Wellington music month 3: getting noizy
Skallander - The Camels
Take the welly dub ethic, mix it up with some guitar and ambient noise, and you end up with this brilliant slab of aural inventiveness. One of the many projects to come from the musical mind of the very talented and massively under-rated Bevan Smith.
Shihad - Killjoy
Best NZ rock album. Ever. Nuff said.
The Bilge Festival - Cape Goat
The good side of Wellington wacky rock. Two mad singer/songwriters and a super-tight rhythm section, create an opus of bizarre yet funky songs. Wildebeest a go-go!!
Over the Atlantic - Junica
Another Bevan Smith collaboration - this is like a Wellingtonian take on what the definitive New Order album might sound like. The noise wig-out on the last track 'Fly to the States' is the best bit of distortion you'll ever hear. (Video below is the track '35 Black & White')...
Debris - She's the Bomb
Yeah, I played on it. And technically we're all from Christchurch. But we were living here at the time, it was recorded at the infamous Church on Frederick St., and it's f**kin' awesome.
'35 Black & White', from the Over the Atlantic album Junica.
Well, under-rated in that he's virtually unknown in his hometown beyond a small band of knowledgeable music fans.
Bevan Smith underrated? Never by me! Though of his collaborative projects, my favourite would have to be Patio (with Jet Jaguar).