Deeper Water


Deeper Water, the tenth studio album by Paul Kelly, was released on 12 September 1995 on White Label Records in Australia and on Vanguard Records in North America. It peaked at No. 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart and provided his second consecutive nomination as Best Male Artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 1996. In New Zealand Deeper Water reached No. 30 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart. Kelly issued its lead single, "Give in to My Love", in October 1995 and followed with "Deeper Water" later that year.

Background

started recording his tenth studio album, Deeper Water, in September 1994. Two months earlier he had released his previous studio album, Wanted Man, which includes a track co-produced and co-written with Randy Jacobs. For Deeper Water, Kelly and Jacobs co-wrote the title track; and they produced and wrote two further tracks, "Extra Mile" and "I've Been a Fool". Kelly used Kerryn Tolhurst as producer for "Difficult Woman" and co-produced with him on "Give in to My Love". A third co-producer, Simon Polinski, worked on a track, "Gathering Storm", which Kelly had co-written with Mart Saarelaht. All the other tracks were produced by Kelly; for the album he used the Platinum and Periscope Studios in Melbourne.
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Reception

The Canberra Times Sharon Palmer noticed that "No real surprises or sounds appear on Deeper Water, however a number of songs are notable for the absence of back-up singers on them with Kelly providing all the vocals." William Ruhlmann of AllMusic opined that Kelly used "a more consistent musical style than he had employed on Wanted Man." Ruhlmann continued "most of the songs had folk-rock arrangements, and most concerned romantic subjects, within which Kelly's primary concerns were lust and betrayal."
Mark Mordue writing in The Sydney Morning Herald felt that "the songs from Deeper Water have become part of our lives" displaying Kelly's "poet of the common man credentials are built on both good writing and accuracy." Mordue expanded by describing its "take on family, growing older and love also has a dark edge to it, something in the territory around the songs, that gives the album an unusual intensity and warmth."
Deeper Water peaked at No. 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart and provided his second consecutive nomination as Best Male Artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 1996. In New Zealand Deeper Water reached No. 30 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart. Neither of the singles, "Give in to My Love" and "Deeper Water", appeared on the ARIA Singles Chart top 100.

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