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I’ll admit it right up front: I love Kiwi-pop. I love Flying Nun for all the great bands but, more importantly, for all the other great bands they inspired. So it is pretty awesome that of-the-moment imprint Captured Tracks (whose roster includes such acts as DIIV, Wild Nothing and Beach Fossils) has partnered with the seminal New Zealand label to reissue some of their vast and often amazing back catalog. And this is coming on the heals of Captured Tracks unearthing the Cleaners From Venus discography. Bravo! The first records to get the royal treatment are The Clean’s epic debut, Vehicle, and this anthology from a very short-lived six piece band that has all but disappeared from the indie world’s collective memory. Hopefully this eighteen track release will correct that.

During their brief tenure, they released one LP in 1987, one EP and a 7″. All are included here along with a cool live song tacked on at the end. The first thing one notes about Bird Nest Roys is, of course, the jangly guitars that signify the Dunedin sound. Opening track “Five Weetbix And Toast” sounds like something Tobin Sprout might have listened to in his formative years. The vocals are unique in that the Roys employed a dedicated backing singer and the quaint harmonies are spell-binding. “Alien” is next up and it is one of the few songs that has not aged particularly well – rock solid chors notwithstanding. “Loving Time” chugs along like an outtake from Wire’s second album. The single “Jaffa Boy” has a terrific guitar hook and although I have no idea what a Jaffa Boy is I found myself singing along just the same. There’s cow-punk (“Bided”) and Mission Of Burma style post-punk (“Michael Jones”). The original LP ended with the Half Japanese nodding “Wads Of Pork Fat.” That’s a lot of territory to cover. And that is what really separates this band from its Kiwi breathren – diversity. Maybe because they were from the North Island and Christchurch and Dunedin are a long ways off on the distant South Island, but either way they possessed a greater depth to their sound than most.
Reissue compiles Aukland band’s entire recorded output and reminds us of Flying Nun Records’ enormous impact.

Tracklisting:
01 – Five Weetbix And Toast
02 – Alien
03 – Loving Time
04 – Jaffa Boy
05 – Bided
06 – Joringel
07 – Me Want Me Get Me Need Me Have Me Love
08 – Michael Jones
09 – Who Is The Silliest Rossi?
10 – Love
11 – Wads Of Pork Fat
12 – Bus Stop
13 – Ain’t Mutatin’
14 – Batcave
15 – Severed Days
16 – Cresta
17 – Wormcat Stones
18 – I Need Your Love

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Indie Rock
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2013 
Speelduur: 50 minuten
Cover: Front , Back en Insides zijn in de RARs verwerkt