Search & Destroy: Flying Nun

The Chills song is especially good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQmy1S-08kw

Ben Howe has taken over as 'General Manager' of Flying Nun - operations moved to AKL - sharing space or building with Arch Hill recordings - Roger Shephard still involved with label as 'consultant and shareholder' - whatever that means.

Info here: http://thecorner.co.nz/2012/09/19/changes-on-the-way-for-flying-nun-records/

Anyhow hopefully this means a smoother operation and more music. Sharpie Crows (on F Nun) and Street Chant (On Arch Hill) are pretty great. Popstrangers a bit of a rudux for my tastes but make pretty slick facsimilies of that 90's sound.

So.... they're not Flying Nun, but I thought this would be the best place to draw attention to the Popstrangers LP on Carpark. Plenty of NZers excited about this release.
Best NZ pop single since the Chills' Heavenly pop hit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQs6rGE_1cc

Given that Popmatters (yeah...) shit themselves with excitement over this, I thought there'd at least be some discussion:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/167655-popstrangers-antipodes/

I say: really really really good.

Looks like both the Clean's Vehicle and a Bird Nest Roys comp are out this week! Especially glad about the former cos I played my old copy a couple of months back and it skipped all over the place. Great album too!

Vehicle is one of the all-time great strummy guitar albums, up there with Wedding Present and Unrest.

I disagree! I strongly believe it pisses all over those guys

It's truly great...and forthcoming review somewhere soon.

good news - vehicle might be my fave clean release, even moreso than the early stuff. amazing guitar sound.

listening to it now, oh man, it is so good. best band.

Oh come on, those strummy Wedding Present and Unrest albums are awesome, there's room for everyone here.

pl don't bespoil this thread
w/ the wedding pres

(people don't like prime Wedding Present? Bizarro.)

Oh don't worry, there are plenty of WP fans who love the Clean too.

Personally, I found Vehicle not as compelling as the early stuff and have a real soft spot for Modern Rock!

Yep - agree with Gerald M-B. I like Vehicle of course but it does not have the dark, anarchic kind of vibe that early Clean has - would like to see Compilation reissued with this kind of lavish treatment personally.

Isn't the first disc of Anthology a complete set of early Clean? That's my go-to over Compilation.

Modern Rock has "Secret Place," right? That's a nice song. "Vehicle" I always thought was where Robert's Bats-y writing started to be just as prominent as Kilgour's writing, imo.

I find Anthology unwieldy - I like the more concise and more coherent nature of Compilation - I think most of the tracks from the earlier volume are on the latter though. Anthology has too many of those goofy song experiments on it for me.

Cosign on preferring Compilation to Anthology ("Art School"!); was a Singles Going Steady kinda comp for lots of Kiwis.

Anyway, new & v.v.v.good on F.Nun is the new Sharpie Crows, though it's more in the line of the Skeptics/Gordons end of the label's history. Also: Skeptics documentary, Sheen of Gold at this year's film festival!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PRHndjg2Fw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX2u7CQSQlU

Skeptics doco looks great. I didn't like that Sharpie Crows 'Spread' tune so much but the new one Bully 4 You is wicked amazingness.

http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/music/1084/Bully-4-U.utr

Also check new Chills - no longer with F Nun I think but always with them anyway.

https://soundcloud.com/#firerecords/the-chills-molten-gold

Promising signs I think - hopefully Martin can get his stuff togethor to actually release a proper album. Everyone else is doing it - why can't he?

Hinklepicker square otm here, only non Compilation Anthology track I really love is Platypus, but Art School/Hold Onto the Rail omissions are unforgivable.

Odditties version of Thums Off is p great imo though.

I love "Some Fantasy" by DoubleHappys.

So obviously not really Flying Nun, but there's no Toy Love specific thread so -- sad news to report about Jane Walker's passing:

https://www.facebook.com/AudioCultureNZ/photos/a.506398366094767/1934325256635397/?type=1&theater