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Faker

On the surface, it appeared as if the Australian band Faker had a rather difficult time releasing a record, seeing as they formed in 1996 and didn't issue a debut album until 2005. The Sydney-based group remained busy during that nine-year period, however, weathering a storm of line-up changes (although the band's focal point, vocalist Nathan Hudson, remained firmly in place) and releasing two EPs in 2001, both of which gained a fair amount of airplay on the radio network Triple J. Faker's aforementioned debut full-length, 2005’s Addicted Romantic, was nominated for a J Award. Moreover, its single “Hurricane” scored the #21 spot on the Triple J Hottest 100 chart, 2005. But it was their second album, the Gold-certified Be the Twilight, that really sky-rocketed the band into the mainstream stratosphere. Produced by Paul Fox (who had worked with such artists as XTC and Björk), Be the Twilight was the band's first effort to break the Top 40 barrier, debuting at #37 on the Australian ARIA charts before climbing to #24. The album’s first single, “This Heart Attack”, featured on the ARIA charts for 40 weeks, took the #5 spot on the Triple J Hottest 100 chart, 2007, and won an APRA award for Most Played Australian Work. The tour to promote Be the Twilight saw the band playing to crowds of over one million people. Recently, Faker supported P!nk on her Australian tour. Faker are about to enter the studio to work on their third album.