Name: Kiwi Animals: Future/ Primitive Aotearoa
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SL105

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-07-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4251648413271

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Various

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Strangelove

For fans of Flying Nun more quirky / electronic output., contains songs reissued on vinyl for the first time from cult Kiwi bands Blam Blam Blam, Headless Chickens and Chris ‘Roger’ Knox.

Strangelove’s personal Inventory of NZ 1980’s odd pop; <i>Kiwi Animals</i> recasts the local charts in a parallel universe of misfit melodics, gonzo-tronics and strange waves. Channelling South Pacific voodoo and edge of world melancholia, the album highlights electronic tangents from iconic NZ groups Blam Blam Blam and Headless Chickens.

It dredges the cassette revelations of art avante-gardists’ Drone and Kim Blackburn, alongside bittersweet moments from Rupert and Norma O’Malley. There’s the infectious minimal wave of Ballare and a reprised electro-boogie dance suite (?!) from Tom Ludvigson and 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.

Kiwi Animals: Future/ Primitive Aotearoa

Music GB