Pollyanna - Delta City Skies (1999, Mushroom)

My previous Pollyanna features seamed to to make a big impression on a lot of you, so I thought I'd up yet another out of print album from this Australia trio, who never really had a shot outside of their continent. I've always been a big proponent of Pollyanna's second LP, Hello Halo, rife with impassioned fury and Matt Handley's visceral songcraft. The preceding Longplayer was a keeper as well, though it couldn't quite foretell the corker that was waiting in the wings just one year later. At any rate, Delta City Skies landed two years on the heels of Hello..., and though it doesn't always bear the bittersweet incisiveness and alt-rawk crunch and moxie of that album, Delta finds Pollyanna settling into a more mature modus operendi, without any austere ennui. In other words another winner, though I can't say their swan song, 200o's, Didn't Feel a Thing was nearly as endearing.

Yes, mine is a signed copy, for better or worse.

01. S.S.A.E.
02. Black Bear
03. Feeding Circle
04. In Love With Doubt
05. Home Is Where My Heart Sank
06. Office Relations
07. Hermit Inertia
08. Disclaimer
09. Vanilla Coated Salesman
10. Frayed
11. Cicada Sounds
12. Crave the Comfort You Give

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