Neapolitan

Chirs Knox hhmmm, I dont't really recall the name or hearing anything by him, or so I thought until I heard the fifth track "Not Given Lightly." I've heard the song before, however I don't know where, perhaps I've heard the song in plug.dj. Chirs Knox is from New Zealand. I've seen that the album was release on label that I am familiar, Flying Nun Records, based in Christchurch. That label release material from bands that were part of the Dunedin Sound, and they are somewhat synonymous. Flying Nun Records have an amazing roster e.g. The Bats, The Chills, The Clean, Taco Cat and The Verlaines to name but a few recorded on that label.

Don't expect to hear the "jangle" guitar of the Dunedin Sound because its connection with Flying Nun Records. Chris Knox has more of a "lo-fi" sound. Maybe even a "lower-fi" sound compared to other lo-fi bands. The guitar on this album is heard with either over-drive or with dirty distortion. He is somewhere between the vibe of VU and the blah delivery of Beat Happening, with the lo-fi-ness of using a Casio keyboard in the same vein of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

I wrote most of the album review in my usual manner of being constantly sidetrack with a bunch of other things - reading & commenting in other thread and going back and forth between the album and other music I wanted to hear. I didn't solely listen to this album straight at one go. And perhaps that is a proper way to listen to an album. However there are very few times I do listen to an album straight through. So I am missing whether there are lulls in the album or whether the album taxes ones patients.

Wanna!! has a chord progression of a Chills song, with flippity-flap sound of #9 off the White album.
There is more backward sounds on Grand Mal.
Voyeur has more of a Violent Femmes meets Sunforest feel to it.

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