V/A - Kiwi Animals: Future/ Primitive Aotearoa LP (Strangelove Music)

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V/A - Kiwi Animals: Future/ Primitive Aotearoa LP (Strangelove Music)

NZ$45.00

1. Kim Blackburn - Lizards in love

2. The Kiwi Animal - Woman & Man Have Balance

3. Rupert - Soul Brothers

4. Stiff Herbert - I Could Hit the Ceiling

5. Drone - Nothing Dominant

6. Norma O'Malley - Some Tame Gazelle

7. Headless Chickens - Throwback

8. Blam Blam Blam - Respect

9. Roger Knox - Whole Weird World

10. Tom Ludvigson & Graeme Gash - Uallang Jnr

11. Ballare - Dancing

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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. Channeling 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… Distribution NZ: Ben & Isla - strangelovemusicltd@gmail.com Australia: Efficient Space - michaelkucyk@gmail.com ROW: Word & Sound - kai@wordandsound.net

‘Kiwi Animals’ is a personal catalog of local oddities; affectionately recasting the 1980’s New Zealand Top 40 in a parallel universe of misfit pop, gonzo-tronics & voodoo-waves.

Channeling South Pacific gothic sensibilities and edge of world melancholia, the album highlights unexpected electronic tangents from iconic NZ groups Blam Blam Blam & Headless Chickens.

It dredges the C-90 revelations of art avante-gardists’ Drone & Kim Blackburn, along with the bittersweet pop of Rupert & Norma O’Malley. There’s the infectious minimal wave of Ballare and a reprised 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 the various disparate seams of a local indie label awakening, ‘Kiwi Animals’ congeals with future/primitive ingenuity and an underlying Antipodean pop mischievousness…

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