CHAD'S TREE

Title: Crossing Off The Miles
Label: Memorandum (Australia)
Catalogue No: (mem07)
Format: CD (double album)
Release Date: March 2010
Price: $ 30.00

First time on CD for the long-awaited recordings of Chad's Tree, the band that introduced the singer-songwriting brothers, Mark and Rob Snarski to the Australian public. The brothers are best known for their post-Chad's Tree careers in The Jackson Code and the ARIA-nominated Blackeyed Susans respectively. They also both sing with the remaining Triffids, when that band stages their tribute to the songs of Dave McComb in the Secret In The Shape of a Song concerts.

Emerging from Perth in the early 1980s and relocating to Sydney mid-decade, Chad's Tree were championed by fellow West Australians, The Triffids - a band they more than shared stylistic and thematic similarities with. Chad's Tree's brittle, off-kilter sound evoked the sense of distance, desolation, harshness and loneliness of the Australian landscape.

Crossing Off The Miles features both the Buckle In The Rail (1988) and Kerosene (1989) albums, every single and B-side and 11 unheard early demos and live recordings. All audio has been remastered from the original master tapes. Crossing Off The Miles is housed in a smart gatefold wallet with a 32 page booklet stuffed with rare photos and exclusive liners notes from eight contributors including both Rob and Mark Snarski, authors Niall Lucy and David Nichols. This is an essential purchase for the Australian indie enthusiast, the many who have tracked the brothers' careers so far, or simply for those who were there...

Track Listing - Disc 1: (73:24 m:s)

1. Sweet Jesus Blue Eyes (3:31 m:s)
2. Heatwater Train (4:16 m:s)
3. The Magician (3:24 m:s)
4. Entangled Vines (4:02 m:s)
5. The 31st Lie (4:51 m:s)
6. Tread Softly (3:21 m:s)
7. Carve It In Wood (3:02 m:s)
8. The Vintage Of St Helen's (2:41 m:s)
9. On My Blind Side (4:09 m:s)
10. Calendar (3:18 m:s)
11. Crush The Lilly (4:18 m:s)
12. Highest Bidder (3:20 m:s)
13. Toll For Josephine (3:33 m:s)
14. Marion (3:15 m:s)
15. Summer Rain (3:14 m:s)
16. Lipstick (aka Entangled Vines) (4:21 m:s)
17. For Her Pleasure (3:06 m:s)
18. The Devil Within (aka Calendar) (4:03 m:s)
19. Dead Leaves (4:05 m:s)
20. Sunday's Bells (3:34 m:s)

    Tracks 1-10 (Buckle In The Rail)
    Tracks 11-13 (Singles and B-Sides)
    Tracks 14-18 (Shelter Demos)
    Tracks 19-20 (4 track demo)

Track Listing - Disc 2: (59:48 m:s)

1. Take Away Their Blue (3:58 m:s)
2. Crossing Of The Miles (3:39 m:s)
3. Of The Clay (3:20 m:s)
4. North To South (4:08 m:s)
5. The Flood Johanna (3:43 m:s)
6. There's A Turn (0:42 m:s)
7. Rosebed Baby (5:04 m:s)
8. Mercy How The Paths Getting Darker (3:59 m:s)
9. Pale Messenger (4:39 m:s)
10. Come Thursday Midnight (4:38 m:s)
11. Stroller In The Attic (3:29 m:s)
12. The Orchard (3:15 m:s)
13. The Flood Johanna (strings mix) (3:50 m:s)
14. Please Wait (3:39 m:s)
15. North to South (3:49 m:s)
16. Stranger In My Own Hometown (3:56 m:s)

    Tracks 1-11 (Kerosene)
    Tracks 12-13 (Single)
    Tracks 14-17 (Alternative mix and live)

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