The Go by Skunkhour

The Go, released in May 2001, was the fourth and last studio album from Sydney funk-rockers Skunkhour, and it very nearly didn't get made. Sony had dropped them in 1998, wiping out a European tour, and after Chin Chin fell short of their hopes the band spent a year and a half drifting, scrapping 15 songs and wondering whether to carry on at all. Then "Home", put out on their own in 1999 as a test balloon, went over well enough to change their minds.

They produced the record themselves, cutting and mixing it wherever they could: kitchens, studios, and INXS bassist Garry Gary Beers' place at Mangrove Mountain on the New South Wales Central Coast, all before Universal signed them. Aya Larkin's vocals ride the melodic, loose-limbed funk-rock the band had settled into, and "Gold Radiation" and "Kick in the Door" followed "Home" out as singles; Triple J listeners voted both "Home" and "Kick in the Door" into the Hottest 100. Universal, in upheaval, barely pushed it, and by November 2001 Skunkhour had called it a day.

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