Chris Matthews' guitar and voice are at the forefront and the mood is altogether more rocking. Greedy's a dramatic album, with its songs wrapped in a blend of scary samples, crunching loops and lyrical nightmares. The end result is what the Headless Chickens have always managed to achieve on record: in today's electrode-up post-grunge world, Greedy still blurs the lines people want to put up around musical styles and -- crooning, sneering, yelling through a megaphone -- Chris Matthews still sounds like the most convincing frontman around. Fiona McDonald's all but gone; she left the band after recording the hit single "George" and that song is her only lead vocal on this album, although she sings one duet ("Chicken Little") and contributes backing vocals to a few other tunes.
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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