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) "Little by Little" - 4:51
 * 10) "Tangled" - 4:28
 * 11) "Brain Damage" (Bill Lawrence, J. Langley, Mike Sullivan, Stanley Miller) - 3:55
 * 12) "Where They Are?" (Langley, Kevin Sullivan) - 5:33
 * 13) "Hallucinogenic Overdrive" - 8:28
 * 14) "Wasteland" (B. Lawrence, B. Rosenberg, J. Hewitt, J. Langley, M. Sullivan,) - 7:04

Personnel

 * Bulla
 * Jim Hewitt: drums (all), percussion (4)
 * John Langley: lead (3, 5, 7, 12) and background (2, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14) vocals, electric bass (all but 4), synth bass (4, 14) , percussion (4) , acoustic piano (5) , Zippo lightbulb (9) , steel drum (10) , production, engineering, photography
 * Bill Lawrence: acoustic (13), electric (1–3, 5–10, 14) , slide (12) and pedal steel (11) guitars, mandolin (12) , marimba and percussion (4) , banjo (6) , dobro (8, 13) , bass (14) , background vocals (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14)
 * Brian Rosenberg: lead (2, 6, 8, 10, 13) and background (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14) vocals, guitars (1, 3, 5–14), percussion (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) , Baldwin piano (12) , synthesizers (9, 11) , vibraphone (13) , photography


 * Additional musicians
 * Ana Lenchantin: cello on "Hell Station"
 * Kevin Sullivan: acoustic piano and vibraphone on "Where They Are?"
 * The McCrary Sisters: background vocals on "Where They Are?"
 * West Australian Symphonic Orchestra: strings on "Where They Are?"


 * Production
 * Howard Bullivant: engineering
 * Bob Clearmountain: mixing
 * Brian Gardner: mastering