Ahead of a new Daniel Johns solo album, we celebrate one of Australia’s most successful bands – retired, remarkably, when they were all just 27
ilverchair are arguably one of the most successful Australian bands of all time. With five albums spanning 12 years, all of which crashed into the charts at No 1, 8m international sales and 21 Aria wins, they certainly have the statistics to compete. Musically, each album represented a vast sonic leap from the last – testament to frontman Daniel Johns’ exploratory nature, the band’s musical dexterity, and the whims and fads of youth; when Silverchair retired, they were all only 27.
One of the very best moments from Diorama, albeit an often overlooked one, World Upon Your Shoulders opens with a sun-drenched country riff, stutters during halting verses, then opens up into the most gorgeous, life-affirming chorus on the entire album. This song is only hampered by a lyric that reads like a placeholder: “Violent, big and violent / you’re like a thing that’s big and violent.” Indeed.
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