“Big Jet Plane” by Angus and Julia Stone

Angus and Julia Stone put "Big Jet Plane" on Down the Way, their second album, in 2010, but the song had already lived once: Angus first cut it on his own in 2009, under the alias Lady of the Sunshine, for his album Smoking Gun. The siblings re-recorded it as a duo, and it went out as the album's third single in May 2010.

The new version drifts along like a sun-warmed daydream, Glen Absolum's drums ticking under a small string section: Louisa Fuller and Sally Herbert on violin, John Metcalfe on viola, Chris Worsey on cello. The pair produced it with Govinda Doyle as co-producer, and Kieran Kelly mixed it. It won Single of the Year at the 2010 ARIA Awards and went platinum, and Triple J listeners kept faith with it, voting it ninth when they counted down the whole decade.

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