Description
DESCRIPTION
Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand's south island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain't that a kick? You just never know. Formed around the nucleus of Austen McMillian, Matthew Plunkett (ex-Trendees) & Lisa Preston (Nux Vomica, The Portage) a couple years back, they've been stacking up the hits and on Major Works, it's time to cash in. There's 18 tracks here and Cuticles chew through 'em with abandon. Someone just yelled out from the attic next door, "Sounds like the Pastels, with guns!" One could make a case for the South Island Sound coursing through their veins (they do live there after all), but the sheer abandon-pop that gushes off the grooves, it's hard not to be reminded of those two, great, David Mitchell helmed Auckland outfits, The Exploding Budgies & Goblin Mix. They might all drink the same water, who knows? But it sure feels good to get brain-stung again by the salty rimes off the Otago Coast. Long may they howl.
TracksCredits
1 1-Mattress
2 2-Collecting Feathers
3 3-Helping Out My Dad
4 4-Architect
5 5-Know Not What
6 6-Cheese in My Brain
7 7-FB Guy Is Crude
8 8-Wind
9 9-Rabbit Fur Lined Leather Glove
10 Side B 10-Democracy of Dictatorship
11 11-Respect the Builders
12 12-Holiday Cracks
13 13-Afterlife
14 14-Gasp Aghast
15 15-Pile
16 16-Radio Hams
17 17-Maternity Eternity
18 18-Steal My Statue
