 40 Albums of 2001 – without being released there. Similarly, in Q Magazine's (UK) Readers Poll for the Best 50 Albums of The Last 15 Years; “Sunset Studies” got an honourable mention, without a UK release. It has found willing ears across Europe, in Japan, Canada and many other parts of the galaxy. Video clips were made for The Hole in Your Roof, Heartbeat and Sails and There Is No Such Place. There Is No Such Place featured the piano and backing vocal talents of the late great Awesome Bobby Dawson, a longtime friend of the band who joined in early 2000, and tragically departed from this world about a year later. He is not only very, very, very fondly remembered by friends and fans as an incredible man but he is present in Augie March and what they do.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-NAMO~936