I remember the first time I dropped the needle on the wax on this record, this eerie sense of some thing awe inspiring overcame me with the guitars that sounded like a million distorting at once but melodic at the same time, with angelic voices, that were foretelling of a cold robot world where all the love's been taken away, OK Computer a good 7 years ahead of that album's time. I can't say what a highlight is on this album, just when I thought the track I heard was the most mindblowing experience I had the next one clobbered my skull. If you want a sound imagine what My bloody Valentine's Loveless should have sounded like with the right production amplified 10 times and mixed with something otherworldy. It's a definite concept album like OK Computer, sometimes I wonder if the guys in Radiohead were influenced by this album at all lyrically. This record is only rivaled by the album Tanker, but even that album is a distant second to this one. The Bailter Space hasn't ever been able to match this one, and I haven't seen a band yet pass it although the Beatles, Swervedriver, and Sugar come close. Pick this album up, whenever you're down listen to this album and realize what amazing things humans can create when they hit on all cylinders. Whoever from Option wrote "defiantly murky" should be hung from their toenails.
The purpose of this blog is to expose you to the unique and unrepeatable New Zealand scene known as "Dunedin Sound" that emerged in New Zealand in the early eighties. This space takes over from wonderful blogs that in their time served to make known to the world some of the most significant bands and records of that period. The present collection is dedicated to all those kiwi bands -many of them already forgotten- who, without knowing it, wrote a very important page in the history of music.
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