| Marvellous Year | ||||
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| Studio album by Don McGlashan | ||||
| Released | March 2, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | July 2007 to October 2008 | |||
| Studio | Roundhead Studios, Auckland | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 48:21 | |||
| Label | Arch Hill Recordings | |||
| Producer | Don McGlashan and Sean Donnelly | |||
| Don McGlashan chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| New Zealand Herald |   [1] |
| Sunday Herald Sun | [2] |
| The Courier-Mail |  [3] |
| Allmusic | [4] |
Marvellous Year is a 2009 album by New Zealand songwriter Don McGlashan and The Seven Sisters.
The album was recorded at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios in Auckland, and featured Finn on backing vocals on two tracks, "18th Day" and "C2006P1 (Make Yourself at Home)".
The title is drawn from a line in the Allen Curnow poem "The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch":
"Not I, some child, born in a marvellous year,
Will learn the trick of standing upright here."[5]
"Bathe in the River" had appeared originally on the soundtrack to the film No. 2, where it had been sung by Hollie Smith. The song won the APRA Silver Scroll in 2006. The closing track, "The Colossus of Roadies", is from a stage show McGlashan worked on with Toa Fraser, director of No. 2.
- ^ Russell Baillie, New Zealand Herald, 11 March 2009
- ^ Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun, 12 July 2009
- ^ Matt Connors, The Courier-Mail, 13 August 2009
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Cowdrey, Alice (7 May 2009). "Don's anchor". The Nelson Mail. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2011.