 Powderfinger started recording their sixth studio album , Dream Days at the Hotel Existence , in January 2007 , which was released on 2 June . Debuting at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart – their fourth to do so consecutively – it broke the Australian digital sales record with over 3000 copies sold online . Generally reviewers did not rate it as highly as its predecessor , Vulture Street , with Cameron Adams of the Herald Sun HiT describing it as " No radical reinvention , no huge change in direction ... In a word : consistent " . Zuel described it as " Powderfinger 's first dull album " but the band as " the biggest rock band in the country . " " Lost and Running " , their first single for three years , had been issued in May , and reached No. 5 . A second single , " I Don 't Remember " , appeared in August . A song from the album , " Black Tears " , was amended following concerns that it could prejudice a trial over the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case . Fanning stated that an alternative version would be on the album as a result of the concerns . On 18 August that year , Powderfinger performed a concert in Karratha , as part of Triple J 's AWOL Series . The band was supported by The Grates and Muph N Plutonic , and various local acts . While in Karratha , Fanning and Coghill visited Gumala Mirnuwarni , a local school in Roebourne that encourages children to stay in school . 
