(2020) Powderfinger - Unreleased (1998-2010)


Review:
Powderfinger have released their first studio album since breaking up a decade ago, Unreleased 1998-2010. As the title indicates, the 10-track release collates songs recorded between 1998 and 2010 that “for one reason or another just didn’t make the cut at the time, or just didn’t suit the purposes of whatever we were doing,” according to guitarist Darren Middleton. The material was reportedly whittled down to 10 from 50 songs, found while compiling material for a 20th anniversary edition of their 2000 classic Odyssey Number Five. Longtime producer Nick DiDia remastered all 10 songs. The bulk of the material belongs to the sessions around the band’s 2009 final studio album, Golden Rule – ‘Happy’, ‘Daybreak’, ‘Wrecking Ball’, ‘Diamond Ring’ and ‘What Are You Waiting For’ were all recorded then. The ‘Vulture Street’ (2003) and ‘Dream Days at the Hotel Existence’ (2006-7) eras get two songs respectively: ‘Day By Day’ and ‘Lou Doimand’ from the former, ‘Say It So I Know’ and ‘I Don’t Want to Be Your Problem’ from the latter. Only one song from the ‘Internationalist’ era (1998) makes it on: ‘Rule of Thumb’.





Tracklist:
01 - Day By Day
02 - Daybreak
03 - What Are You Waiting For
04 - Diamond Ring
05 - Say It So I Know
06 - Lou Doimand
07 - I Don't Want to Be Your Problem
08 - Rule of Thumb
09 - Happy
10 - Wrecking Ball


Media Report:
Genre: rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits