This Delicate Thing We've Made
This Delicate Thing We've Made is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Darren Hayes. It is a double album that was released on his own label Powdered Sugar on 20 August 2007. The first single from the album, "On the Verge of Something Wonderful", was released in Australia on 28 July 2007 and in the UK and online on 6 August 2007.
Background
The album has been made with the help of a 1983 Fairlight CMI synthesizer, and the ex-Savage Garden frontman has said it is a cinematic and theatrical album. It reached number 5 on the Top Albums chart of the Australian iTunes store on the day of release and number 3 later in its first week. Hayes later said of the album in a 2011 interview that it "was my rebellious streak. It was a strange 25-song double album with only one or two songs that could be played on the radio. It was a bit sobering."[1]
Singles
- "Who Would Have Thought" was released with added animated video as a teaser on his official website, as well as his MySpace profile on 9 April 2007. This track was co-written with Guy Chambers. Around this time, remixes of the album track "Step into the Light" were being played in clubs around the world.
- "Step into the Light" was released as another teaser on his official website and MySpace profile. On 14 May 2007, Hayes released the animated video for "Step into the Light" on his website. Short clips of "On the Verge of Something Wonderful" and "Me, Myself and (I)" had also been made available on his website.
- "On the Verge of Something Wonderful" was released on 1 July 2007, and it was stated that the music video would debut the coming Tuesday.
- "Me, Myself and (I)" was revealed the album's second single in a blog entry on 4 August 2007.[2] On 25 September 2007, Darren Hayes revealed his new video for "Me, Myself and (I)". In addition to this, he released a video for his song "Words" one week prior which features someone's hands performing card tricks and eventually fusing all the cards to form a 2 of Hearts with the Origami crane from the cover of his album in the center of the card.
- Casey became the album's third and final single in March 2008, and was backed by a plethora of b-sides and remixes on various digital bundles, none of which featured the original version of the song. The partly animated music video was released in December 2007.
Charts
This Delicate Thing We've Made spent just two weeks in the Australian top 50 and the UK top 75: it entered the Australian Albums Top 50 at #19 before falling to #38 the following week, and entered the UK Album chart at #14 before falling to #72 the following week.[3]
Track listing
- All songs written by Darren Hayes and Robert B. Conley except where noted.
- "A Fear of Falling Under" (Hayes, Justin Shave) – 4:09
- "Who Would Have Thought" (Hayes, Guy Chambers) – 4:30
- "Waking the Monster" – 4:07
- "How to Build a Time Machine" – 5:51
- "Casey" (Hayes, Peter-John Vettese) – 6:26
- "Step into the Light" – 4:57
- "Sing to Me" (Hayes, Matthew Wilder) – 4:56
- "A Conversation with God" – 5:08
- "The Sun Is Always Blinding Me" (Hayes, Eg White) – 4:24
- "Listen All You People" – 5:00
- "The Only One" (Hayes, George Muranyi) – 3:42
- "Bombs Up in My Face" (Hayes, Shave) – 3:39
- "The Great Big Disconnect" – 4:17
- "The Future Holds a Lion's Heart" – 4:02
- "On the Verge of Something Wonderful" – 4:02
- "Neverland" (Hayes, Shave) – 4:03
- "Walk Away" (Hayes, Muranyi) – 4:46
- "Maybe" – 4:15
- "Me, Myself and (I)" – 4:05
- "Lucky Town" – 3:50
- "I Just Want You to Love Me" (Hayes) – 4:00
- "Setting Sun" (Hayes, Shave) – 4:12
- "A Hundred Challenging Things a Boy Can Do" – 5:01
- "Words" (Hayes, Stuart Brawley) – 4:34
- "The Tuning of Violins" (Hayes, Shave) – 4:30
- Demo Version Tracklisting
- "On the Verge of Something Wonderful"
- "Who Would Have Thought"
- "The Sun Is Always Blinding Me"
- "Walk Away"
- "The Only One"
- "Words"
- "I Just Want You to Love Me"
- "Slow Down"
- "Sing to Me"
- "Maybe"
- "Great Big Disconnect"
- "Song for the Disenfranchised"
- "Waking the Monster"
- "How to Build a Time Machine"
- "The Future Holds a Lion's Heart"
- "Tuning a Violin"
- "100 Challenging Things"
- "Casey"
- "Step into the Light"
- "Lucky Town"
- "Glad to See You Back Again"
- "Fairlight"
- "Anyone's Guess"
B-Sides
- "Love Is In Everything"
- "Fallen Angel"
- "Ocean"
- "God Is in the Room"
- "Let's Go"
- "Slow Down"
- "Every Little Thing"
- "Breathless"
- "The Only One" (Demo)
- "In Your Mother's Eyes"
- "The Wrong Way"
- "Casey" (Demo)
- "Walk Away" (Demo)
- "Words" (Demo)
Unreleased Tracks
- "I've Been There"
- "Mystery"
Chart performance
References