The Tyranny of Distance (album)

The Tyranny of Distance
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 19, 2001
GenreIndie rock
Length48:51
LabelLookout!
ProducerBrendan Canty
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists chronology
tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists
(1999)
The Tyranny of Distance
(2001)
Hearts of Oak
(2003)

The Tyranny of Distance is the second album by American rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, released in 2001 by Lookout! Records. It was the group's first album as a full band, as their previous album tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists had been a solo effort by singer/guitarist Ted Leo. The album's title comes from a lyric in the Split Enz song "Six Months in a Leaky Boat", which the band later covered twice: first as a Leo solo on the EP Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead in 2003, and again as a full band on 2005's Sharkbite Sessions.