Dream Your Life Away

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Dream Your Life Away
Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away.png
Studio album by
Vance Joy
Released5 September 2014
Recorded2012–2013
Studio
Genre
Length49:00
Label Liberation Music
Producer
Vance Joy chronology
God Loves You When You're Dancing
(2013)		Dream Your Life Away
(2014)		 Nation of Two
(2018)
Singles from Dream Your Life Away
  1. "Mess Is Mine"
    Released: 9 July 2014
  2. "First Time"
    Released: 4 August 2014
  3. "Georgia"
    Released: 9 November 2014

Dream Your Life Away is the debut studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy. It was released in Australia on 5 September 2014 via Liberation Music. The album was released on 9 September 2014 in the US via Atlantic Records and worldwide via Warner Music. The album has peaked to number 1 on the Australian Albums Chart. A "Deluxe Edition" was released on 4 September 2015, consisting of two new tracks and five live tracks. [1]

Contents

As of January 2018, the album has worldwide sales over 2,000,000. [2]

Background

During a performance in Boston, Vance Joy explained that the song "My Kind of Man" included advice his uncle once gave him when he was young. [3] But he later learned from his father that the quoted advice was actually from a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. Vance Joy noted that though the lyrics changed, the message stayed the same: "Find something you love and understand." [3]

Singles

The album also includes the singles "From Afar" and "Riptide", previously released on Joy's debut EP God Loves You When You're Dancing.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Clash 6/10 [5]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
PopMatters 7/10 [7]
Rolling Stone Australia Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Timothy Monger from AllMusic noted that the album is "built around the centerpiece of "Riptide" and that it "offers up a dozen or so additional songs in that familiar mold of romantic, introspective, acoustic folk-pop". He felt that the album "focuses on gently picked lovelorn pleas and somewhat uninspired romantic phrasing" and commented that it "seems a bit too middle of the road to really distinguish him from the crowded pack of similar young bards." [4] Clash writer Jack Scourfield praised the album's "heartfelt honesty" that can "spread the youthful nostalgia adeptly across any generational gaps." He also noted that the album "does become prone to dragging during some of its less well-defined, slower numbers." [5] Jaymz Clements for Rolling Stone Australia gave Dream Your Life Away a positive review, stating that the album effectively "[shows] there's more to Vance Joy than "Riptide"", noting that the album is "confident, self-assured and classically Australian, with an appeal that's universal." [8]

Commercial performance

On 13 September 2014 the album entered the Australian Albums Chart at number one. It is the eleventh album to reach number one for an Australian act in 2014 and the first time ever that the Liberation label have landed back-to-back number ones after Jimmy Barnes's album 30:30 Hindsight reached number one the previous week. [9] In the United States, the album peaked at number 17 on the US Billboard 200 chart and number two on the Top Alternative Albums chart. The album was eventually certified two-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over two million units in the United States.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Vance Joy.

Standard edition
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Winds of Change" Ryan Hadlock 2:15
2."Mess Is Mine"Hadlock3:43
3."Wasted Time"Hadlock5:00
4."Riptide"Vance Joy, Edwin White, John Castle3:21
5."Who Am I"Hadlock2:39
6."From Afar"Vance Joy, Edwin White, John Castle4:23
7."We All Die Trying to Get It Right"Hadlock4:07
8."Georgia"Hadlock3:50
9."Red Eye"Hadlock5:03
10."First Time"Hadlock3:44
11."All I Ever Wanted"Hadlock3:36
12."Best That I Can"Edwin White3:30
13."My Kind of Man"Hadlock3:49
Total length:49:00
Special edition
No.TitleLength
14."Fire and the Flood"4:09
15."Straight into Your Arms" (bonus track)3:37
Total length:56:56
Deluxe edition
No.TitleLength
14."Fire and the Flood"4:09
15."Straight into Your Arms"3:37
16."Wasted Time" (live from Philadelphia)5:07
17."Mess is Mine" (live from Philadelphia)3:37
18."Georgia" (live from Melbourne)4:09
19."Best That I Can" (live from Melbourne)5:11
20."Riptide" (live from Dublin)3:39
Total length:78:29

Personnel

Charts

Decade-end charts

Decade-end chart performance for Dream Your Life Away
Chart (2010–2019)Position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [39] 73

Certifications

Certifications for Dream Your Life Away
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [40] 2× Platinum140,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [41] 3× Platinum240,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [42] Platinum20,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [43] Gold100,000‡
United States (RIAA) [44] 2× Platinum2,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history and formats for Dream Your Life Away
RegionRelease dateFormatLabelCatalog
Australia [45] 5 September 2014
 Liberation LMCD0247
New Zealand [46]
Various [47] [48] 9 September 2014
7567867185
Australia [49] 24 September 2014 LP LiberationA5451701
Australia [50] 4 September 2015
  • CD
  • digital download (deluxe)
LMCD0314
Australia [51] 14 September 2018 Limited edition LP LRLP0005

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