Song · Gang of Youths
“The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows” by Gang of Youths
From the album Go Farther in Lightness (2017)
“The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows” by Gang of Youths appears on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2017 and 2025. It was first released in 2017 on the album Go Farther in Lightness. Its best result is #5 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #90 alternative song of 2017.
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Gang of Youths put out "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows" on 9 August 2017, the fourth single from their second album, Go Farther in Lightness, and it's David Le’aupepe's show from top to bottom: he wrote the music and the words, sings lead and plays guitar and piano. Jung Kim adds guitar and keys, Joji Malani plays guitar, Max Dunn the bass and Donnie Borzestowski the drums, and Adrian Breakspear produced it with the band before Peter Katis mixed it into a widescreen, heart-on-sleeve rush.
It only scraped to 93 on the ARIA singles chart, but the song kept growing: triple j listeners voted it number 52 in their poll of the 2010s and number 87 among the best Australian songs, it was up for Rock Work of the Year at the 2019 APRA Awards, and Rolling Stone ranked it with the finest Australian songs of this century.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 52 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020) | 100 |
| 2025 | 87 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025) | 100 |
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