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Beautiful Sharks
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Beautiful Sharks is the second album by Australian band

Something for Kate, released in 1999. It marked a change
in musical direction for the band, employing interesting
and unconventional chord progressions and production.
Sounding more sparse and open than their intense debut
effort, the album produced four singles: "Electricity",
"Whatever You Want", "The Astronaut" and "Hallways".
It also had a limited edition release as a two-CD package,
with multimedia content on the second disc. The album
was nominated for Best Adult Alternative Album in the
2001 ARIA Music Awards.[1]

Beautiful Sharks

It was the first album recorded with bass player Stephanie

Ashworth, although some b-sides released at the time
were from recording sessions with Toby Ralph on bass.
Explaining the album title, frontman and songwriter Paul
Dempsey said: "I guess the reason I put the two words
together it because the shark is an animal that is both
beautiful and graceful, but it will turn around and bite
you. The theme of the album has a lot to do with humans
and the technology we've created and where we're
heading. It's beautiful, it's wonderful what we've created
for ourselves, but it is going to turn around and bite us."[2]

Studio album by Something for Kate

Released

7 June 1999

Recorded

Sing Sing Studios, Hothouse Studios

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

48:55

Label

Murmur

Producer

Brian Paulson

Something for Kate chronology

He said the first single, "Electricity", was about energy: "I

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wish sometimes that I was a pulse of energy I'm
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Dean Martin
always moving too fast for myself. Nothing's happening
(1997)
(1999)
(2000)
quick enough for me, I've always got about 500 things
that I want to be doing. That's the thing behind
'Electricity'I want to anticipate things before they happen. It's about movement and energy and speed,
wanting to be a pulse of energy rather than being constrained by physics and flesh and bone."[2]

Track listing
(All songs by Something for Kate)
1. "Whatever You Want" 3.53
2. "Hallways" 3:03
3. "Beautiful Sharks" 3:57
4. "Electricity" 3:50
5. "Big Screen Television" 4:33
6. "The Astronaut" 3:42
7. "Easy" 4:26
8. "Slowdance" 4:35
9. "Before Butterfly's Wings" 4:23
10. "Anchorman" 4:54
11. "Back to You" 3:57

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12. "Photograph" 3:38

Personnel
Paul Dempsey - guitars, vocals
Stephanie Ashworth - bass
Clint Hyndman - drums
Glenn Richards - backing vocals ("Whatever You Want")
Gareth Skinner - strings ("Slowdance")

References
1. ARIA Awards Best Adult Alternative Album winners (http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/award/best-adultalternative-album)
2. Kingsmill, Richard (2002). The J Files Compendium. Sydney: ABC Books. pp. 2756. ISBN 0-7333-1066-4.

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