Strange Bird by Augie March

Strange Bird, Augie March's second studio album, first came out in Australia on 14 October 2002 and got a second life in the US in September 2004 through spinART. Sunset Studies had done well enough (Triple J listeners voted it one of the best records of 2000), and rather than repeat it, the band from Shepparton, Victoria went bigger: the mellow drift of the debut gives way to something wider-screen and more direct.

It's Glenn Richards' show as songwriter, his poetic, knotty lyrics and complex vocals set against arrangements that run intricate, lush and dense, with Adam Donovan on lead guitar. Critics in Australia and the US both lauded it. "This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers" is the song that carried it onto the countdowns, and Moo, You Bloody Choir came next.

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