Distant Light (Alex Lloyd album)

Distant Light
Studio album by Alex Lloyd
Released	December 9, 2003
Genre	Rock
Label	EMI
Producer	Stuart Miller
Alex Lloyd chronology
Watching Angels Mend (2001) Distant Light (2003) Alex Lloyd (2005)
Singles from Distant Light
"Coming Home" Released: August 2003 "1000 Miles" Released: November 2003 "Beautiful" Released: April 2004 "Hello The End" Released: 2004

For The Hollies' album, see Distant Light (Hollies album); For the 2003 German film (original title Lichter), see Distant Lights

Distant Light (2003) (see 2003 in music) is the third album released by Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd. It has been certified platinum in Australia and had three top 40 singles taken from it.

The Making of Distant Light

On the Chaos Music website, Lloyd states that the album is based on homesickness after a long stretch on the road promoting his second album Watching Angels Mend. "That was the headspace of where I was at the time. We went to a lot of strange places, maybe places I don’t want to revisit. It was a pretty lonely time. I think I’d reached a point where I’d just travelled too much."

Distant Light features Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey of Midnight Oil on several tracks. It was produced by Stuart Miller, who had also produced Watching Angels Mend and mixed by Tony Hoffer who has worked with Air, Beck and Turin Brakes.

Chart success

Distant Light was also a success on the ARIA charts, with the album peaking at No. 9 on the Australian Charts and staying in the top fifty for 8 weeks. Three singles from the album charted - the first: "Coming Home" in August 2003, proved to be a successful single, peaking at No. 24 and remaining in the top fifty charts for 3 weeks. "Coming Home" became one of Lloyd's most well known songs and won him an ARIA for 'Best Male Artist' for a third time. The album's second single "1000 Miles" was released in November 2003, and peaked at No. 32, but only was in the top fifty for one week. However, Lloyd had success again when he released his third single, "Beautiful" in April 2004. "Beautiful" peaked at No. 30 on the Australian charts and remained in the top fifty for 4 weeks. The album also produced Lloyd's second moderately successful single in the UK. "Hello The End" was not a big hit in Australia, but gave Lloyd a single that entered the top No. 150 in the UK, doing better than "Amazing". "Hello The End" peaked in the UK at No. 146 respectively, 30 places higher than "Amazing".

The album, with its first single winning Lloyd an ARIA for 'Best Male Artist' in 2003, was also nominated in two categories at the ARIAs in 2004: 'Engineer of the Year' and again, 'Best Male Artist'. The album has been certified platinum in Australia.

Album Peaks

Album Name	Aus. Charts Peak	Weeks in Aus. Top 50
"Distant Light"	9	8

Single Peaks

Song Name	Aus. Charts Peak	Weeks in Aus. Top 50	UK Charts Peak
"Coming Home"	24	3	-
"1000 Miles"	32	1	-
"Beautiful"	30	4	-
"Hello The End"	-	-	146

Track listing

All tracks by Alex Lloyd

1. "Hello The End" – 3:53
2. "Distant Light" – 4:02
3. "Coming Home" – 3:06
4. "Far Away" – 4:20
5. "1000 Miles" – 3:02
6. "Save My Soul" – 3:56
7. "Ordinary Boy" – 4:12
8. "Beautiful" – 3:22
9. "This Is A Call" – 4:07
10. "Chasing The Sun" – 2:55
11. "Light Is On" – 3:45
12. "What's Wrong" – 3:49
13. "America" – 3:33

Personnel

• Michael Barker – percussion, drums
• Andrew Bickers – horn
• Felix Bloxom – percussion, drums
• Brent Clark – engineer
• Sam Dixon – bass
• George Ellis Choir – chorus
• Georgia Ellis – string copyist
• Brian "Big Bass" Gardener – mastering
• Barbara Griffin – keyboards, backing vocals
• Stuart Hunter – keyboards, horn arrangements
• Alex Hewitson – double bass
• Tony Hoffer – mixing
• Kinnon Holt – guitar
• Andrew Bickers - saxophone
• Anthony Kable – trombone
• Stewart Kirwan – trumpet
• Alex Lloyd – bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals, producer, horn arrangements, string arrangements
• Stuart Miller – producer
• Jim Moginie – guitar, keyboards
• Simon Moor – A&R
• Kim Moyes – vibraphone
• Shane Nicholson – guitar, backing vocals
• John O'Donnell – A&R
• Benny Quinn – creative director
• Terepai Richmond – percussion, drums
• Michel Rose – pedal steel
• Martin Rotsey – guitar
• Luke Steele – guitar
• Simon Weller – photography

References

^ Alex Lloyd at MySpace ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Alex Lloyd chart positions. Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 17 June 2007.

• Chaos Music track listing
• Chaos Music Alex Llloyd biography

External links

• Chaos Music track listing
• Chaos Music Alex Llloyd biography