Darkside Paper Trails

States is the evocative debut album from Melbourne five-piece The Paper Kites. Throughout States there's nods to Simon & Garfunkel and Dylan (stripped down duet "Never Heard A Sound"); energetic pop odes to angry individualists ("Young"); vocal layers and musings on mortality ("Gates"); and rough and messy rock ("A Lesson From Mr Gray"). The band collaborated with director Natasha Pincus (Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know") to deliver the magical music videos for singles "St Clarity" and "Young."

"Talking Book" is the 15th studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972, on the Tamla label for Motown Records. The album is widely noted for being the signal recording of Wonder's "classic period". The sound of the album is sharply defined by Wonder's keyboard work, especially with the synthesizers he incorporated. His use of the Hohner clavinet model C on "Superstition" is widely regarded as one of the definitive tracks featuring the instrument.

"Wrap Around Joy" is the 6th album by American singer and songwriter Carole King, released in 1974. The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in late 1974 and spun off successful singles with "Jazzman", reaching #2 on the Pop chart and earning Carole King a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in the 17th Grammy Awards (the award went to Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You"). Another song from the album, "Nightingale", reached #9 on the Pop chart and #6 on the Adult contemporary chart. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA.

"Midnight Love" is the 17th studio album by Marvin Gaye. He signed with the label Columbia in March 1982 following his exit from Motown. The final album to be released before his death, it ultimately became the most successful album of Gaye's entire career. The disc was certified triple Platinum in the United States, selling well over six million copies worldwide. It was nominated for a 1984 Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, spawning the two-time Grammy Award-winning smash, "Sexual Healing". It was ranked #37 on the Rolling Stone list of the best albums of the 1980s decade and the NME named the album as its Album of the Year in 1983.

"You Know How to Love Me" is the 4th album by American soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman. It was released by Arista Records in 1979, and produced by James Mtume & Reggie Lucas. Writing in Smash Hits, Bev Hillier described "You Know How to Love Me" as a "great album" that was "relaxing, pleasant, easy listening and anything similar that you can think of". Hillier went on to describe Hyman's voice as "amazing and perfectly used".

After a second album with disappointing sales, Holmes was summoned by the Epic brass. “Just give me singles,” they told him. So, he gave them Singles. He consciously wrote the album with the Top 40 in mind, and if the songs lacked some of the specificity of his work on the previous two LPs, they were no less clever and memorable. “Who, What, When, Where, Why” would become one of his most-recorded songs, with Dionne Warwick, The Tymes and Manhattan Transfer all having a crack at it. “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” was intended to be a Four Seasons tribute, and if that doesn’t quite come across except in the streetwise lyrics, it’s still pure Holmes-style seventies pop/rock with its insistent chorus (“I don’t want to get over you/Don’t want to no happy endin’/I feel better pretendin’ we ain’t through”) and airy, reflective verses.

The Hallmarks are a corporate entertainment covers band who perform all-Aussie hit parade songs.

"Rhymes & Reasons" is a 1972 album by American singer-songwriter Carole King. The album features a single "Been to Canaan", which topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at #24 on the Pop chart. The album itself also became a hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard 200 chart.