(2006 Heavy Records)

Telluric is now available online at Chaos.

Telluric, the second album from Sydney band Night Radio is a gentle affair.

Recorded under the care of producer Tony Dupé, in his studios on the NSW South Coast, there is a hush within the ambience it creates which either serves to pull the listener in (to listen with wide open ears), or to prick the listener's subconcious by maintaining a distance, from which to haunt or pacify (rather like a creek at night in the Australian bush, some metres from an orange-lit weatherboard cottage, humming it's barely formed melodies beneath a full-pitched moon).

There are ten songs here that may well better your understanding of life in the rural and coastal areas of New South Wales. These songs are set in towns and on roads outside of Sydney, the city where most members of the band reside.

Why? Perhaps because as larger cities across the globe become more and more homogenised, there is something to be found in the more 'exotic' locales such as the mundane country town, or the south coast inlet where one may have once photographed a shell that originated in Africa......

TELLURIC: OF OR PERTAINING TO THE EARTH

There is a song on the album about a woman who has lost her husband in a car accident 'on a north coast highway driving in the rain'......it's not so much about the drama of the event, but the ensuing process of grieving, the coming to terms with the death of a loved one. The trauma of the event - the electricity contained within the shock - somehow needs to be earthed. This process is sometimes fast, but most times slow.

In trying to think of a title for this album, I realised that crisis, and the idea that people are searching for either transcendence or for the earth, to be grounded, is quite a central theme in my songs.

The songs on Telluric all seem to be about people who need to put down roots. They've probably all had electric shocks that need to be earthed and that's really all that needs to be said....

Darrell Archer, August '06

Telluric Review, SMH, Nov. 06