Sneaky Feelings

Along with the Able Tasmans, perhaps the most consistently underrated Flying Nun band. They don't have the ragged goofball drone of early Clean; in fact, they don't really fit the archetype of the Dunedin Sound at all. It'd be tempting to describe them as power pop, but that implies a degree of muscularity they rarely show. Perhaps 'sixties-tinged popular music bearing faint traces of the Sound of Young Scotland' would be a more apt (if less snappy) tag.

Here's three songs from their three albums, none included on their recent(ish) best of, Positively George Street.

Sneaky Feelings - In the Shape of a Heart
Sneaky Feelings - It's So Easy
Sneaky Feelings - Someone Else's Eyes

Stephen (David Kilgour)

My laptop was poorly, now its pallid plastic bosom is heaving with vitality. Anyway, onwards.

Stephen was David Kilgour in disguise, pretty much. 'Featuring future members of Chug', as it might say on a cover sticker with very limited marketing potential. David Kilgour was meant to be playing at the Silent Movie Theatre this Thursday. Now he's not, but there's still a film about him.

Stephen - Loved by You
Stephen - Little Audrey
Stephen - Don't Now Why

Able Tasmans Week! (part four)

From The Shape of Dolls EP and Store in a Cool Place.

The Able Tasmans - The Shape of Dolls
The Able Tasmans - My Name is Peter Keen
The Able Tasmans - Mary Tyler Moore

Able Tasmans week! (part three)

Three from Hey Spinner.

The Able Tasmans - Dileen
The Able Tasmans - Wednesday (She's Coming 'Round)
The Able Tasmans - Theory of Continual Disappointment

Able Tasmans week! (part two)

More from A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down.

The Able Tasmans - Sour Queen
The Able Tasmans - Fa Fa Fa Fa
The Able Tasmans - Virtues Asunder

Able Tasmans week! (part one)

From A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down (out of print, like the rest of their stuff). Mystifyingly perceived as a second-tier Flying Nun band when they are, perhaps, the best.

The Able Tasmans - What Was That Thing You Said?
The Able Tasmans - I See Now Where
The Able Tasmans - And We Swam the Magic Bay