MusicJournoMidnight Oil - Earth and Sun and Moon
November 19th 2006 12:22
'Earth and Sun and Moon' is, what I think, a highly underrated Midnight Oil album from 1993. Usually 'Blue Sky Mining', '10 to 1' or 'Diesal and Dust' gets all the praise, but this later album is pretty grand.
I don't really know what it is exactly, the instrumentation just seems to be at a point where the Oils are straddling the line between subtlety/understatement and outright pop-sensibility. There are some really good bass-driven bits, their iconic use of percussion, sparse guitars and harmonica, and - of course - Peter Garrett's warbling ocker vocals. It's a more laid-back and even-paced recording than some of their earlier and more urgent efforts, but I think it shows their growing maturity as a band during the early 90s, and it's definitely before they jumped the shark (which can probably be pinpointed with the mediocre albums 'The Real Thing' and 'Capricornia').
Standout tracks would have to be the uplifting and typically-subversive single 'Truganini', the heartfelt 'My Country', the folksy 'In The Valley' and the catchy 'Outbreak of Love'. That isn't to say the other tracks are filler, they're all good efforts too.
Midnight Oil rule the school. Do you like them? If not, what's bloody wrong with ya? They're awesome.
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Comment by katyzzz
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Very good article.
I like your expression Peter Garret's aussie warble, that made me laugh.
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