Another album track, "Great Palaces of Immortal Splendour" was used on The Heartbreak Kid (1993) soundtrack. It was also used on the soundtrack of the Australian feature film, Reckless Kelly (1993).
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one that ultimately fails to convey the depth suggested by the new age themes and multicultural music." A single from the album, "From a Million Miles" (November 1991), was used in the pilot episode (April 1994) of Canadian TV series, Due South, and was issued on the series second soundtrack album, Due South, Volume II: The Original Television Soundtrack (1998). Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt it was "a unique blend of lush, mellow dance grooves, ethnic sampling and fragile, beguiling female vocals." AllMusic's Brendan Swift opined that it provided "Flawlessly executed tracks brushed with Indian, Turkish, and South-East Asian sounds. It peaked in the topĀ 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Single Gun Theory reconvened in Vancouver, Canada in May 1991 to record their second album, Millions, Like Stars in My Hands, Daggers in My Heart, Wage War, which was issued in Australia in December. While they were in hiatus Hunt and Rivett-Carnac travelled to Asia and Europe, Power completed a psychiatric therapy course in Sydney. By that time Rivett-Carnac joined Severed Heads' touring line-up for that group's North American tour and Single Gun Theory went into hiatus.
Exorcise This Wasteland was issued in Australia by Volition Records in the following year. The band had been brought to the label's attention by fellow Australian, Tom Ellard (of Severed Heads). This resulted in their debut album, Exorcise This Wasteland, which was issued by the Canadian label Nettwerk in 1987. They won a band competition run by national radio station, Double J, which provided free studio recording time.
Single Gun Theory were formed in 1986 in Sydney by Jacqui Hunt on lead vocals Kath Power on vocal melodies and synthesiser and Peter Rivett-Carnac on guitar, synthesiser and sampling.