Labour of Love (Woodlock EP)

"My Throne"
Labour of Love
EP by Woodlock
Released	16 May 2014 [1]
Studio	Albert Studios, Sydney
Genre	Indie, folk pop [2]
Length	29:45
Producer	Wayne Connolly ; Zech Walters and Eze Walters
Woodlock chronology
Singles from Labour of Love
	"My Throne"; Released: 17 April 2014 [3] ;

Last updated April 16, 2019

Labour of Love is the second independent EP by Melbourne acoustic folk band Woodlock.

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Track listing

All tracks written by Eze and Zech Walters.

Labour of Love EP^[6]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"What You've Got"	4:41
2.	"Baby Girl"	3:48
3.	"Run"	4:12
4.	"The Garden"	3:30
5.	"My Throne"	4:21
6.	"The Fallout"	3:22
7.	"Eleanor"	5:51
Total length:		29:45

Personnel

Adapted from the EP liner notes.^[7]

Woodlock

Eze Walters – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, organ, wurlitzer, production (on Eleanor)
Zech Walters – background vocals, synth, piano, organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, production (on Eleanor)
Bowen Purcell – percussion, drums

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Additional musicians

Wayne Connolly – production, electric guitar, peppercorn shaker
Jai Ingram – bass guitar
Angus Gomm – trumpet

Wayne Connolly is an Australian producer/engineer and musician. Throughout the 1990s, Connolly played in Sydney band, The Welcome Mat, with whom he released a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs on the Waterfront Records, Regular Records and id/Mercury labels. In 1994, he formed Knievel with Tracy Ellis and Nick Kennedy, who went on to release five albums and a series of singles on various labels in Australia, the United States and Japan including Murmur, Citadel Records and Albert Music. Knievel achieved high rotation on Triple J, toured locally and abroad, and supported acts such as Luna, Teenage Fanclub, Death Cab for Cutie and The Pernice Brothers.

Charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
ARIA Top 100	97^[8]

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue #	Ref.
Australia	16 May 2014	Independent	CD, digital download	WL001	^[1]

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↑ Hung, Steffen (1 June 2014). "australian-charts.com – Forum – ARIA Chartifacts 2-June-2014 (ARIA Charts: Weekly ARIA Chartifacts)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

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[groove-1] 1 2 "Labour Of Love – Woodlock". The Groove Merchants. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

[2] Woodlock (2015). "Labour Of Love". SoundCloud. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

[3] "My Throne - Single by Woodlock on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved 11 January 2017.

[4] "Labour Of Love (EP)". Merch. Woodlock. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

[5] "Woodlock + The Franklin Electric (Canada) + Hollow Coves — Brass Monkey Cronulla". BrassMonkey. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

[6] "Labour of Love by Woodlock on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

[7] Labour of Love (Liner notes). Woodlock. 2014.

[8] Hung, Steffen (1 June 2014). "australian-charts.com – Forum – ARIA Chartifacts 2-June-2014 (ARIA Charts: Weekly ARIA Chartifacts)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.