Torch the Moon is the fifth studio album by Australian band The Whitlams, released by Black Yak through Warner in 2002.

[4] Initial prints of Torch the Moon contained a second CD, entitled Side 4.

Finally, a fourth print of the CD saw a combination of the fifteen-track release as well as an exclusive 'Rarities' CD, collecting B-sides and unreleased tracks from the last nine years.

The track list ran as follows: ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

The first verse of "Kate Kelly",[8] a song about Kate Kelly, younger sister of Ned Kelly, may have inspired Australian author David Hunt in his 2016 book "True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 2" in which he also describes Joe Byrne as having been "strung up" like a "marionette".