Mallboy (album)

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Mallboy
Underground Lovers Mallboy.jpg
Soundtrack album by
Released2001
Genre Electronic
Length42:34
Label Silvertone
Producer Philip Brophy, Glenn Bennie, Vincent Giarrusso, Robert Goodge
Underground Lovers chronology
Cold Feeling
(1999)
Mallboy
(2001)
Wonderful Things: Retrospective
(2011)
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Mallboy is a soundtrack album by Australian indie rock/electronic band Underground Lovers, released in 1997. The music was written as a score for the feature film of the same name written and directed by Underground Lovers keyboardist Vincent Giarrusso and starring Kane McNay and Neil Feeney.

Contents

Much of the album is atmospheric in tone, with sound effects echoing the inner city environment, but Giarrusso said his decision to limit the number of songs on the album was a deliberate one.

"I was adamant with the soundtrack that we didn't want a party tape, the back catalogue of a record company," he told The Australian. Instead he wrote minimal instrumentation, such as single guitar notes, to convey the inner state of the lead character, Shaun, by suggesting his turmoil. Giarrusso then worked with sound designer Philip Brophy to cut the film to the music rather than the other way around. [6]

Track listing

(All songs by Glenn Bennie and Vincent Giarrusso except where noted)

  1. "Escalation" – 1:55
  2. "In a World of Shit" – 3:52
  3. "Trucks, Trams and Automobiles" – 0:47
  4. "The Mull is High in the Paddocks" – 3:38
  5. "Shaun in the City" – 1:08
  6. "Crunchy Payola Sweet" – 2:35
  7. "The Squirrel Grippers" – 3:08
  8. "Shaun's Motif in G" – 1:52
  9. "I Love My Trackies Man" – 3:37
  10. "Souse Une Bonne Etoile" – 1:00
  11. "Mainman Mall Motif" – 1:25
  12. "Western Boy" — 1:12
  13. "Shaun's Motif in D Movement to Clarity" – 2:00
  14. "Twittering" — 1:02
  15. "Suburban Spawls" — 8:18
  16. "Shaun's Motif in D Reprise" – 1:16
  17. "Trackies Remix" — 3:37

Personnel

Additional musicians

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References

  1. Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun, 25 February 2001, page 90.
  2. Lynden Barber, The Australian, 3 March 2001.
  3. The Age, 2 February 2001.
  4. Cameron Adams, Herald Sun, 1 February 2001, page 54.
  5. Sacha Molitorisz, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 February 2001, page 25.
  6. Georgina Safe, "Scenes from a mall, troubled youth and all", The Australian, 5 January 2001, page 14.