Venus Returning

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Venus Returning
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Studio album by
The Mavis's
Released20 May 1996 [1]
RecordedSing Sing Studios
Genre Indie rock
Label Mushroom
Producer Kalju Tonuma, The Mavis's
The Mavis's chronology
Venus Returning
(1996)		 Pink Pills
(1998)
Singles from Venus Returning
  1. "Moon Drone Gold"
    Released: 1995
  2. "Thunder"
    Released: March 1996 [2]
  3. "Box"
    Released: June 1996 [2]
  4. "Lost"
    Released: 1996 [2]

Venus Returning is the debut studio album by Australian pop band The Mavis's, released in May 1996 by record label Mushroom. [1] It was produced by Kalju Tonuma (Nick Barker). [3] [4] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described how it "highlighted the band's brash sound, which mixed the Thomas siblings' idiosyncratic, imperfect vocal blend, crashing guitars, sugar-frosted melodies, goofy keyboard embellishments and odd instrumentation (sitar, Tibetan bells and Indian banjo)." [3] "Thunder" was listed on the national youth radio Triple J audience poll, Hottest 100 of 1996, at No. 92. [5] [6] The album peaked at No. 76 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart. [7]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Moon Drone Gold" – 3:10
  2. "Thunder" – 3:32
  3. "Box" – 3:59
  4. "Giant" – 3:32
  5. "Do You Have a Brother?" – 2:54
  6. "Supa*Star" – 3:28
  7. "See-Saw" – 3:06
  8. "The Land That Time Forgot" – 2:59
  9. "Sleep" – 2:51
  10. "Lost" – 3:55
  11. "Ribcage" – 3:53
  12. "Ghosts of the Night" – 3:09

Charts

Chart performance for Venus Returning
Chart (1996)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 76

References

  1. 1 2 "New Releases – Product Available from: 20/5/96 (from The ARIA Report No. 326)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Mavis's ARIA Chart History (singles), received from ARIA in May 2024". ARIA. Retrieved 14 July 2024– via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  3. 1 2 McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'The Mavisis'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop . St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN   1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 15 June 2004.
  4. ↑ Holmgren, Magnus. "The Mavis's". hem.passagen.se. Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Swift, Brendan. "Biography & History". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Hottest 100 Archive: Mavis's". Triple J (Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)). Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  7. 1 2 Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 180.
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