All Souls Alive is the second studio album by Australian rock band The Blackeyed Susans. The album was released in December 1993 on the independent record label, Torn and Frayed, and was distributed by Shock Records. The album was released in the United States by Frontier Records on 29 April 1994. Two singles lifted off the album were released in Australia in July 1994, "Dirty Water" and "This One Eats Souls".

Content and history

The album features ten tracks, eight penned by Phil Kakulas and David McComb, as well as the Leonard Cohen/Phil Spector classic "Memories" and a version of the Johnny Paycheck song "Apartment No 9". All Souls Alive was released in America on Frontier Records in April 1994. The album was also released in the UK, Greece, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Italy and Sweden in July 1994. The album got great reviews in the UK press and airplay on Radio One.

Reception

Graham Lee said of the album, "You couldn't describe it as a sunny record, I don't think anyone would've been expecting that. But there's a willingness to experiment."

Track listing

All written tracks by Phil Kakulas and David McComb unless otherwise indicated.

Personnel