Chris Knox & The Nothing is the name of the NZ music scene stalwart's ninth album in a sporadic series starting with '81's 'Songs For Cleaning Guppies' & the most recent,2000's 'Beat'. BUT... this one is different... for three reasons... Chris Knox & The Nothing is a band - for the first time since Toy Love 25 years ago, Chris Knox has enlisted the assistance of a couple of musician types: Stefan Neville (aka Pumice) on drums & Jol Mulholland (Gasoline Cowboys) on bass. Their interaction has revitalized Knox & he admits he found his songs being taken into often unexpected sonic & rhythmic areas - and thats without mentioning the involvement also of the Antimatter Horns & No Strings string section! Chris Knox & the Nothing was recorded in a studio - for the first time in a quarter century a Chris Knox album was NOT wholly created by Knox in a small room with way too much ambient noise from the neighbouring construction. Thats right! It's NOT a home recording.. well, now that everybody's doing it at home in much the way Tall Dwarfs & Knox pioneered way back in the early '80's, Knox felt it time for a change - aiming for a late '60's feel. 'Chris Knox & The Nothing' is Knox's first solo album to NOT be on Flying Nun - feeling a need for change on all fronts, he decided to take the D.I.Y. approach he's always favoured to a new area: that of manufacture & distribution. So this is the first release on his own A Major label (pun intended) . 17 songs with something for every taste - 'Outta Here' for big rock fans; 'Darkest Star' for wistful lovers; 'Cordeoline' for party animals; lead single & student radio fave 'those Great Big Puppy Eyes' for those lusting pure uberdynamic melodic pop.
