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Distant Light (Alex Lloyd album)

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Released
  
September 2003

Distant Light (2003)
  
Alex Lloyd (2005)

Release date
  
September 2003

Genre
  
Rock music

Producer
  
Stuart Miller

Artist
  
Alex Lloyd

Label
  
Capitol Records

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Similar
  
Black the Sun, Watching Angels Mend, Good in the Face of a Stranger, Alex Lloyd, Acoustica

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Distant Light is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd. Released in September 2003, it has been certified platinum in Australia and had three top 40 singles taken from it.

Contents

The Making of Distant Light

On the Chaos Music website, Lloyd states that the album is based on homesickness after a long stretch on the road promoting his second album Watching Angels Mend. "That was the headspace of where I was at the time. We went to a lot of strange places, maybe places I don’t want to revisit. It was a pretty lonely time. I think I’d reached a point where I’d just travelled too much."

Distant Light features Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey of Midnight Oil on several tracks. It was produced by Stuart Miller, who had also produced Watching Angels Mend and mixed by Tony Hoffer who has worked with Air, Beck and Turin Brakes.

The album, with its first single winning Lloyd an ARIA for 'Best Male Artist' in 2003, was also nominated in two categories at the ARIAs in 2004: 'Engineer of the Year' and again, 'Best Male Artist'. The album has been certified platinum in Australia.

Track listing

All tracks by Alex Lloyd

  1. "Hello The End" – 3:53
  2. "Distant Light" – 4:02
  3. "Coming Home" – 3:06
  4. "Far Away" – 4:20
  5. "1000 Miles" – 3:02
  6. "Save My Soul" – 3:56
  7. "Ordinary Boy" – 4:12
  8. "Beautiful" – 3:22
  9. "This Is A Call" – 4:07
  10. "Chasing The Sun" – 2:55
  11. "Light Is On" – 3:45
  12. "What's Wrong" – 3:49
  13. "America" – 3:33

Personnel

  • Michael Barker – percussion, drums
  • Andrew Bickers – horn
  • Felix Bloxom – percussion, drums
  • Brent Clark – engineer
  • Sam Dixon – bass
  • George Ellis Choir – chorus
  • Georgia Ellis – string copyist
  • Brian "Big Bass" Gardener – mastering
  • Barbara Griffin – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Stuart Hunter – keyboards, horn arrangements
  • Alex Hewitson – double bass
  • Tony Hoffer – mixing
  • Kinnon Holt – guitar
  • Andrew Bickers - saxophone
  • Anthony Kable – trombone
  • Stewart Kirwan – trumpet
  • Alex Lloyd – bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals, producer, horn arrangements, string arrangements
  • Stuart Miller – producer
  • Jim Moginie – guitar, keyboards
  • Simon Moor – A&R
  • Kim Moyes – vibraphone
  • Shane Nicholson – guitar, backing vocals
  • John O'Donnell – A&R
  • Benny Quinn – creative director
  • Terepai Richmond – percussion, drums
  • Michel Rose – pedal steel
  • Martin Rotsey – guitar
  • Luke Steele – guitar
  • Simon Weller – photography
  • Songs

    1Hello The End3:54
    2Distant Light4:02
    3Coming Home3:06

    References

    Distant Light (Alex Lloyd album) Wikipedia