Home Improvements

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Home Improvements
Home Improvements cover
Studio album by My Friend the Chocolate Cake
Released 2007
Recorded Enormodome and Newmarket Studios, 2006
Genre Australian rock
Length 64:57
Label Liberation Music
Producer Tim Cole, David Bridie
Professional reviews

Sunday Herald Sun 4/5 stars4/5 stars4/5 stars4/5 stars4/5 stars
Sydney Morning Herald (favorable)
The Australian 3.5/5 stars3.5/5 stars3.5/5 stars3.5/5 stars3.5/5 stars
My Friend the Chocolate Cake chronology
Curious
(2002)		 Home Improvements
(2007)

Home Improvements is the sixth studio album by Melbourne band My Friend the Chocolate Cake. The album was released in 2007.

[edit] Track listing

(All lyrics by David Bridie, song arrangements by My Friend the Chocolate Cake)

  1. "Hymn for the Carnies" – 5:14
  2. "Home Improvements" – 3:42
  3. "She Dreams All Different Colours" – 4"07
  4. "Five Sisters" – 5:42
  5. "The Weather Coast" (music by Dean Addison, Bridie, Greg Patten) – 5:59
  6. "Pentecostal Girl" – 4:15
  7. "Opus Lagavulin" (music by Hope Csutoros, Helen Mountfort) – 4:20
  8. "Let's Go Walk This Town" – 4:11
  9. "Seek" – 4:40
  10. "The Forgotten Athletes of Persia" (music by Csutoros, Mountfort) – 3:53
  11. "John Patap" (music by Junior Devils Stringband, Bridie) – 2:46
  12. "Movement" (music by Mountfort, Addison) – 4:48
  13. "This Life Tonight" – 6:29
  14. "Malaise" – 4:44

[edit] Personnel

  • David Bridie - piano, singing, harmonium
  • Helen Mountfort - cello, backing vocals
  • Hope Csutoros - violin
  • Andrew Carswell - mandolin, tin whistle
  • Greg Patten - drums, ukelele, bvs
  • Dean Addison - double bass
  • Andrew Richardson - acoustic guitar

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