{{Distinguish|Spit shine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Spitshine | type = Album | artist = Urthboy | cover = Spitshine album cover.jpg | alt = | released = 28 August 2009 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Australian hip-hop | length = | label = Elefant Traks | producer = Angus Stuart (aka El Gusto), Phillip Norman (aka Count Bounce) | prev_title = The Signal | prev_year = 2007 | next_title = Smokey's Haunt | next_year = 2012 | misc = {{Singles | name = Spitshine | type = studio | single1 = Ready to Go | single1date = 17 July 2009 | single2 = Shruggin' | single2date = 2009 }} }}
'''''Spitshine''''' is the third studio album by Australian hip-hop artist and member of The Herd, Urthboy. It was released on 28 August 2009.<ref name="Elefant Traks">{{ cite web|url=http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=releases&releaseId=73|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914081726/http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=releases&releaseId=73|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 September 2009|title=Elefant Traks releases: Urthboy - Spitshine |publisher=Elefant Traks |accessdate=8 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesaria-charts-new-releases-aug09.htm |title=New Australian Releases|date=August 2009|publisher=ARIA|accessdate=8 March 2010}}</ref>
== Overview == The album was shortlisted for the 2009 Australian Music Prize, the second time Urthboy has been nominated, with ''The Signal'' being nominated in 2007.<ref name="SMH">{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/music/awards-nod-reaches-out-to-planet-urth/2010/02/14/1266082213107.html|title=Awards nod reaches out to planet Urth|last=Zuel|first=Bernard|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|date=15 February 2010|accessdate=8 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/music/only-one-rock-act-in-nine-nominations-for-australian-music-prize/story-e6frexl9-1225830234621 |title=Only one rock act in nine nominations|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|last= Braithwaite |first=Alyssa|date=14 February 2010|accessdate=8 March 2010}}</ref>{{blockquote|I don't have any grand expectations so the fact that I am a nominee, I can very genuinely say, is my little victory.|Tim Levinson<ref name="SMH"/>}}
The first song lifted from the album was "Hellsong", was released as a free download from Urthboy's official website, in May 2009. The video for the song is composed of more than 7,000 hand-drawn images and animated in Sydney, Christchurch, London, Hungary and Oslo. It was directed by Brendan Doyle and produced by Navid Bahadori, for Broken Yellow.<ref name="Broken Yellow">{{cite web |url=http://www.brokenyellow.com/mvideos/mvideos.html |title=Broken Yellow Music Videos |accessdate=8 March 2010}}</ref> Broken Yellow were also the production company behind The Herd's video "I Was Only Nineteen".<ref name="Broken Yellow" /> The video was selected as 'Indie Clip on the Week' on Rage. The second single, "Ready to Go", was released 17 July 2009. The video for which was directed by James Hackett and produced by Kala Ellis from Hackett Films. The video for a third song, "Shruggin", featuring Jane Tyrell (also a member of The Herd), was released in November 2009.
==Track listing== {{tracklist | all_writing = Tim Levinson and Phillip Norman unless otherwise indicated<ref name="APRA">{{cite web |url=http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch&switchDet=Y |title=Australasian Performing Right Association |publisher=APRA |accessdate=8 March 2010}}</ref> | headline = Spitshine | title1 = 'Til They Snatch This Last Page | writer1 = Tim Levinson, Angus Stuart<ref name="APRA"/> | length1 = 3:31 | title2 = Spitshine | writer2 = Tim Levinson, Angus Stuart<ref name="APRA"/> | length2 = 4:13 | title3 = Served | note3 = | length3 = 3:29 | title4 = Ready to Go | note4 = featuring Nat Dunn | length4 = 3:42 | title5 = Hellsong | writer5 = Tim Levinson, Angus Stuart, Luke Dubber<ref name="APRA"/> | length5 = 3:59 | title6 = Shruggin | note6 = featuring Jane Tyrell | writer6 = Tim Levinson, Phillip Norman, Jane Tyrell<ref name="APRA"/> | length6 = 4:01 | title7 = Above the Canopy | writer7 = Tim Levinson, Angus Stuart, Luke Dubber<ref name="APRA"/> | length7 = 4:33 | title8 = Don't Sideline Me | note8 = featuring Lior | writer8 = Tim Levinson, Angus Stuart, Luke Dubber, Lior Attar<ref name="APRA"/> | length8 = 4:03 | title9 = Usher in the Cool | note9 = featuring Mark Pearl | length9 = 5:05 | title10 = Impossible Story | note10 = | length10 = 5:37 | title11 = Them Shackles | note11 = featuring Jane Tyrell and Solo | writer11 = Tim Levinson, Angus Stuart<ref name="APRA"/> | length11 = 3:43 | title12 = Fight Fire | note12 = featuring Nay and Mantra | writer12 = Tim Levinson, Phillip Norman, Rob Tremlett, Joel Wenitong<ref name="APRA"/> | length12 = 4:37 | title13 = 2000 and Whatever | writer13 = Tim Levinson, Phillip Norman, Angus Stuart<ref name="APRA"/> | length13 = 2:22 }}
==Charts== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+Chart performance for ''Spitshine'' !scope="col"|Chart (2009) !scope="col"|Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"|Australian Albums (ARIA)<ref>{{cite Ryan|page=290}}</ref> |align="center"|54 |}
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