Description

Strangelove's personal Inventory of NZ 1980's odd pop; 'Kiwi Animals' recasts the local charts in a parallel universe of misfit melodics, gonzo-tronics & strange waves. 

Channelling South Pacific voodoo and edge of world melancholia, the album highlights electronic tangents from iconic NZ groups Blam Blam Blam & Headless Chickens. It dredges the cassette revelations of art avante-gardists' Drone & Kim Blackburn, alongside bittersweet moments from Rupert & Norma O'Malley. 

There's the infectious minimal wave of Ballare and a reprised electro-boogie dance suite (?!) from Tom Ludvigson & Graeme Gash. The furthest depths of Flying Nun's catalog are also plundered- a brilliant earworm from Stiff Herbert and a mysterious "Roger" Knox birthday promo. 

Mining disparate seams of a local indie label awakening, the various tangents of 'Kiwi Animals' congeal with a future/primitive sensibility and an underlying Antipodean mischievousness…

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Lizards In Love04:06
  • 2.Woman & Man Have Balance03:23
  • 3.Soul Brothers03:51
  • 4.I Could Hit The Ceiling02:16
  • 5.Nothing Dominant03:57
  • 6.Some Tame Gazelle01:46

B

  • 1.Throwback03:14
  • 2.Respect03:41
  • 3.Whole Weird World03:41
  • 4.Ulläng Jnr.03:35
  • 5.Dancing03:33

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