Six Feet Above Yesterday

Six Feet Above Yesterday
Studio album by
Infusion
Released20 September 2004 (2004-09-20)
Studio
  • 001, Melbourne
  • Allan Eaton, Melbourne
  • Sing Sing, Melbourne
GenreElectronica
Length65:24
LabelSony BMG
ProducerManuel Sharrad, Jamie Stevens, Frank Xavier
Infusion chronology
Phrases and Numbers
(2000) 		Six Feet Above Yesterday
(2004) 		All Night Sun Light
(2009)
Singles from Six Feet Above Yesterday
  1. "Girls Can Be Cruel"
    Released: April 2004
  2. "Better World"
    Released: June 2004
  3. "The Careless Kind"
    Released: December 2004
  4. "Natural"
    Released: March 2005

Six Feet Above Yesterday is the second studio album by Australian electronica and dance music trio Infusion. It was released in September 2004 and peaked at number 61 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2005, the album won the Best Dance Release.

Background

Infusion started work on their second studio album, Six Feet Above Yesterday, in late 2002 with the line-up of Manuel Sharrad, Jamie Stevens and Frank Xavier – all on synthesisers and vocals.[1] In October 2003, the group relocated to Melbourne from Sydney and signed with Sony BMG.[2] They started on the album by making demo recordings at their own studio, in Carlton.[1] They travelled to London in January 2004 to work on it,[2] but returned to various Melbourne studios to record it with all three band members as producers.[3]

The trio were joined in the studio by session musicians, who provided guitars, cellos, horns, vibraphones, violins, trumpets and trombones.[4] Session musicians included Clint Hyndman from Something for Kate on drums, members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and John Davis from Daft Punk.[5]

Ahead of the album they issued two singles, "Girls Can Be Cruel" in April 2004 and "Better World" in June. Six Feet Above Yesterday was released on 20 September 2004, which peaked at No. 61 on the ARIA albums chart.[6] "The Careless Kind" was issued as its third single in December. "Natural", which appeared as a bonus track on a later album version, was issued as the album's fourth single in March 2005.

Awards and nominations

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2005, Six Feet Above Yesterday won the ARIA Award for Best Dance Release.[7] It was their second consecutive win of that category, they won in 2004 with "Girls Can Be Cruel".[8] At the APRA Music Awards of 2005 the song was nominated for Most Performed Dance Work,[9] while "Natural" was nominated in the same category in the following year.[10]

Track listing

All tracks written by Manuel Sharrad, Jamie Matthew Stevens and Francis Eugene Xavier.

  1. "Better World" – 3:30
  2. "The Careless Kind" – 5:04
  3. "Feeding from the Hand" – 2:55
  4. "Girls Can Be Cruel" – 3:58
  5. "Love and Imitation" – 7:35
  6. "Daylight Hours" – 7:20
  7. "Invisible" – 5:05
  8. "Best in Show" – 5:14
  9. "Rattlewasp" – 5:15
  10. "Dream" – 4:18
  11. "We Follow. I Fly." – 2:41
  12. "Always There" – 5:46
  13. "Continental Drift" – 3:07

Bonus Track

  2. "Natural (Radio Edit Long)" – 3:36

Special Edition Disc Two

  1. "Natural (Extended Version)" – 8:07
  2. "Girls Can Be Cruel (King Unique Danger Dub)" – 6:55
  3. "Girls Can Be Cruel (Dylan Rhymes Remix)" – 7:04
  4. "The Careless Kind (Evil Nine Remix)" – 8:14
  5. "The Careless Kind (Naum Gabo Remix)" – 5:46
  6. "The Careless Kind (Switch Mix)" – 6:20
  7. "Better World (Wink Interpretation)" – 8:59
  8. "Better World (Adam Freeland Mix)" – 6:42
  9. "Do to You (In '82)" – 7:55

Charts

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts) 61[11]

"Better World (Adam Freeland Mix)" was featured in Burnout Revenge in 2005.

References

  1. ^ a b Drever, Andrew (29 November 2002). "Infusion Enthuses". The Age. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b Cashmere, Paul (22 January 2004). "Infusion to play Big Day Out". Undercover. Archived from the original on 28 March 2004. Retrieved 7 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Six Feet Above Yesterday [Bonus Track] – Infusion | Release Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  4. ^ Flipsidedown (23 November 2004). "[ITM] Infusion – Six Feet Above Yesterday". InTheMix. Archived from the original on 6 December 2004. Retrieved 10 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Releases :: Six Feet Above Yesterday". Australian Music Online. Archived from the original on 19 April 2006. Retrieved 10 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Thomas, Tara (29 September 2004). "Week Commencing ~ 29th September 2004 ~ Issue #761" (PDF). The ARIA Report (761). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA): 2–3, 8, 11, 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2004. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. ^ "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2005: 19th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  8. ^ "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2004: 18th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 4 March 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Nominations 2005". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
  10. ^ "Nominations - 2006". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Archived from the original on 18 September 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  11. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 137.