Close Enough

Close Enough is the ninth studio album by American band Bulla, released in May 2008.

Contrary to previous album, Resilience is Futile, that had upbeat lyrical themes on some songs, Close Enough contained dark and serious lyrical themes including murder, depression, drug addiction and suicide.

Track listing
All songs written by John Langley, except where noted.


 * 1) "Lens" - 3:19
 * 2) "Somewhat Psycho" (Jim Hewitt, J. Langley) - 2:51
 * 3) "Murder" - 3:50
 * 4) "Cry of the Depressed Candace" ( J. Hewitt) - 2:28
 * 5) "Heroin" - 3:38
 * 6) "Nevermore" - 3:15
 * 7) "Whiskey River" - 2:38
 * 8) "Hell Station" - 3:50
 * 9) "Death Will Wait" - 2:35
 * 10) "Tangled" - 4:28
 * 11) "Brain Damage" (Bill Lawrence, J. Langley, Mike Sullivan, Stanley Miller) - 3:55
 * 12) "Shame on Me" - 5:33
 * 13) "Untitled" - 8:28
 * 14) "Wasteland" (B. Lawrence, J. Hewitt, J. Langley, M. Sullivan, S. Miller ) - 7:04

Personnel

 * Bulla
 * Jim Hewitt: drums
 * John Langley: lead (3, 5, 7, 12) and background (2, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14) vocals, electric bass (1–3, 5–8, 10–14), synth bass (4, 9, 14) , acoustic piano (5) , Zippo lightbulb (9) , steel drum (10) , production, engineering, photography
 * Bill Lawrence: acoustic (12, 13), electric (1–3, 5–10, 14) and pedal steel (11) guitars, banjo (6) , dobro (8, 13) , bass (14) , background vocals (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14)
 * Stanley Miller: lead (2, 6, 8, 10, 13) and background (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14) vocals, guitars (1, 3, 5–14), xylophone (4) , piano (13)
 * Mike Sullivan: lead (1, 9, 11, 14) and background (4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13) vocals, keyboards (1, 4, 6, 8, 9 10, 11, 14), Hammond organ (3, 7, 8, 12) , electric piano (5, 8, 10, 13) , synthesizers (9, 11) , vibraphone (13) , photography


 * Production
 * Bob Clearmountain: mixing
 * Brian Gardner: mastering