Ziggurats (album)

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Ziggurats
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 14, 2007 (AUS)
May 14, 2007 (Worldwide)
RecordedNoisegate Studios
Genre Roots
Reggae
Alternative
Length51:20
Label Die!Boredom Records
MGM Distribution
Producer Mat. McHugh, Ian Pritchett
The Beautiful Girls chronology
We're Already Gone
(2005)
Ziggurats
(2007)
Spooks
(2010)

Ziggurats is the 2007 album from Australian three-piece band The Beautiful Girls. It was released in May, 2007 and features the single I Thought About You.

Australia Country in Oceania

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

The Beautiful Girls Australian roots band

The Beautiful Girls are an Australian roots music group founded in 2001 by Mat McHugh, Clay MacDonald and Mitchell Connelly. They have released three extended plays, Morning Sun (2002), Goodtimes (2002) and The Weight of the World (2004); plus five studio albums, Learn Yourself (2003), We're Already Gone (2005), Ziggurats (2007), Spooks (2010), and Dancehall Days (2014). The latter four albums have all peaked into the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Spooks and "Dancehall Days" also debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Independent Chart and, No. 7&5 (respectively) on the American Billboard Reggae Albums Chart. Their single, "I Thought About You", reached No. 60 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mat McHugh unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Royalty" – 3:30
  2. "Sir, Your Fashion Has The Cold Heart Of A Killer" – 5:34
  3. "I Thought About You" – 3:12
  4. "Bring Me Your Cup [UB40 Cover]" (Wilson, Hassan, Brown, Travers, Campbell, Cam) – 4:13
  5. "Spanish Town" – 2:37
  6. "Under A Southern Sky" – 4:10
  7. "Generals" – 3:34
  8. "In Love" – 3:01
  9. "She's Evil" – 4:48
  10. "Dela" (J. Clegg) – 3:43
  11. "Wounds" – 4:11
  12. "Dealer Wins" – 3:23
  13. "The Devil (He Waits)" – 2:45
  14. "We Will Shine Like Gold" – 2:23

Videos

  1. "I Thought About You"
  2. "In Love" Filmed on the Gold Coast in Australia, March 2007.

Directed by Joel Jonsson, Produced by Tim Walther, DOP Cody Richardson, Production design by Sigrid Niederlintner

Personnel

Melodica free-reed instrument

The melodica is a free-reed instrument similar to the pump organ and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole, allowing air to flow through a reed. The keyboard covers usually two or three octaves. Melodicas are small, light, and portable. They are popular in music education, especially in Asia.

Didgeridoo wind instrument

The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe". Musicologists classify it as a brass aerophone.

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