"Beginner's Luck" is a single released by Australian

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. Released on December 13, 2017, the single was later released as the lead track on the album ''

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Background

In 2020 Michael Cavanagh said that the inspiration from the song came from

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, which Stu confirmed saying “it’s sad.” In 2022 Joey Walker joked that the band was working on a second song about gambling, titled "

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", but that Stu fell asleep before it could be finished.

Recording

"Beginner's Luck" was recorded at

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HQ and released as a single on December 12, 2017, alongside ''

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''. Two more singles from the album were also released, '' Greenhouse Heat Death'',and '' The Last Oasis''. The song became the opening track for ''Gumboot Soup'' which was released on December 31, 2017. Jason Galea, who designed the cover art, said that the art was a scrapped early draft of the cover for '' Murder of the Universe''.

Reception

The song was extensively played during their European Tour 2018 and included in '' Live in Asheville '19''; however, it fell out of the band's rotation shortly thereafter, with the song not being played since 2019. Described as "slower" and "

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", ''The Fire Note'' magazine noted that it fit tonally with Paper Mache Dream Balloon.

Notes

References

External links

Official Audio on YouTube
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