Sunset Suburbia

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Sunset Suburbia
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Studio album by
Released28 August 2020
Recorded2019–2020
Length36:18
Label
  • Bloodlines
  • UMA
Diesel chronology
30: The Greatest Hits
(2018)
Sunset Suburbia
(2020)
Alone with Blues
(2021)
Singles from Sunset Suburbia
  1. "On the Inside"
    Released: 4 May 2020 [1]

Sunset Suburbia is the fourteenth studio album by Australian rock musician, Diesel. The album was announced on 4 May 2020, alongside the release of the single "On the Inside", and was released on 28 August 2020. [1] The album was preceded by two extended plays released in 2019. [2]

Contents

Following the release of Sunset Suburbia, Diesel will support the album with a tour. [3]

Background and release

On 11 June 2019, Diesel released the song "By the Scars", the first track taken from the Sunset Suburbia project: a trilogy of EPs leading into an album in 2020. [4]

On 2 August, the first EP titled Sunset Suburbia Vol. 1 was released with Diesel saying "For me, records have always been a little overwhelming. When I think back I've had panic attacks. When you are taking on something so big and then get through it, ironically when I get through it, I feel bummed when it comes to an end. Like, can't we just make it go a bit longer? The EP thing elongates the process and suits my lifestyle a bit more. It suits me creatively a lot more too". Diesel confirmed that EP one and two is complete adding "Every EP is like a mini album with a relativity between the songs. I do like to mix it up a bit with different styles. The next one is a lot different, it's not as Americana as the first one, it has an English feel". [5]

On 8 November 2019, the second EP Sunset Suburbia Vol. 2 and single "In Reverse" were released and confirm that volume 3 was "under construction". [6]

In May 2020, the single "On the Inside" was released and the album release date of August 2020 was confirmed, abandoning the third EP. [1]

About the title, Diesel said "Suburbia has always held a strange fascination for me. I remember designer cul-de-sacs strewn with shotgun shells in Chandler, Arizona; little vignettes of skateboarding around closed service stations on weekends in Perth, Australia; some guy in the hot tub in his backyard where I'm riding my bike over the rail overpass in Sydney. I love going into where people live — the sights, the smells, the little repetitive things that make their world. It's kind of a bittersweet thing but it's the stuff of life and it has a way of making songs." [7]

The album includes the tracks "By the Scars" and "Wake Up with an Angel" from Sunset Suburbia Vol. 1 and "In Reverse" and "Quietly Drift" from Sunset Suburbia Vol. 2.

Track listing

  1. "On the Inside" – 3:55
  2. "In Reverse" – 3:31
  3. "Come Back" – 3:23
  4. "NYC" – 3:41
  5. "I Found a Love" – 3:27
  6. "By the Scars" – 3:41
  7. "Quietly Drift" – 3:31
  8. "I'm Sold" – 3:27
  9. "Wake Up with an Angel" – 3:48
  10. "Sunset Suburbia" – 3:54

Charts

Chart performance of Sunset Suburbia
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] 10

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)LabelCatalogue
Australia [9] [10] [11] 28 August 2020 CD, digital download, streaming, limited-edition LP Bloodlines / UMA Blood72

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