The Official Fiction

The Official Fiction
Studio album by Something for Kate
Released 15 August 2003
Genre Alternative rock
Label Murmur
Producer Trina Shoemaker and Something for Kate
Something for Kate chronology
Echolalia
(2001)
The Official Fiction
(2003)
Phantom Limbs:Selected B-Sides
(2004)

The Official Fiction is the 4th studio album by Australian band Something for Kate. There was a limited run of digi-pack editions of this album upon first release. The album debuted at Number 1 on the ARIA charts and has sold over Platinum. It was nominated for 4 ARIA awards and took out Rolling Stone's Album of the Year and Single of the Year for "Déjà Vu". The first single lifted from the album "Déjà Vu" was very popular, and remains a staple of their live sets today. "Song For A Sleepwalker" and "Moving Right Along" were the other 2 singles released.

Track listing

  1. "Max Planck"
  2. "Best Weapon"
  3. "Song For A Sleepwalker"
  4. "Kaplan/Thornhill"
  5. "Light at the End of the Tunnel"
  6. "Letter to the Editor"
  7. "Déjà Vu"
  8. "Reverse Soundtrack"
  9. "Coldwater Canyon"
  10. "Souvenir"
  11. "Moving Right Along"
  12. "Asleep at the Wheel"
  13. "No Man's Land"

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
2003 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1
Preceded by
Vulture Street by Powderfinger
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
25 August - 31 August 2003
Succeeded by
Life for Rent by Dido