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Dead Dog in Port Chalmers (1991)
An Xpressway single.
David Mitchell & Denise Roughan who have a plethora of New Zealand band experience between the two of them but whose musical life intersected most notably with the 3Ds.
3Ds were one of my personal favorite Flying Nun bands and I have a Crowther Audio Hotcake overdrive pedal because I read somewhere that David Mitchell used one. (And rightly so, it's a beast and doesn't lose any of the low end of your guitar signal like your average overdrive pedal.)
This lo-fi excursion is as close as Xpressway got to folk music.
It is for folks after all.
The Ghost Club (1996)
Five years later and they followed the previous up with another one and moving to London where they formed a formed a trio they called Ghost Club like this record who put out two really fucking cool discs that kind of hit the sweet spot for me.
Perfect music for the days gather into a cold semi-permanent gloomy dusk for a few months.
David and Denise were cool indeed. "Beautiful Things" might be one of the most beautiful things that Flying Nun put to wax. David's visual art is also very cool.
ReplyDeleteI have the two Ghost Club full lengths but not these singles, so I thank you very much.