Born Sandy Devotional

by The Triffids

Born Sandy Devotional cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1986
  • Label: Mushroom
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 1:12:38
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Evil Graham Lee, Jill Birt, Chris Abrahams, Alsy MacDonald, Lesley Wynne, Graham Lee, Sally Collins, Fay Brown

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Born Sandy Devotional' is a sweeping, deeply evocative masterwork of Australian alternative rock, steeped in imagery of the remote outback and ocean landscapes. David McComb's intensely poetic, melancholic songwriting is framed by wide-open jangle-pop guitars, dramatic strings, and subtle post-punk rhythms. It is a lonely, profoundly bittersweet record that stands as a definitive document of the 80s Australian underground.

Genres

Descriptors: nature, rhythmic, storytelling, acoustic, expansive

Tracklist

  1. The Seabirds (3:20)
  2. Estuary Bed (4:49)
  3. Chicken Killer (3:51)
  4. Tarrilup Bridge (3:21)
  5. Lonely Stretch (5:02)
  6. Wide Open Road (4:08)
  7. Life of Crime (4:24)
  8. Personal Things (2:57)
  9. Stolen Property (6:47)
  10. Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity) (3:53)
  11. The 107 (3:28)
  12. When A Man Turns Bad (4:35)
  13. Of The Plaza (2:40)
  14. White Shawl (1:08)
  15. Convent Walls (4:04)
  16. Time of Weakness (3:12)
  17. Born Sandy Devotional (5:07)
  18. Wish To See No More (1:59)
  19. Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity) - Alternate Version (3:42)

Credits

  • The Triffids - primary artist, arranged by, producer
  • Adam Peters - arranged by [strings], cello, keyboards, keyboard, stringsarranger
  • David McComb - arranged by [strings], guitar, keyboards, vocals, keyboard, stringsarranger, vocal
  • Robert McComb - arranged by [strings], backing vocals, guitar, violin, stringsarranger, background vocals vocal
  • Alsy MacDonald - backing vocals, drums, membranophone, background vocals vocal
  • Fay Brown - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
  • Sally Collins - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
  • Martyn P. Casey - bass, graphic design, bass guitar
  • Nick Mainsbridge - engineer, recorded by
  • Jill Birt - keyboards, vocals, keyboard, vocal
  • Don Bartley - lacquer cut by
  • Evil Graham Lee - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
  • Chris Abrahams - piano, vibraphone
  • Gil Norton - producer
  • Lesley Wynne - viola
  • Martyn Lambert - graphic design
  • Graham Lee - guitar, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar

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