Verlaines 10 O'Clock In The Afternoon Debut Flying Nun
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The first 12" record by these New Zealanders is a great 6 song EP. From Trouser Press:
"By the time some indie bands finally catch the attention of major labels, it's often too late — they've already used up their best material and shot their creative wad. Such, happily, has not been the case with New Zealand's Verlaines. Following a series of promising but inconsistent import and indie albums the group inked a deal with Warner Bros.-distributed Slash and proceeded to release the two finest albums of its career.
Named after the French symbolist poet and fronted by a classical music student, the Verlaines hail from Dunedin, New Zealand, the same hometown as the Chills and the Clean. From the band's first single, "Death and the Maiden" (inspired by an Edvard Munch painting), poetry and high art have had a large impact on singer/songwriter/multi- instrumentalist Graeme Downes' approach to rock music. Besides his anguished, mournful voice, the trio's sound is characterized by furious electric guitar strumming and deft time shifts."
$3.50 Media Mail, $7.00 Priority in US. Combined shipping available, just ask.
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