Something Beautiful* by Great Big Sea

Something Beautiful*, the sixth studio album from Newfoundland's Great Big Sea, reached Canadian shops on February 24, 2004, with the American release following on March 9, and it's the first record the band made without Darrell Power. Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Séan McCann carry on with Murray Foster now in the fold, and Michael Phillip Wojewoda produces for Warner Music Canada.

The band's trick has always been turning the island's old folk songs and sea shanties into rowdy rock, and here the originals get the same kitchen-party energy. "When I Am King" was the calling card: Doyle's song picked up East Coast Music Award nominations for Single, Video and Songwriter of the Year, part of five nods the album collected at the 2005 ECMAs, including Group of the Year. It became the band's fifth album to open in the Top 10 of the Canadian sales charts, and it led on to The Hard and the Easy.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.