VA - Kiwi Animals: Future/Primitive Aotearoa 82-91
STRANGELOVE MUSIC
Balearic / Folk / AORNew Vinyl LP+ INSERT / 24.50 EUR / Staff Picks
Here comes a fascinating collection of odd pop, world music, folk and experimental sounds from Starngelove. It is a personal inventory of music from 1980’s New Zealand and hums with strange spirits, nocturnal voodoo and shamanistic melancholia that channels South Pacific magic into 11 hugely otherworldly tracks. There are avant-gard artists like Drone & Kim Blackburn, wave tinged disco cuts from Blam Blam Blam and proto-electro jams from Ludvigson & Gash and their “Uallang Jnr”. Stiff Herbert offers a hugely catchy earworm, while Rupert’s “Soul Brothers” is a warm, enchanting take on soul music. As far as musical adventures go, few are finer than this one.