Streaks Of Light

 

1.
 Seaside Town
2.
 Hot Soles
3.
 Endless Lines
4.
 Useless Radio
5.
 The Ex Singer
6.
 Inside
7.
 Golden Greats & Lullabies
8.
 Temperature Gauge
9.
 Hotel Room
10.
 Do You Have A Problem Sir?
11.
 In Love
12.
 Stop Feeling Sorry
13.
 Beautiful Dream
14.
 Lost In My Own Street
   
   
1.
 People In The Street
2.
 Seen It All Before
3.
 Trust
4.
 Lucinda
5.
 Captains Of Industry
6.
 99%
7.
 Antarctica
8.
 Sleepwalker
9.
 Everything Falls Apart
10.
 Summer Feeling
11.
 Someone Else’s Home
   
   
Provenance (2002)
Courier Mail (Brisbane)
Pop music is like the movies. The blockbusters are designed to keep the wheels of industry oiled, but frequently it’s the little productions that really capture the spirit. Like this one, a collection of tender, slow-moving tunes that will still be playing at my place long after most of this week’s chart fodder has been forgotten.
Like 2000’s This Sad Paradise, Provenance finds the Sydney four-piece moving further from their alt-country beginnings building a pop universe with gently cascading acoustic guitars, harmonies, elegant George Harrison-ish guitar lines and Brian Crouch’s array of vintage keyboards. But the focus is always on the crisp tunes and the lonesome vocals of Dave Orwell, whose novelist’s eye for detail helps enrich these tales of ordinary lives, loves lost and quiet desperations.
Golden Rough might never crack the top ten. Then again, music this good would be mighty lonely up there.
1.
 April Wind
2.
 Novotel
3.
 Unity Grey
4.
 Don't Overlook Me
5.
 The Fisherman
6.
 Johnson's Wax
7.
 Swallows
8.
 Green Room
9.
 This Sad Paradise
10.
 Already Apart
11.
 Lovers Rock
 
   
This Sad Paradise (1999)
Sydney Morning Herald
'From the opening bars of the first track, April Wind, Golden Rough’s This Sad Paradise made my blood jump with that inexplicable sense of recognition one experiences when before successful pop. Oddly reminiscent of (though more countrified than) David Lane’s Compass, almost every choice in this marvellous assembly of intelligent, hard-won, lyrically satisfying songs feels nailed down with certainty.
Dave Orwell, the songwriter, sings for this country-flavoured, gently rocking five piece, and his vocals, though often brittle and reaching, suit the breezily emotive nature of the material. This is never more the case in Already Apart where the prettiness of a jaunty piano and chiming electric guitar sparkle about a bittersweet lyric that breathes with the kind of tender sarcasm only lovers exchange. Gentle bass, organ, piano, steel strings, harmonica, humour and heart.' **** out of 5
1.
 Joe Fisher's Blues
2.
 Soon
3.
 Song For Sam
4.
 Jane's Movie
5.
 Dawn To Dusk
6.
 Everything I Can Give
7.
 Pacific/Princes
8.
 Five Finger King
9.
 Eyes On The Line
10.
 Blue Note
11.
 Western Outskirts
 
   
Twin Firs (1997)
1.
 Slippery Slope
2.
 Steering Wheel
3.
 After All
4.
 Diamond Sutra
5.
 Left On The Starting Line
6.
 People In The Street (Live On JJJ OzMusic Show)
7.
 April Wind (Live On JJJ OzMusic Show)
8.
 99% (Acoustic Live On SuperRequest)
9.
 She Don't Care About Time (Gene Clark Cover w/ Joe Pernice)
 
   
Slippery Slope- EP (2003)
It's A Heck Of A Machine - EP (1995)
1.
 Sundowner
2.
 Oh Lonesome Me
3.
 Come To Sleep
4.
 Nightlife
5.
 Alexandria
6.
 Hearts On Fires
7.
 Shoes Without Heels
8.
 Evening Star
 
   
Homemade Plane’s debut album blends a variety of styles (indie rock, power pop, alt-country and acoustica) into a rich, melodic listen. The songs follow a range of recurring characters through beachside Sydney during a long, hot summer: sunbakers, insomniacs, faded stars, travellers and lovers, naïve teenagers and lonely widowers. The mood shifts from shimmery 70s pop (“Useless Radio”, with its ELO references) to darker, noisier rock moments (“The Ex Singer”) and ballads with touches of pedal steel and country harmonies (“Temperature Gauge”, “Hot Soles”). An organic, self produced recording, this album doesn’t contain any machine music – just real instruments played by hand, by the band.