SUNDIRTWATER is an album born of time and distance. The geographic space between the singer/songwriters Donna Simpson, Vikki Thorn and Josh Cunningham and the long hiatus since their last radio triumph, UP ALL NIGHT, created a kind of vacuum that these songs could hardly wait to fill. On their fifth studio album, The Waifs reach a new benchmark of worldly electicism, unaffected heart and soul that's made them one of Australia's most loved and admired musical exports of this century.