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Dumb Days

2017 album

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ48965931 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dumb Days is the debut studio album by Australian alternative rock band Tired Lion It was released through Dew Process and the Universal Music Group in September 2017. The album was produced by Violent Soho frontman Luke Boerdam. Australian radio station Triple J picked Dumb Days as their feature album of the week in September 2017. While the band didn't chart in the Hottest 100 of 2017, the first three singles charted in the Hottest 200 with Dumb Days, Fresh and Cinderella Dracula coming in at #185, #179 and #150 respectively.

Track listing

iTunes/Google Play/Spotify Edition

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Editorial summary

“Dumb Days” enters the record as 2017 album. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dumb, Days and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dumb, Days and album.
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Why this record matters

“Dumb Days” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dumb, Days and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q48965931. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Dumb Days” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.