Dilettantes (album)

Dilettantes
Studio album by
Released13 September 2008
Recorded2008
GenreRock
LabelVirgin Records
ProducerGreg Wales
You Am I chronology
Convicts
(2006)
Dilettantes
(2008)
You Am I
(2010)

Dilettantes is the eighth studio album by the Australian rock band You Am I, released on 13 September 2008.[1] It was recorded at Electric Avenue Studios in Sydney and Sing Sing South in Melbourne before being mixed at Studios 301 in Sydney.[2] The first single, "Erasmus", was premiered on Triple J radio on Dools & Linda's show on 6 August, and was released on iTunes along with the album's title track as a downloadable single on 6 September. Video clips were released in November for "Beau Geste" and "Givin' Up And Gettin Fat" to be released as radio/iTunes singles.

The title track, "Dilettantes", was previewed as streaming audio on The Vine from 30 July 2008.[3]

The iTunes Plus release includes a bonus video of live footage from a 1998 gig at the Budokan, supporting Soundgarden, on the #4 Record tour.

Songwriter Tim Rogers said of the album, "I think I'm as proud of that as I am of anything we've ever done."[4]

  1. ^ Music Games DVDs at JB HIFI Australia
  2. ^ "You Am I – Music – Time Out Sydney". Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
  3. ^ "First taste of You Am I's 'Dilettantes' – Music | thevine.com.au". Archived from the original on 4 August 2008. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  4. ^ Dan Condon. "No Struggle, No Progress". Time Off (24 November 2010). Fortitude Valley, QLD: Street Press Australia Pty Ltd: 17.