SONG OF THE DAY

“Walk It Off” by Angus & Julia Stone (Down The Way, EMI Music Australia, 2010). Written by Angus & Julia Stone.

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– Down the Way is the second full-length album by Australian singer-songwriter duo Angus & Julia Stone.

– The album debuted at #1 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums chart and is now Triple platinum in Australia and Platinum France.

– The physical CD release (including an untitled bonus track appended to track 13) was released in two formats: standard CD jewel case or deluxe version with gold embossed text on a ribbon-tied, peach-coloured, fabric covered digipak hard-book which includes the additional Red Berries bonus disc & a 20 page lyric book. Red Berries is a collection of bonus tracks from the previous EP’s and includes one previously unreleased track “This Way”.

– Angus & Julia Stone are a brother-sister duo from Newport, New South Wales on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia.

– Their mother and father were both musical – they learned many songs from their father’s cover band, Backbeat. At very young ages, they were introduced to music by their father who made them join his school band. Julia played the trumpet, Angus the trombone and their older sister, Catherine, the saxophon.

– As travelling has been an integral part of the Stones’ musical story, they opted to record the album in a number of diverse locations around the globe – an old sawmill on the river banks of Fowey, Cornwall, a studio in Brooklyn, a water tank in Coolangatta, Queensland and in Queens, New York.

– Angus and Julia began to collaborate on their musical endeavours in early 2006. Prior to that, both performed as solo artists, principally at open mic nights, but with each using the other as a backing partner.

– In terms of composing material, they write on their own, then work together on structure and harmonies.

– Both Angus and Julia have distinctive vocal styles. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Bernard Zuel described their vocals as such: “Her voice has a fractured feel like Jolie Holland; his has a smoke-on-the-beach drawl.”

– In an interview with Rolling Stone, the duo confirmed they were already writings songs for their third album with Angus stating “I want to write stuff that makes me wanna move, more groove-based stuff”.

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