Lost (Died Pretty album)
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| Studio album by Died Pretty | ||||
| Released | June 1988 | |||
| Recorded | Early 1987 | |||
| Studio | Trafalgar Studios, Sydney | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 46:25 | |||
| Label | Blue Mosque/Festival Records | |||
| Producer | Rob Younger | |||
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Lost is the second album by Australian rock band Died Pretty. It was released in 1988.
The album, produced by former Radio Birdman vocalist Rob Younger, became the second biggest-selling alternative album for 1988, behind Ed Kuepper's Everybody's Got To and ahead of The Church's Starfish. It yielded three singles, including "Winterland," the fourth best-selling alternative single for 1987.
The album's release was delayed for 18 months by protracted negotiations with Festival Records over a distribution deal. An expanded version, featuring the 1989 single "Everybody Moves," as well as B-sides and alternative versions, was released in 2013 by Sandman Records.
The band entered Trafalgar Studios in early 1987, soon after returning home from a two-month, 70-date tour of Europe and the United States, physically exhausted but creatively energised. Keyboardist Frank Brunetti recalled: "Even though we weren't making much money out of it we could see that people were taking an interest, not just in Australia but in the States and Europe. There was demand from people to make another record." Bassist Mark Lock announced he would quit the band because he did not want to tour any more, but agreed to join them for the recording sessions while they searched for a replacement.
Myers said there was a determination to give the album more space and more light and shade than its predecessor. "A lot of the tracks on Free Dirt were very dense, everyone's playing flat out all the time. On Lost I wanted to shift that emphasis."
As part of that process, the band used singer Astrid Munday for backing vocals and former Cold Chisel keyboardist Don Walker on piano for the song "Free Dirt," which had been left off the debut album. Myers said: "I really liked the song itself and I wanted to give it another go." The band had hired Munday after hearing her vocals on Paul Kelly's "Before Too Long". The band asked for Walker's contribution when they saw him walking through Trafalgar Studios to collect some tapes. Myers said: "I thought what this song needs is some really beautiful piano and I was thinking "Flame Trees" and I went, 'hmmmm' ... Don had a listen to the song and he was very gracious ... he just went 'yeah, okay' and went into the studio and played the piano, did two takes and it was fantastic, just beautiful. It was exactly what I wanted."
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