Bless This Mess (Lisa Mitchell album)

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Bless This Mess
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Studio album by
Released12 October 2012
Recorded2012
The Stables Recording Studio
Genre Pop, folk
Length53:39
Label Warner Music Australia
Producer Dann Hume
Lisa Mitchell chronology
Spiritus
(2012)
Bless This Mess
(2012)
Warriors
(2016)
Singles from Bless This Mess
  1. "Bless This Mess"
    Released: 28 August 2012

Bless This Mess is Lisa Mitchell's second studio album. It was released in Australia and New Zealand on 12 October 2012. A national album tour started on 18 October 2012. The album debuted at #7 on the ARIA Charts on 21 October 2012.

Lisa Mitchell Australian singer

Lisa Helen Mitchell is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter who grew up in Albury, New South Wales. Mitchell currently lives in Melbourne and is working on her fourth studio album. Mitchell finished sixth in the 2006 season of Australian Idol. Her debut extended play, Said One to the Other, topped iTunes in Australia and she signed with London-based publisher, Little Victories, a subsidiary of Sony/ATV. By 2008 Mitchell had relocated to the UK where she recorded her debut studio album, Wonder, which peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Albums Chart. She won the 2009 Australian Music Prize of $30,000 for the album. Mitchell returned to Australia to live in Melbourne. Her second album, Bless This Mess reached No. 7. In March 2015, Mitchell's last single "Wah Ha" was remixed by electronic trio Seekae. Her third album Warriors was released on 16 October 2016 and debuted Top 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

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"Bless This Mess" was released as a single, prior to the release of the album. It peaked at number 92 on the ARIA singles chart.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Providence"5:09
2."So Much to Say"4:33
3."Spiritus"3:09
4."The Land Beyond the Front Door"2:42
5."The Story of the Raven and the Mushroom Man"4:19
6."Bless This Mess"3:45
7."Better Left Unsaid"4:38
8."The Present"3:40
9."Walk with Me"4:15
10."You Pretty Thing"2:59
11."Diamond in the Rough"4:08
12."I Know You're Somewhere"10:22
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