State of the Art

It is the first release by their newly founded record label, Golden Era Records. State of the Art was released on 12 June 2009. It is the first release to be made by the group since their ARIA Award winning album, The Hard Road, in 2006, and its remix album, The Hard Road: Restrung, which was released in 2007. The first track on the album, 'The Return' is about how long it had been since they last released an album. The first single, "Chase that Feeling", was released on 5 May 2009. The album debuted at number one on the Australian ARIA Charts and was certified Gold within a week of being released. The album has since gone Platinum and spent two weeks at number one. On 12 August 2010, the album officially reached 'Double Platinum' status. Hilltop Hoods have also been nominated for various ARIA Awards for the album, including 'Single of the Year' ("Chase That Feeling"), 'Best Urban Release', 'Engineer of the Year' (DJ Debris) and 'Producer of the Year' (Suffa). The album was certified double-platinum (sales over 140,000 copies) in Australia in August 2010.