Track listing

1. "Hanging by Strands" - 3:38
2. "Bonfire" - 3:13
3. "Sky-Blue Window" - 4:27
4. "Jailhouse 4.00am" - 4:00
5. "Feather Fell" - 3:33
6. "Perfect Day" - 4:09
7. "When I Fall" - 3:35
8. "Uncle Big Jaw's Late-Night Farewell" - 2:56
9. "Dunderhead" - 4:03
10. "Dawdling on the Bridge" - 3:29
11. "Writing on the Wall" - 3:39
12. "Reasons for Leaving" - 5:40
13. "Coming Back to You" - 4:05

Personnel

• Graeme Downes - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, vocals, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , oboe
  Oboe
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  , cheap shot cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  , mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Darren Stedman - Drums
  Drum kit
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• Russell Flemming - Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Paul Winders - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, backing vocals
• Stephen Small - Keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   on "Perfect Day" and "Dawdling on the Bridge"
• Kerrie Winders - Backing vocals on "Reasons for Leaving" and "Dunderhead"
• Tex Houston - Production
  Record producer
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  , engineer
  Audio engineering
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• Nick Rowan - Mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• John Collie
  John Collie (musician)
  John Collie is the former drummer for New Zealand band Straitjacket Fits. Collie was previously a member of Doublehappys with Shayne Carter,Eggleton , p. 108 a band which he had joined in 1984...
  
   - photography

Reviews

• Review at Kiwitapes
• Review by Keith McLachlan at Twee Kitten

External links

• The Verlaines at Trouser Press
• Over the Moon at Allmusic
• Over the Moon at Discogs