Stephen was essentially David Kilgour's project during the last years of the Clean's career, and as a less ambitious "side project," the band felt free to play loosely with the typical pop jangle of New Zealand rock. The result is a body of work that practically defines the simple and gorgeous blend of jangling guitars and beautiful melodies that became a Flying Nun trademark. The label's re-issue of Radar of Small Dogs includes the EP of that name, as well as the Dumb EP and a few live tracks. Dumb, the earliest of the recordings, sticks with the stripped-down jangle that typifies the band; Radar of Small Dogs is slightly more polished and pop-oriented, varying the group's sound and occasionally growing denser than the earlier recordings ("Mary Had a Steamboat"). The collection stands as a lovely example of New Zealand pop, and will doubtlessly be appealing not only to followers of the scene, but the uninitiated as well.
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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