Torch the Moon by The Whitlams

Torch the Moon, The Whitlams' fifth studio album, came out in July 2002 on Black Yak through Warner, and it went all the way to number one on the ARIA Albums Chart before going platinum. It was the first studio record from the lineup that would define the band: Tim Freedman, the one constant, on keyboards and lead vocals, with Warwick Hornby on bass, Jak Housden on guitar and Terepai Richmond on drums, a unit that held together from 2001 until 2022.

Freedman had already lost two of his founding bandmates, Stevie Plunder in 1996 and Andy Lewis in 2000, and kept the band climbing anyway: Love This City had reached number three in 1999, and this one went two better. "Fall for You" was the single that carried it, matching "Blow Up the Pokies" as the band's highest-charting single at number 21. Little Cloud came next.

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