Venus Returning Explained

Venus Returning
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Mavis's
Cover:	Venus Returning.jpg
Released:	20 May 1996^[1]
Recorded:	Sing Sing Studios
Genre:	Indie rock
Label:	Mushroom
Producer:	Kalju Tonuma, The Mavis's
Next Title:	Pink Pills
Next Year:	1998

Venus Returning is the debut studio album by Australian pop band The Mavis's, released in May 1996 by record label Mushroom.^[1] It was produced by Kalju Tonuma (Nick Barker). Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described how it "highlighted the band's brash sound, which mixed the Thomas siblings' idiosyncratic, imperfect vocal blend, crashing guitars, sugar-frosted melodies, goofy keyboard embellishments and odd instrumentation (sitar, Tibetan bells and Indian banjo)." "Thunder" was listed on the national youth radio Triple J audience poll, Hottest 100 of 1996, at No. 92. The album peaked at No. 76 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart.

Track listing

"Moon Drone Gold" – 3:10
"Thunder" – 3:32
"Box" – 3:59
"Giant" – 3:32
"Do You Have a Brother?" – 2:54
"Supa*Star" – 3:28
"See-Saw" – 3:06
"The Land That Time Forgot" – 2:59
"Sleep" – 2:51
"Lost" – 3:55
"Ribcage" – 3:53
"Ghosts of the Night" – 3:09

Charts

Chart (1996)!align="left"
Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[2]	76

Notes and References

Web site: New Releases – Product Available from: 20/5/96 (from The ARIA Report No. 326). Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). 24 June 2018.
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