Music Media, by The Kiwi Animal

Music Media

by The Kiwi Animal

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1.	Union Song 02:02	buy track
2.	Assassin 01:42	buy track
3.	Blue Morning 02:18	buy track
4.	Time Of The Leaves 03:36	buy track
5.	Radio One 05:23	buy track
6.	Every Word Is A Prayer 01:51	buy track
7.	Just How Close 02:29	buy track
8.	I Love You 03:36	buy track
9.	Rhythm 02:13	buy track
10.	Crusader 04:25	buy track
11.	Making Tracks 02:17	buy track
12.	Performance Peace 02:48	buy track

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Pre-order, release date: November 1st, 2019

DR 40

Digital Regress's foray into the fabled NZ underground hops over to the North Island for two exquisite pieces of acoustic DIY and shadowy, cracked pastoralia.

After a few years spleen venting at the front of Wellington art brutes Shoes This High, Brent Hayward struck out on his own, self-releasing a few EPs as Smelly Feet before forming The Kiwi Animal with Julie Cooper in 1982. The duo released their first album, Music Media, on Massage Records (their own imprint) in 1984.

Billing itself "New Acoustic Music," the Kiwi Animal's debut is a set of introverted and austere yet lambent folk songs. Textural, gently hypnotic guitar chords anchor minimal arrangements, as Hayward and Cooper's entwined vocals – think Pip Proud meets The Vaselines - project paranoia and forlorn, diffident cool. Wry, imagistic lyrics somewhere between the stoned political economy of D. Boon and the head-fuck soliloquies of Robert Ashley complete The Kiwi Animal effect.

The music of The Kiwi Animal, moody and intelligent and often abruptly gentle, works subcutaneously, propelled by guitars that churn and weave – no jangle here – and a his 'n' hers vocal delivery for the ages. Digital Regress is happy to make these essentially perfect records available again.

Pressing info: deluxe-gloss jackets with 100 copies on white vinyl and 400 on black.

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released October 25, 2019

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