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| Released | 30 October 2020 | |||
| Studio | Rancom Street Studios, Oceanic Studios (Sydney) | |||
| Length | 33:31 | |||
| Label | Sony | |||
| Producer | Warne Livesey | |||
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The Makarrata Project is the twelfth studio album by Australian band Midnight Oil, released on 30 October 2020 by Sony Music Australia. The album is the first new material from the band since 2002's Capricornia, their first studio album to hit #1 on the ARIA Charts since 1990's Blue Sky Mining,[2] and one of the final releases to feature bassist and backing vocalist Bones Hillman before his death in November 2020.[3]
At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, the album was nominated for Album of the Year, Best Group and Best Rock Album.[4]
- ^ "New single 'First Nation' music video". midnightoil. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ "Midnight Oil return for fifth ARIA Charts #1 album". Aria Chart.
- ^ "Midnight Oil's Bones Hillman dies, aged 62". The Australian. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ Kelly, Vivienne (20 October 2021). "ARIA Awards nominees revealed: Amy Shark & Genesis Owusu lead the charge". The Music Network. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.