Various Artists' Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb Vol. 1
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As singer-songwriter for The Triffids, David McComb wrote what is now considered one of the greatest Australian albums, Born Sandy Devotional (1986), but after the band''s breakup, labored in relative obscurity until his death in 1999.
A Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb, vol. 1 (2020) was written by McComb before his untimely death and later recorded by friends and musical collaborators, including Graham Lee, Rob McComb, Romy Vager, Rob Snarski, Angie Hart, JP Shilo, Alex Gow, Simon Breed, and Lenore Stephens.
This book examines the ways the album echoes McComb''s stylistic and thematic obsessions, including that which Glenn D''Cruz classifies as a "hauntological aesthetic," while generating important questions about the relationship between popular music and memory, time and death. Jacques Derrida''s concept of hauntology - the revisiting of social and cultural elements of the past - is used to unpack the album''s structure and composition. Alongside themes of ghosts, past lives, and haunting, the book discusses what, if any, ethical considerations can and should be made in the curation of the work and legacies of deceased artists.
David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia’s most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band’s breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He died in 1999, age 36.
Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David McComb Vol. 1 (2020) revives his final, unrecorded songs through the efforts of longtime collaborators, friends and admirers, including Graham Lee, Robert McComb, Phil Kakulas, Rob Snarski, JP Shilo, Romy Vager and Angie Hart.
The book traces how McComb’s last songs extend his thematic preoccupations—love, loss, exile and the lingering pull of the past—through the framework of hauntology. Engaging with the ideas of Jacques Derrida and Mark Fisher, it places his songwriting in a broader cultural and philosophical landscape before turning to his lost compositions, revealing an artist still in full command of his craft. Exploring connections between music, memory and artistic legacy, D’Cruz positions McComb as not only a singular songwriter, but a literary voice of lasting significance.
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