Cut by Hunters And Collectors

Cut, the seventh studio album from Melbourne's Hunters & Collectors, came out on White Label/Mushroom on 5 October 1992, with American producer Don Gehman steering most of it. "Where Do You Go" got there first: recorded with Nick Sansano and released in September 1991, before the Gehman sessions began, it was folded into the album anyway.

Mark Seymour sings like a man hauling an anchor, with Barry Palmer's lead guitar, John Archer's bass and Doug Falconer's drums as the heavy machinery and the horns of Jack Howard, Jeremy Smith and Michael Waters blowing big and brassy over the top. It's the polished, anthemic pub rock they'd been building toward since Human Frailty, and it threw off a stack of singles, "Head Above Water", "True Tears of Joy" and "Holy Grail" among them. It reached No. 6 in Australia and No. 17 in New Zealand, and the ARIAs nominated it for Album of the Year.

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