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Walls (Icehouse song)

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said "Icehouse's Iva Davies entreats the listener to once again enter the Australian band's world of densely textured synth-rock... The title is appropriate enough, as the quartet bursts from a heartbeat rhythm in to wall-like keyboard and guitar hook."
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Singles Charts. It was also released in New Zealand, with a different cover, which was the last release before the band was renamed as Icehouse.
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Iva Davies has said that Walls was autobiographical for a period of his life.
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NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until
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Index


Regular Records
Single
Flowers
Icehouse
B-side
Genre
Rock
synthpop
new wave
Label
Regular
Chrysalis
Songwriter(s)
Iva Davies
Producer(s)
Cameron Allan
Iva Davies
Flowers
We Can Get Together
Icehouse

single
rock band
Icehouse
Icehouse
Australian Kent Music Reoport
Cash Box magazine
Iva Davies
Kent Music Report

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