Distant Light (Alex Lloyd album)

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Distant Light
Distant light.jpg
Studio album by
Alex Lloyd
ReleasedSeptember 2003
Genre Rock
Label EMI
Producer Stuart Miller
Alex Lloyd chronology
Watching Angels Mend
(2001)		Distant Light
(2003)		 Alex Lloyd
(2005)
Singles from Distant Light
  1. "Coming Home"
    Released: August 2003
  2. "1000 Miles"
    Released: November 2003
  3. "Beautiful"
    Released: April 2004
  4. "Hello The End"
    Released: 2004

Distant Light is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd. Released in September 2003, it has been certified platinum in Australia and had three top 40 singles taken from it. [1]

Australia Country in Oceania

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

Singer-songwriter musician who writes, composes and sings

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

Alex Lloyd Singer-Songwriter from Australia

Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 and went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts. He has also won two ARIA awards for "Male Artist of the Year" in 2000 and 2002.

Contents

The Making of Distant Light

On the Chaos Music website, Lloyd states that the album is based on homesickness after a long stretch on the road promoting his second album Watching Angels Mend . "That was the headspace of where I was at the time. We went to a lot of strange places, maybe places I don’t want to revisit. It was a pretty lonely time. I think I’d reached a point where I’d just travelled too much."

<i>Watching Angels Mend</i> 2001 studio album by Alex Lloyd

Watching Angels Mend is the second studio album by Alex Lloyd on 17 September 2001 by EMI Records. It won the 2002 ARIA Music Award for Best Male Artist. And it was nominated for the ARIA Music Award for Highest Selling Album but lost to Kylie Minogue's Fever.

Distant Light features Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey of Midnight Oil on several tracks. It was produced by Stuart Miller, who had also produced Watching Angels Mend and mixed by Tony Hoffer who has worked with Air, Beck and Turin Brakes.

Jim Moginie Australian musician

James Moginie is an Australian musician. He is best known for his work with Midnight Oil, of which he was a founding member, guitarist, keyboardist and leading songwriter.

Martin Rotsey is an Australian guitarist and a member of the rock band Midnight Oil, which was active from 1977-2002 and resumed performing together in 2017.

Midnight Oil Australian band

Midnight Oil are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey (guitar) and Bones Hillman. The group was formed in Sydney in 1972 by Hirst, Moginie and original bassist Andrew James as Farm: they enlisted Garrett the following year, changed their name in 1976, and hired Rotsey a year later. Peter Gifford served as bass player from 1980–1987.

The album, with its first single winning Lloyd an ARIA for 'Best Male Artist' in 2003, was also nominated in two categories at the ARIAs in 2004: 'Engineer of the Year' and again, 'Best Male Artist'. The album has been certified platinum in Australia.

Track listing

All tracks by Alex Lloyd

  1. "Hello The End" – 3:53
  2. "Distant Light" – 4:02
  3. "Coming Home" – 3:06
  4. "Far Away" – 4:20
  5. "1000 Miles" – 3:02
  6. "Save My Soul" – 3:56
  7. "Ordinary Boy" – 4:12
  8. "Beautiful" – 3:22
  9. "This Is A Call" – 4:07
  10. "Chasing The Sun" – 2:55
  11. "Light Is On" – 3:45
  12. "What's Wrong" – 3:49
  13. "America" – 3:33

Charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
scope="row"Australian Albums (ARIA) [2] 9

Personnel

Terepai Chalmers Richmond is an Australian drummer. He joined the Sydney-based rock band The Whitlams in September 1999 and formerly played in acid jazz group Directions in Groove (d.i.g.).

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References

  1. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Colin Larkin - 2006 - Volume 5 - Page 284 "LLOYD, ALEX Lloyd, he began writing and recording sessions for his debut album in Sydney, before relocating to Santa Monica, Los Angeles to complete the mastering. Although ... His third album, Distant Light, was released in summer 2004."
  2. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Alex Lloyd – DISTANT LIGHT". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Alex Lloyd chart positions. Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 17 June 2007.

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